Outline
Topic: Playing Yoyo Is A Trend In Hong Kong
Lead-in points:
Do you know what children like to play
recently? Yup! That must be
yoyo.
No matter boys or girls, most people in Hong Kong might
have
played it when they were young.
Final
sentence: We
are going to discuss and analyse the trend of yoyo, its causes
and
effects.
TS:
As most of you may not know that Yoyo has a long history.
Support:
(1) The origin of yoyo is from
China. And it became a popular toy over
the
world.
With reference to1997 American YO-YO Association Newsletter http://www.ayya.net
(2) Yoyo has been in Hong Kong for long time and it became popular in
late
80’s.
With reference to Old toy http://otoy.hk.st
Body
para #2
TS: The
culture of yoyo has been developed nowadays.
Support:
(1)Yoyo contest was held all over the world, e.g.
National Yoyo Contest.
(2)Extra-curricular
activities were organized at school, e.g. Yoyo Club in C.C.C. ROTARY SECONDARY SCHOOL.
(3)There is an organization called Hong Kong Yoyo Fan Club.
TS: Yoyo’s
trend is discontinuous in Hong Kong, the two most popular period is
the period of Coca Cola in 1980’s and Cartoon of “Super Yoyo”
now. How
these two products affect the yoyo’s trend? It will be discussed
as follow.
Support: (1)
Coca Cola advertisement in 1980’s was promoted by some children
who played yoyo in the Yoyo’s competition.
(2) Tai Koo’s Beverage factory redeems yoyo which have
Coca Cola brand
name
on it.
(3) “Super Yoyo” pushes yoyo to be a popular toy again.
According to the
cartoon, yoyo has many fancy of playing style, children’s curious is
arose. Competitions are also held by this fact.
(4) Yoyo’s trend causes people to steel things. The number
of crimes
increase in this few months. You may noticed that all
baddies are
teenagers between 9-14years old.
With reference to http://www.yoyo.com.tw/
http://home.kimo.com.tw/ajtom50125/tom~yoyo.htm
TS:
The major group likes to play yoyo now in Hong Kong
Support:
(1) Age around 6 to 15 would be more likely to play yoyo as they have an
influence from a Japanese cartoon.
We are going to find
out the major
groups of ages and sex. They like playing yoyo the most. As we
predicted that ages around 6-30 would be more likely to play it.
(2)
There are more boys than girls like to play yoyo.
With
reference to http://www.hkyyfc.org.hk
(The Hong Kong Yoyo Fan Club)
TS:
Although playing yoyo is a healthy activity, children
should play it safely as it is
very
dangerous if they do not pay any attention on it.
Support:
(1) If children do not pay any attention to the safety
precautions of playing
yoyo
- accidents will occur (both
pedestrians and players can be in danger)
(2)
Parents are responsible to let their children know more about the
safety
precautions in playing yoyo.
(3)
Style which children are playing and also under which situations will
cause accidents.
i.e.
Children must know the safety precautions when playing yoyo.
With reference to
article from newspaper (a child’s head is hit when he/she is playing)
With reference to http://appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple/sec_main.cfm