Wang Siyi, a student in the Department of Portuguese and Cheong Kun Lun College at the University of Macau (UM) recently won the first prize in the 22nd Portuguese Speech Contest jointly organised by the UM Department of Portuguese and Macao Foundation (FM).
Contestants from various higher educational institutions participated in the event, including Macao Polytechnic University (MPU), Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) and City University of Macau.
The contest aimed to encourage outstanding university students of Portuguese studies to apply their language skills beyond the classroom and improve their proficiency in Portuguese, according to UM.
The topic of this year’s contest was a line from the poetry collection Clepsidra by the renowned Portuguese poet Camilo Pessanha: “Vou a medo na aresta do futuro, embebido em saudades do presente” (“I walk trembling on the edge of the future, lost in thoughts of the present”).
This year’s jury comprised TDM Portuguese News and Programmes Director Gilberto Lopes, local lawyer and Association for the Promotion of Macanese Education’s president Miguel de Senna Fernandes, as well as Jornal Tribuna de Macau Senior Journalist Vítor Rebelo.
The jury evaluated the contestants based on several criteria, including relevance to the topic, structure and coherence, language proficiency, delivery, intonation and presentation.
Wang (pictured, right) received the first prize from FM, while MUST student Wan Yushen received the second prize from Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU) and Jornal Tribuna de Macau, with Lai Huangbin, another MUST student, receiving the third prize from the Orient Foundation and BNU.
Source and Photo: UM
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