Speech contest winners study in U.K.
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The top seven winners of last year's H.I.H. Prince Takamado Trophy 58th All Japan Inter-Middle School English Oratorical Contest have completed a summer program in Britain that they participated in at the invitation of the HSBC group.
The seven, five of whom are now high school students, headed for Britain on July 21 after visiting the group's Tokyo office on the previous day. They took part in the Buckswood Summer School program for two weeks at King Edward's School on the outskirts of London. They took English classes in the morning and later enjoyed various activities with their new classmates, who were from various countries in Europe and the Middle East.
"Classes at the summer school were quite different from those in Japan," reflected Kanon Miyamoto, the first-place winner of the competition and a third-year middle school student from Fukuoka Prefecture. "I found it the biggest surprise that the students were answering the teachers' questions one after another. It was difficult for the Japanese participants to do so, but I should've been more aggressive."
The seven visited the HSBC headquarters in London before coming back home on Aug. 8.
The Yomiuri Shimbun and The Daily Yomiuri are among the sponsors of the competition.
(Aug. 24, 2007)
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The top seven winners of last year's H.I.H. Prince Takamado Trophy 58th All Japan Inter-Middle School English Oratorical Contest have completed a summer program in Britain that they participated in at the invitation of the HSBC group.
The seven, five of whom are now high school students, headed for Britain on July 21 after visiting the group's Tokyo office on the previous day. They took part in the Buckswood Summer School program for two weeks at King Edward's School on the outskirts of London. They took English classes in the morning and later enjoyed various activities with their new classmates, who were from various countries in Europe and the Middle East.
"Classes at the summer school were quite different from those in Japan," reflected Kanon Miyamoto, the first-place winner of the competition and a third-year middle school student from Fukuoka Prefecture. "I found it the biggest surprise that the students were answering the teachers' questions one after another. It was difficult for the Japanese participants to do so, but I should've been more aggressive."
The seven visited the HSBC headquarters in London before coming back home on Aug. 8.
The Yomiuri Shimbun and The Daily Yomiuri are among the sponsors of the competition.
(Aug. 24, 2007)