Youth, front line workers to be focus of "Speak Good English"
Movement
By Teresa Tang, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 24 July 2007 1652
hrs
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SINGAPORE: Youth and front line workers will be the focus of this
year's Speak Good English Movement.
Organisers hope music will move the message - local musicians like
Shirlyn Tan, are helping to promote this year's initiative.
Along with ballads, books are also being launched to teach
Singaporeans how to speak grammatically correct English in today's
globalised world.
Says Jennifer Yin, Head Secretariat, Speak Good English Movement,
"Workers are super important to
Singapore. After all we are a city hub where people come for
business. It is the centre of South East Asia so to a great extent,
many people come through, tourists for example. It's very important
for our GDP as well.
"It's really just being conscious. Listening to good music, reading
good books, listening to how good English is spoken. That will come
across and then it will become automatic after that." -
CNA/yy
I am so going to take the highlighted portions apart once I have
time. That's bad English any way you look at it 
