Beware of Crimes! You’ve seen them at your lift landings and you’ve seen them on Crime Watch. No, we’re not talking about your new neighbours. We’re talking about these crime prevention posters put up by the Singapore Police Force, warning people not to fall for scams. It seems like these con artists are everywhere …
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This week, we would like to share with prospective teachers the inside scoop of joining the Lil’ but Mighty family! If you like what you have been seeing on our website and have been contemplating our English Teacher position, this is a post to help shed some light on how it would be like. Even …
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Hi all! I think it will be timely to discuss a way for children to improve on the language component of their composition writing, in particular, having variety in sentence structure. Having descriptive phrases and rich vocabulary is important but constructing interesting sentences is vital in achieving a good score for language too. One way …
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Hi! I’m Ms Nellie Lim, a teacher at Lil’ but Mighty. For many budding writers, these are always the perennial questions in their heads: Is my storyline unusual and interesting enough to engage the reader? Is my story suspenseful enough and does the reader want to carry on reading? Are there enough twists and turns …
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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”— Henry Ford I have to say that I agree with Henry Ford completely because there is nothing as exciting as discovering or learning new things. Today, with …
I am sure you have been in this situation before: your teacher gives you a continuous writing piece to complete. You read the question and look at the pictures. You decide on the picture you want to use in your writing and pick up your pen. You start writing. Stop! You are missing an important …
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Don’t forget the lyrics… Beauty and the Beast: The most recent Disney classic making its move from cartoon to live action remake. And what an apt movie to muse about learning from the world we live in, considering how much Belle adores reading and finding out more about different lands! If you haven’t seen the …
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Hello! How are you? I know that most of you are very busy preparing for the semestral assessments that are coming up in the next few weeks. I hope that you are taking care of yourself despite your busy schedules. This week, I am going to give you five tips that will hopefully aid you …
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In our most recent webinar, we are elated to have the highest number of participants with us to learn about direct and Indirect speech transformation. We hope it has been a fruitful session for everyone and we definitely enjoyed having the company of such a lively crowd! Many of you posed excellent questions regarding this …
Hello once again! In my previous post, I shared 5 things you can do to prepare for your English paper. In this one, I will focus on the PSLE Comprehension Open-ended segment of Paper 2. By now, you should be aware that for this part of the paper, there are 10 questions of varying types. …
Hello! As the examination season comes to a close, it is also the time when you will begin receiving your marked scripts back. Other than doing corrections when your teachers go through the errors in class, some of you may want to know what else you can do to avoid such mistakes in the future. …
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Did you hear about the taxi that exploded at Buona Vista station? How about President Trump’s supposed visit to North Korea? Which of these are facts? And which are, to use a now oft-quoted term by a certain administration, “alternative facts”? In the world we live in today, the processing of information is not always …
