Today, let’s talk about ‘If’ conditionals. (e.g. If it rains, we will cancel the match.) Understanding ‘If’ conditionals: There are three general types of ‘If’ conditionals. 1. The situation is open and still possible. (present tense + present tense ~ will) If it rains, we will cancel the match. If my father calls, tell him I am not …
She sells seashells on a seashore. If only our oral reading examination is judged based on our ability to say that favourite tongue twister of many! Until then, here are some tips to help you prepare and score for the reading component of your oral examinations. Do’s: General Tips a) Break a long word into syllables. Read …
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Hello everyone! My name is Ms Geraldine and I am an English Teacher and Curriculum Specialist at Lil’ but Mighty. I grew up loving to both read books and write my own stories, and it is my hope to inculcate a similar passion for both hobbies in my students! I bet you’re wanting to find …
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Hey, everyone! I’m Miss Jenny, a teacher at Lil’ but Mighty. If you are an active social media user, you would have noticed that there have been a large number of new social media terms that have come to light over the recent years. Keeping track of the ever evolving digital jargon can be an …
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Prepositions Of Place | Prepositions indicate relationships between other words in a sentence. But how do you apply it to places? Let Ms Nuri and Ketchup show you how, and help Ketchup find his missing things like in the image below! Like what you are watching? Please subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive our …
Hi everyone! Welcome to our blog post! The Synthesis and Transformation (S&T) section is possibly one of the trickiest sections in the PSLE English Paper 2. Making errors, such as using the wrong tense or missing out words, will cause you to lose the whole two marks for that question. That is why it is …
In the last blog post on Common Errors in editing (Part 1), I wrote about three types of common errors that you may see in the Editing section of Paper 2. These include mistakes in subject-verb agreement, the use of prepositions and in not using the infinitive after ‘to’. I hope you have found those tips helpful as you tackle that part of the paper.
As promised, here are three more typical types of editing errors. Are you ready? Good! Here we go!
It is definitely time for our children who are taking the PSLE to go full steam ahead with no more public holidays from now until the big P! We have had readers requesting for various topics to be covered on our blog to help prepare them for the upcoming exam and to start, we are going to look at the must-know sentence structures for sentence synthesis. Here are 7 tricky structures that have stumbled children in the synthesis section. How many of these do you already know?
In today’s time to read… video, Ms Nora will be introducing a book by one of the most famous children’s author of all time, Roald Dahl. Sometimes, one good book can change your children’s view on reading and we believed that this is a potential game changer for some children who may not like to …
In the final post for the series, I will go through errors in word forms and connectors. I understand that many of you are busy with common tests and I hope you have found the earlier tips useful as you revise for the Editing section.
As all of you know, the Olympics are going on right now and I am sure you have been reading reports on the events that have been taking place every day. Today, we are going to make use of these reports to learn prepositions from the Olympics. A preposition is used to show a relationship …
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We all know that transformation question types are bound to appear in almost every major examination once P5 begins. With so many various question types that may require a verb to be changed to a noun or vice versa, do you feel overwhelmed and unsure of where to begin? Well, today we are going to look at 6 structures that require a noun to be used.
