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 …
Previously, I wrote about how one of the questions in the Vocabulary MCQ section of Paper 2 tests your knowledge of common English idioms, and how you go about answering such a question. In this follow-up post, I am going to recommend to you the S.A.T. (Super.Awesome.Terrific) way in learning idioms. 1. Sort idioms according …
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More importantly, your knowledge of prepositions can be tested in numerous sections in Paper 2 – Grammar MCQ, Vocabulary MCQ, Grammar Cloze, Comprehension Cloze and Editing. That’s more than half of the components in Paper 2!
As a follow up to my previous post on prepositions, I thought I would share with you three apps which you can download if you’re looking for an effective and fun way to learn prepositions.
In this post, I am going to show you how the modest game of Bingo can be used as a fun revision tool.
To start off with, let me share with you the power of using dialogue. Dialogue is an essential part of the story.
