"Happy Ancient Poetry" was developed and launched by the Center for Chinese Language and Chinese Language Education Research, The Education University of Hong Kong. This program meets the needs of learning ancient poems and essays in the current Hong Kong education. Through the application of information technology, it refers to the key suggested chapters of the Education Bureau, and provides interesting learning content for 50 ancient poems suggested chapters. Bringing in the elements of reading, explaining, singing, and playing can stimulate students' interest in learning ancient poetry and improve their reading literacy.
Main functions and features:
• Personalized recommendation: recommend corresponding ancient poems according to students' interests and hobbies.
• Reading ancient poems: Provide standard readings in both Cantonese and Putonghua, and the screen will simultaneously display the read poems, and students can read them by themselves against the standard pronunciation; provide playback and sharing functions, students can listen to them by themselves or pass them on to teachers and friends.
• Interpretation of ancient poems: Focus on related content of ancient poems: through interesting life scenes and plots, explain verses, words, themes, backgrounds of poets, etc.
• Sing ancient poems: let students experience the beauty of ancient poems through music, there are two versions (the same melody) in Cantonese and Pu-Pong. Users can listen to music and then karaoke.
• Play ancient poems: mainly to revisit the content and deepen the impression of the key points of the content. Each ancient poem provides a mini-game with 3-5 questions, providing review and correct options.