My advice to my students- always plan your compositions! It just takes five minutes but it organises your thoughts. There’s also a lower risk of going out of point if you have written an outline. I want my students to start this good habit from young. As seen here, my Primary 3 students from the[…]
Spotted a grammar mistake while watching Crime Watch. What’s the mistake? Crime Watch does a great job educating the public on law and order in Singapore, but it should get a new transcriber. (See photo in previous post) The error: I saw him took. Correct: I saw him take. After verbs of perception (see watch,[…]
Derek who is ________ university undergraduate spoke to us for ________ hour during Assembly. 1) an…a 2) a…an 3) a…a 4) an…an The answer is 2. Rule: Use “a” before words that start with a consonant sound and “an” before words that start with a vowel sound. -Hour starts with a vowel sound, since it[…]
A pilot visited the Primary 1-2 class today. The kids were captivated by his stories and had endless questions for him. The poor pilot must feel interrogated because the questions were sharp, tough and excessively morbid. “What happens if there is a crash?”, “What do you do when there is a crash?”, “what if someone[…]
I brought the P1-2 students out today to talk to people near our centre so that the children can write about them in their compositions. It was a very rewarding session! We met a man practising tennis and he was kind enough to explain the techniques to us. We also chatted with a man at[…]
Question-tag grammar questions are easy. Usually it is: Subject+verb (positive), (negative) verb +subject? He is fat, isn’t he? Subject +verb (negative), (positive) verb +subject? He doesn’t like to be called fat, does he? There are exceptions though. Be extremely careful when you see questions which use adverbs which have a negative sense such as “never”,[…]
Our new young reporter, also our primary one student at the new Novena centre, earns a cup of ice-cream after interviewing the pretty waitress at Udders Ice Cream, Novena, Singapore. He wrote about her working hours and the customers’ favourite ice cream in his very first article for the Study Room Press! 😉
Whether you use “bring” or “take” depends on your point of reference for the action. -You ask people to BRING things to where you are. -You TAKE things to the place you are going. For example: Please bring the files to my table. I am feeling lazy; I wish someone would bring me dinner. (coming[…]
Recently, there’s a buzz in the education circle called flip teaching, i.e. student learn by watching video lectures at home and what-used-to-be homework is now done in class. I think I can need to patent my own pedagogy- the Wei method too. 😉 As PSLE inches, I want to be able to spend more quality[…]
It had been hell the past few days. As a reporter, life has been pretty hectic, especially with the recent Thai coup. On Thursday, I was having interviews at 10:30pm and logging off from my work mail only at 12:30 am. The next day, I reached my office at 5am to do work, took a[…]