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advice on practice and procedures. The series was followed with tutorial sessions held at the Caritas Centre.
Thursday "Now & Then"
An elementary English course for people who wanted to learn everyday conversational English. In each programme, several useful sentences were taught in the form of a short conversation and songs were used to reinforce the key structures of each individual lesson. The text of each lesson was published weekly in the Sing Tao Evening Post. Listeners generally enjoyed this method in learning English.
Friday
"Radio Doctor"
A form of public service programme produced in conjunction with the Hong Kong Medical Association. The first 5 minutes of each programme was a talk on a special medical subject and the rest of the time was devoted to phone-ins.
Saturday
"Putung Hua Lessons"
These were broadcast in the form of conversations between two speakers. The students followed the programme with an accompanying text.
This was the
only programme within the fixed "educational programme band" which did not have a phone-in.
Other educational programmes outside the "Continuing Education" band included "Starting to speak", repeats of "Keep Up Your English", "English for You" and "Let This Be A Lesson to You". All these were English-language teaching programmes of 15 minute duration. The basic material was supplied by the BBC.
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Many of the courses were jointly produced with the Extra Mural Department of the Chinese University and the Hong Kong University, the Polytechnic or the Caritas Centre, in which case, tutorials were held periodically and certificates of attendance were issued upon completion of the course.
Voice of J.P.C. (Junior Police Call)
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The Voice of J.P.C., first broadcast in September 1975 is firmly established as a weekly radio programme having taken over the role of the J.P.C. television programme previously produced by R.T.H.K.
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