This presentation was first made on March 5, 2013 at Caritas Wu Cheng Chung Secondary School, Hong Kong. It (a) alerts students to features of 'Hong Kong English', (b) invites them to make acceptability judgments, and (c) encourages them to sharpen their language awareness.

1. Englishes in
Hong Kong
Dr Benjamin Au Yeung
Dr Paul Sze
The Chinese University of Hong
Kong
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Who are we?

3. Is this
English?
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Milk tea?

9. What do these
sentences
mean?
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17. Your turn …
How do you
correct …?
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I very like
chocolate.

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I have a good
news to tell you.

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How do you call this
(in English)?

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24. Are they
saying
English?
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How do you say ‘Set E’?
‘Set yee’? ‘Set ee’?

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How do you say ‘e-Channel’?

27. How do you
say these
letters?
F, H, L, R,
Z
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How do you say ‘BBQ’?

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32. Hang on!
Can’t we have Hong Kong
English? After all, they have
Singaporean English.
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33. Language
Awareness
Do you notice anything
unusual in the following
examples?
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40. Is it all right to
say …?
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I will now give the
time to …

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See you at CU.

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Acknowledgment
 We took most of the pictures in this PPT
ourselves. A small number of them have
been taken from the Web and we have
not been able to trace the sources.
 The PPT was first used for a talk to students
at Caritas Wu Cheng Chung Secondary
School on March 5, 2013.
 benjamin@cuhk.edu.hk;
paulsze@cuhk.edu.hk