Objectives

• To raise awareness of what Standard English is.
• To encourage Singaporeans to consciously choose and use standard English in their daily lives.

Target Audience

1. Parents are important influencers as they can provide a conducive English language-learning environment at home.

2. Teachers are role models for students in schools.

3. Frontline staff are essential in projecting a positive and professional image of themselves and their organisations.

4. Youth have the power to influence their peers.

About the Speak Good English Movement

The Movement was launched in 2000 by then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong to:

1. Ensure Singaporeans recognise the importance of speaking Standard English
2. Encourage Singaporeans to speak Standard English

Starting from 2003, the Movement has kicked off annually with a launch followed by year-long programmes and activities, and has succeeded in raising awareness among Singaporeans that speaking good English matters in their work and personal lives.

Be Understood. Not only in Singapore, Malaysia and Batam – the message for Speak Good English Movement 2006/07 intended for Singaporeans to recognise and use standard English.

Partners such as British Council and the Ministry of Education ran programmes to build emotional literacy as well as foundational skills in grammar, spelling and pronunciation.

First Prize – Victoria Junior College

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Geylang Trail

Second Prize – Raffles Institution

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Singapore Pools

Third Prize – Hwa Chong Institution

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Walk in the Fields of Sungei Buloh

About Walk And Talk

British Council organised a ‘Walk and Talk’ competition during the year-end holidays in November 2006 to February 2007 to encourage Primary, Secondary and pre-university students to use expressive English.

The students with the best entries had a chance to work with tertiary-level design and technology students to create a short animation film of their recording. The animated films were then screened at a premiere showing at the Esplanade library in May 2007.

Winners walked away with MP3 players and all students received certificates of participation.

First Prize – Victoria School

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Celebrating Chinese New Year in Singapore

Second Prize – Raffles Institution

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The Hawker Centre – A Veritable Rojak!

Third Prize – Whitley Secondary School

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A Trip to Bugis

About Walk And Talk

British Council organised a ‘Walk and Talk’ competition during the year-end holidays in November 2006 to February 2007 to encourage Primary, Secondary and pre-university students to use expressive English.

The students with the best entries had a chance to work with tertiary-level design and technology students to create a short animation film of their recording. The animated films were then screened at a premiere showing at the Esplanade library in May 2007.

Winners walked away with MP3 players and all students received certificates of participation.

First Prize – St. Margaret’s Primary School

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Sunset at East Coast Beach

Second Prize – Henry Park Primary School

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Little Oasis of Green

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Sungei Buloh

Third Prize – Fuhua Primary School

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A Hawker Centre to Visit Before You Rest in Peace

About Walk And Talk

British Council organised a ‘Walk and Talk’ competition during the year-end holidays in November 2006 to February 2007 to encourage Primary, Secondary and pre-university students to use expressive English.

The students with the best entries had a chance to work with tertiary-level design and technology students to create a short animation film of their recording. The animated films were then screened at a premiere showing at the Esplanade library in May 2007.

Winners walked away with MP3 players and all students received certificates of participation.

More Than Words

Visitors can now vote for 6 of their favourite English words from a list of 60 words, put together by the students of British Council. They are then qualified to participate in a lucky draw for the grand prize of a pair of return tickets to UK.

Every 60th participant will win a prize. The contest will end on 3 July and Singapore’s Favourite Words will be announced on 11 July.

List of Words

Vote Now!

Don’t daydream any longer. Turn on your computer, get on the British Council website and start voting! Who knows, you might just get lucky and be in for a wild surprise!

Organised biennially, this national contest began in 1992, to promote the art of creative writing in the four major languages of Singapore – English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil. It has been and still is the only national literary writing competition to celebrate new writing for both short stories and poetry in all four major languages.

The Golden Point Award 2007 is co-organised by the National Arts Council and The Arts House and is sponsored by Singapore Press Holdings and the Singapore Press Holdings Foundation. It is a biennial writing competition that aims to achieve the following:

• Identify new creative writing talent
• Promote the art of creative writing
• Encourage talented local writers to strive for the highest level of literary skill
• Create a conducive environment for creative thinking and literary expression in Singapore

For more information on the GPA and its workshops, please visit The Arts House website.

British Council organised a ‘Walk And Talk’ competition during the year-end holidays in November 2006 to February 2007 to encourage Primary, Secondary and pre-university students to use expressive English.

Individual students or groups of students (up to 4 in a group) had to create a two-minute audio recording of a short walk in Singapore describing the sights, sounds, smells and especially feelings to the atmosphere of the walk.

The students with the best entries had a chance to work with tertiary-level design and technology students to create a short animation film of their recording. The animated films were then screened at a premiere showing at the Esplanade library in May 2007.

Winners walked away with MP3 players and all students received certificates of participation.

Watch the winning ‘Walk And Talk’ entries on our website!

• ‘Walk And Talk’ – Division 1 Winners
• ‘Walk And Talk’ – Division 2 Winners
• ‘Walk And Talk’ – Division 3 Winners

Winning entries are now being made into animated films. This competition was organised by The British Council in collaboration with Speak Good English Movement.

The Challenge

From November 2006 to January 2007, students armed with audio recorders took to the streets of Singapore. Their task was to record their accounts of the sights and the sounds they came across. Some did it on their own and others with a group of friends.

The competition was open to Primary, Secondary and pre-university students (Junior College and centralised institutes), with a winner and two runners-up for each of the three categories.

Exploring Media Senses

Animation is a wonderful art form. There is a great amount of freedom and potential in visualizing your ideas. It is not just about carefully choosing words, sounds and tone of voice to provide a lively, poetic and even dramatic impression of the locations in Singapore. Animation also offers an equal opportunity to be visually lively, poetic and dramatic.

Look Out for the Animated Films!

The winners have been invited to work with design students to make an animated film version of their walk.

The short films will be premiered at a special screening at the Esplanade Library on Sunday 27 May 2007, from 2PM to 4PM.

The programme for this end-of-project is as follows:

1. Introduction and welcome of guest-of-honour
2. Synopsis of the project and outcomes
3. Presentation entitled, “Exploring Media Senses”
4. Showcase of animated films
5. Prize Presentation

This competition was organised in collaboration with the Speak Good English Movement. Competition details are available on The British Council website.