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2023 December Holidays – Holiday Workshops

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And just like that, 2023 is coming to a close. For P5 students looking to get a headstart in your PSLE preparations for 2024, or P4 students wanting to get a taste of what to expect in upper primary English, we have just the workshops and online self-revision resources for you this upcoming year-end break. We’ll be conducting live in-person

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How to Make your Compositions Stand Out!

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\ Using Humour: One way for your story to stand out, is to make your reader laugh. It won’t be easy, as what is funny to you, may not be funny to others (especially adults). Here are some ways we can inject humour into our stories. Use funny moments from your personal life/anecdotes – If you’re stuck or confused on how

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Tips on Acing Spelling/Editing Section

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It’s just a WEEK to go before PSLE’s main papers begin! Here are some VALUABLE tips in tackling the SPELLING and EDITING section of English Paper 2 Booklet B (worth 12 marks!) There are TWO main classes of mistakes to edit (as the name of the section suggests). They USED to be differentiated by bolding and underlining (spelling bolded, grammar

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EL Paper 1 Situational Writing Tips

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  What is Situational Writing? Situational writing is a test of applied or practical writing skills. For example, students may be asked to write an e-mail, letter, postcard, etc. to a particular person. This counts for 15 marks. 6 marks are allocated for Task Fulfilment and 9 for Language and Organization. To get the top band for Task Fulfilment (5-6

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The Race Against Time

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Topic: A Challenge Picture 1: A Clock Title: The Race Against Time POV: (Narrator’s POV, 3rd) “Lily, you should really try! Come on!” Lavender and James urged twelve-year-old Lily Evans. Lily stared at her best friend, Lavender, and her brother, James. They were both smiling warmly. “Oh, well okay… but I’m only doing it for Mum and Dad. NOT for

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Top THREE Most Tested Grammar MCQ Questions Part 2/3

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  2. Question Tags Question tags are the short questions that we put on the end of sentences – particularly in spoken English. There are many different question tags but the rules are not difficult to learn. i) Positive/negative If the main part of the sentence is positive, the question tag is negative He’s a doctor, isn’t he? You work

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PSLE ENGLISH REVISION TIPS

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Having taught several cohorts of primary school graduating classes, I have amassed quite a few tips and strategies that can be used for revision right before your PSLE English papers (or any upper primary English exams for that matter). This may be construed as ‘spotting’ questions, but these questions are repeated in almost every English exam for a reason. Kids

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