Hello, everyone! I’m Ms Genevieve, and I’m thrilled to share English tips and strategies with you on the Lil’ but Mighty blog. The month of May is packed with revision lessons, practice papers, and bottles of chicken essence — all in preparation for the mid-year examinations. I hope to take some heat off the examination …
Synonyms? What are they? Let Ketchup and Mayo help you understand through a wonderful song that shows you how you can give those adjectives a power-up! Catch them in the latest episode of Ketchup on English – Synonyms of ‘Happy’! Like what you are watching? Please subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive our tips …
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Hi there! My name is Ms Lee Hui Jun and I am here today to introduce and provide some strategies to help you score for Secondary School Situational Writing at the secondary level. If you are unfamiliar with the overall assessment format at the Secondary Level, you may click on this link to find out …
How to Tackle Secondary School Situational Writing With These 2 Tips! Read More »
Do you know that the choice of verbs and adverbs the writer uses can make a powerful impact on the reader? Most of the time, as writers, we tend to be overly focused on the story plot and often forget about the basic principles of writing such as: choice of verbs choice of adverbs Why …
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What exactly are Uncountable Nouns? Ketchup looks just as confused as I am! But never fear; friends are here! Let Ketchup’s newest friend show him, Pepper, and Ms Nuri what it means when we talk about Uncountable Nouns! Like what you are watching? Please subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive our tips and strategies …
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Ever wondered how to tackle Secondary School English Editing? In this video, I will be focusing on the Editing component found in the O Level Paper 1. For those of you who are unfamiliar or new to this component, allow me to highlight these important points: This section requires you to identify and edit grammatical …
4 Useful Tips for Secondary School English – Edit Your Habits for Editing! Read More »
Sentence synthesis is about putting the original information together but in a different way. For different types of questions, there are different things to look out for when stringing the information together. Today, we will look at one of the hot favourites in examinations, transforming of direct speech to indirect (or reported) speech.
For this purpose, I am thrilled to introduce to you a new friend in this journey of English, Synthesis-on-a-stick.
With the prelims and PSLE Oral looming ahead, we are starting to prepare the children for their oral examination. Today’s post seeks to answer 5 common misconceptions that children and parents have regarding the examination. During my conversations with parents and children, I realise that these 5 misconceptions often create unnecessary fear and are even stumbling blocks for children during their attempt of the examination. Let’s see what they are today!
Welcome to my fourth blog post! The new term has started and things are going to be fast and furious, especially for the Primary 6 pupils. Since the PSLE Oral examination is round the corner, I have decided to focus on the Reading Aloud component in this post. For readers who are parents with P3 to P5 children, this post will still be relevant since essentially, this component is tested across all levels.
Previously, we have talked about how new vocabulary can be recorded and remembered using vocabulary frames, word webs and analogies to make links. Essentially, a word needs to be encountered as many times as possible for it to be retained. Today, I would like to share about 3 fun ways for children to retain the new vocabulary they have learnt. These games can be easily adapted to be used both in the classroom or at home so educators and parents (Yes, join your children in revising their vocabulary although your role is more of a facilitator or game master), do try them with your kids!
Hi all! Oral examinations have definitely started in schools and many of you are probably practising hard these few weeks. We have published several posts on the topic of oral (which you can find over here) and are glad to share that we have made a video to aid children who are visual learners. Being only 3 minutes long, we hope that parents and children who are strapped for time will find this an efficient way of learning and pick up the 3 must-dos with some verbal and visual explanations in the video.
Visual Text Comprehension makes up 8 marks in Booklet A of Paper 2. It is absolutely possible to secure the 8 marks in this section. One important thing is for children to be able to understand the what the visual text is saying as well as what the questions are asking for. In order to …
