Filed under: 2008-09 S1D, 2008-09 S2AC, Elect 1 - World of Sports, Elect 2 - Environment, Grammar Fun, School Annoucement
Dear students
Another holiday, another assignment series. Happy Easter!
Both S1 & S2
1. Reflective Writing
Comprehension -Slow down and enjoy life more; Learn to appreciate, don’t be envious
Print or copy the above passages and questions onto your reflective writing book, passages and questions on the left and about 150-200-word personal reflection on the right.
2. Notebook
Write or type the i) part of speech; ii) IPA; iii) English definition; iv) example sentence of each of the vocabulary onto your notebook.
You are encouraged to share the workload among 4 students. Say each of you is responsible for one column. Thereafter, you can either print or write them on your notebook. This could make your life easier. 
Recommended link of online dictionary: www.dictionary.cambridge.org
3. Test Correction on your ‘Checkbook’
Do your test again on your ‘checkbook’ excluding the sections of verb table and proofreading. Write the answers only. Skip lines!
4. Longman Elect
Read and complete the exercises from p.68 to p.73.
One more for S2
5. Sentence making worksheets
Make your sentences using the content of either local or global news. Try to stay close the topic of environment as this is the next Elect topic in the second term. Here are some useful links:
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/
Let’s have a fruitful Easter holiday!
Cheers
Madame Bouteiller
Which section do we do first in the G.E. paper?
Of course the section you’ll defnitely get the points!
For you, that is VERB TABLE! There are at least 10 points in this section and it’s ONE grade of your test already!
Then the Vocabulary and the Grammar sections! You want to get rid of all those spellings from your brain and feel relaxed to do the rest which you need to think attentively afterwards.
Leave the Proofreading and Comprehension sections at last, because you can be safe and feel for sure that you have already got the points from the other Grammar sections in which the answers are pretty definite.
This is my personal experience/opinions on the time allocation:
1. Verb Table 3-5 minutes
2. Vocabulary and Grammar sections 10-15 minutes
3. Comprehension 10-15 minutes
4. Proofreading 5-10 minutes
5. Check if I’ve made any careless mistakes the rest of the time
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45 minutes
GOOD LUCK!
Vivienne Tam, a Hong Kong-bred fashion designer, is now based in New York.
She was born in Guangzhou and grew up in Hong Kong. Her interest in fashion was inspired by her parents, who usually made their own clothes. By the time she was eight, she was already designing and making clothes for her siblings.
As told by Vivienne, perseverance is the key to her success in the fashion world. She keeps trying and never gives up. She launched her own label in 1994. Her East-meets-West design is very popular.
Zaid lives in Cairo, Egypt. Every morning after getting dressed, he grabs a quick breakfast which is usually a boiled egg on pita bread and then rides the bus to school. He needs to study three languages – Arabic, English and German. As he is a computer fanatic, he spends a lot of time in the IT lab. Like most teens, he likes chatting online.
Candide is a Secondary Three student in Cameroon, Africa. Unlike Zaid, she walks to school as it is not located far away from her home. She can study both English and French. Like some other African countries, Cameroon was once a French colony. For this reason, people there still speak and study French.
(Please let me know if you have any problem.)
Filed under: School Annoucement
10 points of your composition are allocated to your draft work. Have you ever wondered how you can get this 10 points out of your composition? Check out this example done by Ms Betty. If your draft is like this, you can get 10 full marks!
