Is your child a chronic daydreamer, or perhaps his teachers have given you feedback that he likes to drift off in class? Did he make many careless mistakes or did not score well in his last listening test results because he was in his own world? With smartphones and screens often being a distraction, even …
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For some of us, being able to work from home has been a dream. One of the teachers mentioned how she thought it will be wonderful to go for a swim at the beach in Bali and then return in the afternoon to her beach house to conduct her online lesson. Ah, the flexibility of …
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I love my mother, truth-serum fact. But somehow no matter how hard I try, showing her my love feels like a guessing game. Should I get her chocolates and flowers? A day at the spa? Make her breakfast in bed? Give her a backrub? What is it that she would like exactly? I get a …
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Hi, everyone! Thank you for staying with the Confused by Prepositions blog post series! After the first two blog posts (Part 1A and Part 1B), do you find prepositions less confusing and easy to learn? For the finale of this series, I will be discussing dependent prepositions! You might ask what dependent prepositions are. Well, …
Hi, everyone! In today’s post, we will be learning about visualisation. Hmm… the word ‘visual’ means that it is something that we see with our eyes. In fact, its noun form, ‘visualisation’, refers to the formation of images in our minds. Are we trying to see something today? Visualisation is useful in 3 ways: in …
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Hi, everyone! I am Mrs Chew from Lil’ but Mighty! Today, we are going to look at hanged vs hung. Now, many children AND adults are unsure of how to use “hanged” vs “hung”. A question which many of them have would be: Are these words interchangeable or used in different ways? Like what you …
What goes into writing a book? Have you always wanted to write a book but don’t know where to start? Or perhaps you are a parent of a child who doesn’t like writing and would like to know how to get him or her interested in it. Then this video is for you! As children are …
Hello, everyone! This is Miss Elysia, a teacher at Lil’ but Mighty! Throughout my years of teaching, one question my students always ask me is this: “I know how to answer the questions using the answering techniques, but I don’t understand the passage. HOW!” Today, I’m going to give you three tips to help you …
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‘Don’t worry, he got an umbrella!’ Lisa says as she points at David. Is there anything wrong with what Lisa said above? If you are frowning at the word ‘got’, you are absolutely right. Lisa is speaking about something that is happening now but she used ‘got’, a past tense verb. The meaning of ‘got’ …
Yawn! I was having a fantastic dream eating some nice cream puffs until my alarm clock rang. I awoke and couldn’t sleep again after that. What? “Awoke” is a strange word to use? Now this is waking me up. It is not wrong to use “awoke” here at all! Of course, I could have said …
With their creativity in their photographs and meaningful sayings of their fathers, 3 lil’ ones and their mighty fathers have emerged as the winners in our “My Dad Says…” Contest! Congratulations and they will be walking away with $30 worth of Grab Food vouchers each! We also want to thank all our participants who …
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Hi everyone! I’m Miss Elysia, an English teacher at Lil’ but Mighty! Today, I’m going to talk to you about visual text! Out of all the Booklet A components in English Paper 2, visual text might seem to some people, the least important one to learn about. It doesn’t explicitly test grammar rules or vocabulary, …
