English Speaking Contest Winners

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Contest Details

The 20th Grand Final (2024)

Category: Impromptu Speech

Ranking
Name
Topic
1
LEE Ji Youn
If classrooms had wings, how would you make good use of this capability?
2
MUHAMMAD-ZULKIFL
If you could create a school for superheroes, what subjects would they study and why?
3
SHOON Lae Lae Oo
If you had the power to eliminate one emotion from humans, which would you choose and why?
First Prize (2024) - LEE Ji Youn
Second Prize (2024) - MUHAMMAD-ZULKIFL
Third Prize (2024) - SHOON Lae Lae Oo

The 19th Grand Final (2023)

Category: Movie Monologue

Ranking
Name
Topic
1
HU Xinyue
The Great Dictator
2
GRIBOV Yemmanuil
Apocalypse Now
3
UNG Cheng Un
Twelve Angry Men

Category: Impromptu Speech

Ranking
Name
Topic
1
OLA Bamidele Emmanuel
Which professions are losing relevancy today? Are they worth preserving?
2
CHONG Michael Yat Tsun
Real wealth is never measured in money or possessions.
3
KULHARI Vikramaditya
Ill health begins in the mind.
Merit
ZHAO Yu
How has food delivery changed our food consumption?
Merit
ZHOU Yile
Can education cure ignorance?
Merit
LEE Sum Yee
Can we survive in pre-technology era?
Winner of Movie Monologue (2023) - HU Xinyue
Winner of Impromptu Speech (2023) - OLA Bamidele Emmanuel

The 18th Grand Final (2021)

Ranking
Name
Topic
1
YAU Man Ting
Little Women 2019
2
LUO Yueming
Umbridge's speech
3
WONG Po Chan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Merit
CHEUNG Hin Yu Jeanie
Human Beings Are A Virus - "You Are a Plague and We Are the Cure"
Merit
KWOK Tak Yue Debbie
Girl in the Cafe (2005, UK)
Merit
LEE Chiu Yin
Rosie Dunne monologue, Love, Rosie (2014)

First Prize (2021) - YAU Man Ting

The 17th Grand Final (2019)

Ranking
Name
Topic
1
LEE Chiu Yin, Charlene
I, Tonya (2017)
2
TIN Yuen Chun
One True Thing (1998)
3
KWAN Ching Man, Tina
Never Let Me Go (2010)
Merit
CHUNG Kwan Ting, Jasmine
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Merit
HO Chung Hei, Jaime
Mr. Robot (2015)
Merit
LIU Shiyan
The Notebook (2004)
Merit
NG Yee Sin, Tiffany
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
Merit
WANG Fan, Gavin
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Merit
WONG Kin Long
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Merit
WONG Lap Cho, Lapis
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Merit
WONG Po Chan, Alice
Sweethearts (1997)
Merit
WONG Wai Ching, Joanna
The Great Dictator (1940)

First Prize (2019) - Lee Chiu Yin, Charlene

Second Prize (2019) - Tin Yuen Chun

Third Prize (2019) - Kwan Ching Man, Tina

The 16th Grand Final (2018)

Ranking
Name
Topic
1
CHUNG Kwan Ting
East of Eden (1955)
2
LEE Chiu Yin Charlene
Silver Linings Playbook (2013)
3
YAU Wan Ting Oliver
I Just Sued the School System (2016)
Merit
BO Le Kim
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Merit
CHUK Yung Wa
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Merit
HO Chung Hei Jaime
Sherlock : The abominable bride (2016)
Merit
LAM Yue Hei
Nuts (1987)
Merit
LAU Wai Ki Dicky
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Merit
LIU Yi-Hsuan
Antz (1998)
Merit
URSTEMBAYEVA Tomiris
Changeling (2008)

First Prize (2018) - Chung Kwan Ting

Second Prize (2018) - Lee Chiu Yin Charlene

Third Prize (2018) - Yau Wan Ting Oliver

The 15th Grand Final (2017)

Ranking
Name
Topic
1
WONG Wai Ching
Dead Poets Society (1989)
2
Samuel Vinod KHIATANI
GoodFellas (1990)
3
KWAN Ching Man, Tina
The Blair Witch Project (1999)

First Prize (2017) - Wong Wai Ching