English lesson on Thursday 5 July

Dear all,

I've gone through with our boys how to write an introduction using a quote or a proverb. Basically, our boys were tasked to do a think-pair-share activity i.e. share with their partners the quotes and proverbs they have found to be suitable in the writing practice 7 and select a most suitable quote / proverb to be featured in the introduction. I've selected a few of our boys' work to be shown below. You may wish to print the various story beginnings and bring it to class tomorrow.

As I have to attend a cluster sharing seminar conducted in another school, I will not be in school tomorrow. However, I have instructed Miss Adeline Loh to ensure that our boys complete writing practice 7 during English lesson tomorrow. Our class captain will be collecting the assignment at the end of the lesson and I'll collect the scripts from my desk after the seminar.

Our boys will not be allowed to complete their assignments at home as it is good to expose them to write a composition within the given time frame i.e. 50 min. Hopefully, this will help train our boys to be better in terms of time management.

I've also included some helping words and phrases that can be used in writing practice 7. These are all contributed by our boys in 4 Patience

Spelling on unit 7 and dictation passage for Term 3 Week 1 will be conducted next Monday. Next week onwards,I'll be conducting spelling and dictation test every Monday. In addition, Library period has been scheduled every Wednesday 1145am - 1215pm.

Have a good weekend too!

God bless, Teresa


Useful quotes and proverbs

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail - Benjamin Franklin

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes - Oscar Wilde

Every path has its puddle

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much - Helen Keller



Useful phrases and words

evacuated

shattered glass

like a bat out of hell

contacted

out of the blue

heaved a sign of relief

froze in terror

wailing

hysterical cries

Sprinted like a cheetah

whipped out a mobile phone

chaos ensued in the train



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