71st Speech Festival
Preparation Programme
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Primary 3
Solo verse Speaking SAmple
Seasons of trees
In spring
The trees
Are a beautiful sight
Dressed in blossom
Pink and white.
In summer
The trees
Are full of treats
Apples and pears
And cherries to eat.
In autumn
The trees
Are red and gold
And the leaves full down
As the days grow cold.
In winter
The trees
Are bare and plain
waiting for spring
To dress them again.
Primary 4
Solo verse Speaking SAmple
The Cupboard
I know a little cupboard,
With a teeny tiny key,
And there's a jar of Lollipops
For me, me, me.
It has a little shelf, my dear,
As dark as dark can be,
And there's a dish of Banbury Cakes
For me, me, me.
I have a small fat grandmamma,
With a very slippery knee,
And she's Keeper of the Cupboard,
With the key, key, key.
And when I'm very good, my dear,
As good as good can be,
There's Banbury Cakes, and Lollipops
For me, me, me.
Primary 5
Solo verse Speaking SAmple
Granny Granny Please Comb My Hair
Granny Granny
Please comb my hair
You always take your time
You always take such care
You take me sit on a cushion
Between your knees
You rub a little coconut oli
Parting my hair as gentle as a breeze
Mummy mummy
She’s always in a hurry-hurry
She pulls my hair
Sometimes she tugs
But granny
You have all the time in the world
And when you’ve finished
You always turn my head and say
“Now who’s a nice girl?"
maggie and milly and molly and may
by E. E. Cummings - 1894-1962
10
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea
Primary 6
Solo verse Speaking SAmple
Secondary 1
Solo verse Speaking SAmple
The Paint Box
by E. V. Rieu
"Cobalt and umber and ultramarine,
Ivory black and emerald green --
What shall I paint to give pleasure to you?"
"Paint for me somebody utterly new."
"I have painted you tigers in crimson and white."
"The colors were good and you painted aright."
"I have painted the cook and the camel in blue
And a panther in purple." "You painted them true.
"Now mix me a color that nobody knows,
And paint me a country where nobody goes.
And put in it people a little like you,
Watching a unicorn drinking the dew."
Secondary 2
Solo verse Speaking SAmple
The Moon
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall,
On streets and fields and harbour quays,
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.
The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
The howling dog by the door of the house,
The bat that lies in bed at noon,
All love to be out by the light of the moon.
But all of the things that belong to the day
Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way;
And flowers and children close their eyes
Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.
Secondary 3
Solo verse Speaking SAmple
Overheard on a Saltmarsh
by Harold Monro (1879-1932)
Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?
Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them?
Give them me.
No.
Give them me. Give them me.
No.
Then I will howl all night in the reeds,
Lie in the mud and howl for them.
Goblin, why do you love them so?
They are better than stars or water,
Better than voices of winds that sing,
Better than any man's fair daughter,
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.
Hush, I stole them out of the moon.
Give me your beads, I want them.
No.
I will howl in the deep lagoon
For your green glass beads, I love them so.
Give them me. Give them.
No.