On March 6th, 141 students from provincial high schools, continuing education centers participated in the 3rd English eloquence contest held by the Department of Education & Training. On the first round, the contestants had to do 2 parts: 1 writing test with following contents: online games’ effect on study, value of homework, description of Tet & holidays celebrating in Vietnam; and listening tests with choosing right answers or filling in the blanks exercises.From the first round’s result, the organizers will pick up 15 students for the second round taking place on March 19th. This contest’s purposes are encouragement to students being fond of English learning, and finding out gifted students to train for higher level contests.Reported by N.Thanh – Translated by Ngoc Huynh