Second Prizes Fell into SEUP English Majors in the 12th Higher Education Cup Business English Debate

Date: 2021-06-07Hits: 167

On June 2nd, the 12th Higher Education Cup Business English Debate came to a successful conclusion. Both the “Highlight” team made up of Wang Jiaying, Li Chenfei, Wang Canjun and Zou Rongfeng, four students of Class 2020 from the College of Foreign Languages, and the “Marrow-Out-of-Life” team made up of Hu Qingqing, Song Yanqi and Shen Yuchen, three students of Class 2019 from the College of Foreign Languages, along with Wang Ting, a graduate from China University of Geosciences, laughed to the last and respectively won the second prize in the Final National Contest.  

More than 20 team from the colleges and universities in Shanghai went into the Final. Through fierce competition, two teams dispatched by our university won the second prize in the end. Chen Li, a teacher from the College of Foreign Languages, was awarded the prize for the Best Tutor while our university the Best Organization Award. This is a new breakthrough we have achieved in this competition these years.

Under the guidance of the Translation Service Committee of Translators’ Association of China, this debate was sponsored by Shanghai Science and Technology Translation Society, Higher Education Press and Shanghai National Technological Market for Colleges and Universities. This competition lasted more than two months from its preliminary and semi-final through final. It introduced the procedures of debate adopted in some high-level American and British Business Debate such as Discussion & Presentation for Business PlansBriefly DPBPand Case Study & Debate for Major TopicsBriefly CSDMT. By providing some solutions to certain business issues and the making of multi-media ads the competitors displayed their creativity. Through the debate they were required to tell the stories of Chinese brands in English and discuss international business plans.