【明報專訊】The period between the 1950s and 1980s was one in which Hong Kong's manufacturing industry boomed. Hong Kong goods like Red A (紅A) products were then quite popular. Red A is a well-known local brand name of plastic products. Some of them are on view in an exhibition called Shifting Objectives: Designs from the M+ Collection at M+ Pavillion, West Kowloon Cultural District. It closes on February 5.

(sources: Ming Pao, the West Kowloon Cultural District website, Red A website)

These Thermoses were made in China between 1966 and 1975. Many painters were then assigned to factories to design flower-and-bird patterns on bottle bodies. (see the photo A)

The "watermelon ball (西瓜波)" is a plastic ball made in Hong Kong with red and white stripes. It was a toy popular with Hong Kong children in the 1960s and 1970s.(see the photo B)

■ Game １

Bill bought six plastic cups. He filled three cups on the left with orange juice. In one step, Eason rearranged the cups so that one with juice was next to an empty cup. How did he do that?

■ Game ２

Bill arranged ten "watermelon balls" in a triangular array. Turn the pattern upside down by moving three balls.

(Answers on next text)

■ English highway﹕upside down

If you put something upside down, you turn it round so that the part that is usually lowest is above the part that is usually highest.

e.g. Before you drink the juice, turn the bottle upside down and shake it.

■ Glossary

boom (v) 迅速發展

stripe (n) 條紋

assign (v) 指派

array (n)隊列