2009/10: Impress. Inspire. Intoxicate.
Launch of Speak Good English Movement 2009!
The Speak Good English Movement 2009 was officially launched by Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on 28 August, marking our tenth year in encouraging Singaporeans to speak Standard English.
We had an afternoon of fun-filled activities lined up for the launch, held at LASALLE College of the Arts. And we had our guests to bring their inspiring, impressive or intoxicating quotes along to the launch for the activities.
Guests were given t-shirts with an empty speech bubble on it and our illustrators were on hand to help guests write their inspiring, impressive, and intoxicating quotes in them.
We also passed out martini glasses with word magnets in them which guests used to form their own creative quotes on our whiteboards! Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean used the magnets to form the poignant line – “From what we remember of family and friends grow tiny, sweet, sad and tender memories”.
Guests also queued patiently to get their caricatures drawn by our three caricature artists. Some even had their caricatures drawn by all three!
Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, our Guest-of-Honour, launched the Speak Good English Movement 2009 and Six Lives, a 12-episode online drama at
http://sixlives.sg. Guests had the chance to get a first look at the first episode on laptops after the launch.
This year, we are using familiar social media platforms such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook to bring you Six Lives, an online drama series that follows six very different friends as they plan for a wedding. Over the series, the six friends will uncover secrets about each other that will change their lives forever!
Six Lives will show the importance of communicating well and demonstrate how one can use language to impress, inspire and intoxicate through the familiar and sometimes humourous situations the six friends get themselves into.
Watch the Razor TV coverage of our launch:
Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean launches the Speak Good English Movement 2009 and Six Lives!
Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean speaks to the media.
Watch the rest of the Razor TV videos of our launch:
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