Award-winning speech and drama experts here at i-Learner are available to train speech festival entrants in a wide array of classes. Our years of experience in this field has led to many of our students being awarded honors.
We run training courses starting from September each year and going right up to the date of your competition.
Take a look at the video and view testimonials from students who have trained with us recently.
Consultation with Teachers
For several years, we have provided a consultation service for teachers who are tackling the higher level texts with their students. Our consultation can help you to get to the deeper subtleties of these difficult play scripts, poems, and prose pieces. Our teachers can help by pointing out the shades of meaning and the points of irony in the texts in order for you to help prepare your students with a dramatic interpretation.
We can even record texts so that students can hear the words pronounced by native speakers, and with the deeper meanings of the piece brought to life. Listen to the examples below, from the 68th Speech Festival:
An Ideal Husband
Concealment
Please contact us via WhatsApp at 9049 3014 or email us at customer@i-learner.edu.hk to arrange a consultation at a time which suits you.
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Testimonials
I entered both English verse speaking and Bible reading in this competition. Preparation was intense: there was less than a month between seeing the publicity, deciding to enter, receiving the texts and the competition itself. As soon as I received the texts, I attended a special coaching lesson at i-Learner. It helped me a great deal!
My teacher was excellent. She carefully marked important points on my texts, made extensive notes, recorded readings for reference and corrected my mistakes. I had not managed to win in previous competitions, and her guidance made all the difference this time.
I learned many techniques. For example, I learned to support my voice with breath from the abdomen rather than relying on my throat. I had never known about that approach. Having visited church and found it peaceful, I had assumed that everything should be relaxed and slow. But the text mentioned prophets, mysteries and miracles. My teacher explained that without love, I could not convey their wonder and greatness. I realised that reading could express a rich range of feelings.
I tend to get nervous and read too quickly, overlooking important details such as the content. I have to remind myself to slow down. Now I imagine the scenes described in the text. In this poem, I imagined looking out of a window at a stormy sea and feeling afraid. I pictured my friends and family out there: were they in danger, and might they sink? This helped me put more feeling into my reading.
Without the i-Learner lesson, I would not have learned to support my voice or express such a range of emotions. I was delighted with my results and very grateful for my teacher’s guidance.
Competition results:
Primary P5–P6 English Bible Speaking: One Corinthians Chapter 13 Verse 2 — 1st Place
Primary P5–P6 English Verse Speaking: The Sound of the Wind (Christine Rosseti) — 2nd Place
