1. Relative clauses
2. Conditionals
3. Reported speech
4. Proof-reading
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2010年5月15日 星期六
2010年3月13日 星期六
Assessment
1. Comprehension
2. VC
3. Infinitive and gerunds
4. conditional tenses
5. proofreading / cloze
2. VC
3. Infinitive and gerunds
4. conditional tenses
5. proofreading / cloze
2010年2月27日 星期六
A Presentation Script - Ways to Help the Homeless
Dear Teacher and classmates,
Today, I'd like to talk about the effectiveness of government policy in helping the street sleepers.
We all know that the recent incident that a street sleeper was found dead in Yau Ma Tei during yesterday's record cold spell. Kwok Pan, who was 101, had been wandering on the streets for more than 10 years, collecting cardboard for a living.
Now, I would like to share my opinion.
First, the Hong Kong government should assign more social workers to visit the homeless. So, they can provide help when the homeless people are in urgent need. When it is very cold, the social workers may visit them and give them some clothes and help them go to some shelters.
Next, the government should give houses to some homeless people. Therefore, similar incidents will not happen again.
I hope my two suggestions will help the homeless. Thank you.
Today, I'd like to talk about the effectiveness of government policy in helping the street sleepers.
We all know that the recent incident that a street sleeper was found dead in Yau Ma Tei during yesterday's record cold spell. Kwok Pan, who was 101, had been wandering on the streets for more than 10 years, collecting cardboard for a living.
Now, I would like to share my opinion.
First, the Hong Kong government should assign more social workers to visit the homeless. So, they can provide help when the homeless people are in urgent need. When it is very cold, the social workers may visit them and give them some clothes and help them go to some shelters.
Next, the government should give houses to some homeless people. Therefore, similar incidents will not happen again.
I hope my two suggestions will help the homeless. Thank you.
2010年2月20日 星期六
2010年1月30日 星期六
Argumentative Essay - Advantages and Disadvantages of the Online Activities
Students today spend more time browsing the Internet and engaging in various online activities, such as MSN, facebook, blog, etc. Do you agree that these online activities can do more good than harm to them?
Online activities have been popular among students. They are commonly used to relax or chat with friends. Now, as a student I would like to argue that the online facilities, such as Facebook, MSN and Blog provide us the tools to share our opinions data and information.
Firstly, I would like to talk about Facebook. Facebook hleps us get and share ideas. For example, we know what’s going on with our friends. We may also upload our photos or videos to share with our friends. We can keep in touch with people. On the other hand, games in Facebook are very beneficial, such as Restaurant City because the virtual Restaurant City can help us learn how to earn money with a restaurant.
Secondly, I would like to talk about MSN. The full name of MSN is Window Live Messenger. That means we may use MSN to chat with our friends on “Window”. We can use MSN to contact our friends via computer keyboard, video camera and microphone. We can also use MSN to chat with our friends while seeing and listening to them. Also, if your friends go to other countries to study or live, we may use MSN to contact him or her without spending money on phone.
Finally, I would like to talk about blog. Blog is an online diary. We can post our messages, photos and videos to groups of friends. Also we can use blog for teaching and learning. If someone visits your blog, s/he will get something from your blog.
Although the internet activities will take our time unknowingly, we can set a timer to limit ourselves to an hour or two. As the internet activities are getting more and more common now, students will get more harm if they are not allowed to engage in the online activities.
Edited by Terri
Online activities have been popular among students. They are commonly used to relax or chat with friends. Now, as a student I would like to argue that the online facilities, such as Facebook, MSN and Blog provide us the tools to share our opinions data and information.
Firstly, I would like to talk about Facebook. Facebook hleps us get and share ideas. For example, we know what’s going on with our friends. We may also upload our photos or videos to share with our friends. We can keep in touch with people. On the other hand, games in Facebook are very beneficial, such as Restaurant City because the virtual Restaurant City can help us learn how to earn money with a restaurant.
Secondly, I would like to talk about MSN. The full name of MSN is Window Live Messenger. That means we may use MSN to chat with our friends on “Window”. We can use MSN to contact our friends via computer keyboard, video camera and microphone. We can also use MSN to chat with our friends while seeing and listening to them. Also, if your friends go to other countries to study or live, we may use MSN to contact him or her without spending money on phone.
Finally, I would like to talk about blog. Blog is an online diary. We can post our messages, photos and videos to groups of friends. Also we can use blog for teaching and learning. If someone visits your blog, s/he will get something from your blog.
Although the internet activities will take our time unknowingly, we can set a timer to limit ourselves to an hour or two. As the internet activities are getting more and more common now, students will get more harm if they are not allowed to engage in the online activities.
Edited by Terri
2009年10月16日 星期五
Comprehension Questions
Holistic Learning
Smart people don’t just learn better. They learn differently. While many students get caught up in memorizing facts, intelligent learners know to seek the bigger picture and connect the facts together. This form of learning I call holistic learning.
Holistic learning is basically the opposite of rote memorization. Instead of reciting lists of facts, rules or formulas, you seek to connect ideas together. Instead of having separate boxes in your head for geometry, algebra or ancient India, you deliberately link facts together, so they form a bigger picture.
Excessive studying shows you aren’t learning holistically. It shows that you didn’t learn the material the first time. If you properly link ideas together to see the bigger picture, studying should only be a brief refresher.
How to Boost Your Study Habits
Holistic learning isn’t like a brainstorming technique or mind-mapping. It is fundamentally changing how you look at the process of learning and how you absorb information. As such, there isn’t an easy ten step program to master it.
There are some tools that can help you shift your learning habits so they become more holistic:
Visceralize 感官和動作集中學習- You’ve probably heard of visualizing, right? Visceralizing means taking all of your senses and connecting it to information. Studies have shown that people remember more vividly information that comes to us in an emotionally aroused state. Linking feelings, senses and imagery to bland ideas makes them more real. You probably counted on your fingers when learning numbers, why can’t you do the same when you are learning now?
Metaphor隱喻 - The heart of holistic learning is relating things together. Metaphors are literary devices that link two things that normally don’t go together. Come up with metaphors to describe more complicated ideas in simpler terms.
Ten-Year-Old Rule十歲法則 - Explain ideas to yourself as you would to a ten year old. Sure, this isn’t always possible in your last years of a medical degree or learning how to apply neural networks to computer AI. But the idea is that you should be able to “dumb down” an idea enough so it seems obvious to yourself.
Trace Back 引用 - Put away your books and start with a random fact or concept. Then relate that idea to another concept in your subject. Keep doing this tracing pattern until you’ve linked many ideas together. The Gupta Dynasty reminds you of ancient Greece which reminds you of Socrates, reminding you of Confucius…
Refresher Scan 快速復習 - Scan through information in your text book. Notice whenever you encounter information that you either don’t remember or weren’t 100% sure about. Quickly link that information back to existing ideas through viscerlization and metaphor. If your refresher scan is turning up more than a few points per chapter, you haven’t learned it thoroughly enough.
Compress Information壓縮信息 - Not all information works well for holistic learning. A common point cited to me is learning anatomy for first year medical students. Anatomy involves learning arbitrary Latin names for hundreds of different elements of your body. There often aren’t clear patterns and constructs, just a dry list of facts. When encountering information such as this, your goal should be to compress it. Find ways to group information into smaller chunks of memory through pictures or mnemonics.
Write寫下有關聯想 - Take a piece of paper and write out the connections in the information. Reorganize the information into different patterns. The key here is the writing, not the final product. So don’t waste your time making a pretty picture. Scribble and use abbreviations to link the ideas together.
What is holistic learning?
Holistic learning is a new kind of learning. We use images, pictures, graphs, or words to connect the related ideas when we learn.
( Sample answer: Holistic learning is the kind learning where the learners know how to understand what he learn by using and forming pictures to connect the facts and information together. In other words, holistic learners learn and understand the materials the first time they study.)
List four of the learning habits and explain how they help learners to learn better.
(Sample Answer: One of the learning habit is called virceralisation. Learners can benefit when they use feelings, senses, and imaginary to bland ideas and information when they learn something. This helps them remember better and more vividly because information that comes to them in an emotionally aroused state.)
The four learning habits are verceralisation, metaphor, 10-year-old rule, writing.
For verceralisation, we use feeling, senses, imaginary to blend ideas and information when we learn.
For metaphor, we use metaphor to compare two different items when we learn.
For 10-year-old rule, we simplify the subject and make it easy for a 10-year-old student to learn.
For writing, we write to help us find the connection between ideas and information.
Smart people don’t just learn better. They learn differently. While many students get caught up in memorizing facts, intelligent learners know to seek the bigger picture and connect the facts together. This form of learning I call holistic learning.
Holistic learning is basically the opposite of rote memorization. Instead of reciting lists of facts, rules or formulas, you seek to connect ideas together. Instead of having separate boxes in your head for geometry, algebra or ancient India, you deliberately link facts together, so they form a bigger picture.
Excessive studying shows you aren’t learning holistically. It shows that you didn’t learn the material the first time. If you properly link ideas together to see the bigger picture, studying should only be a brief refresher.
How to Boost Your Study Habits
Holistic learning isn’t like a brainstorming technique or mind-mapping. It is fundamentally changing how you look at the process of learning and how you absorb information. As such, there isn’t an easy ten step program to master it.
There are some tools that can help you shift your learning habits so they become more holistic:
Visceralize 感官和動作集中學習- You’ve probably heard of visualizing, right? Visceralizing means taking all of your senses and connecting it to information. Studies have shown that people remember more vividly information that comes to us in an emotionally aroused state. Linking feelings, senses and imagery to bland ideas makes them more real. You probably counted on your fingers when learning numbers, why can’t you do the same when you are learning now?
Metaphor隱喻 - The heart of holistic learning is relating things together. Metaphors are literary devices that link two things that normally don’t go together. Come up with metaphors to describe more complicated ideas in simpler terms.
Ten-Year-Old Rule十歲法則 - Explain ideas to yourself as you would to a ten year old. Sure, this isn’t always possible in your last years of a medical degree or learning how to apply neural networks to computer AI. But the idea is that you should be able to “dumb down” an idea enough so it seems obvious to yourself.
Trace Back 引用 - Put away your books and start with a random fact or concept. Then relate that idea to another concept in your subject. Keep doing this tracing pattern until you’ve linked many ideas together. The Gupta Dynasty reminds you of ancient Greece which reminds you of Socrates, reminding you of Confucius…
Refresher Scan 快速復習 - Scan through information in your text book. Notice whenever you encounter information that you either don’t remember or weren’t 100% sure about. Quickly link that information back to existing ideas through viscerlization and metaphor. If your refresher scan is turning up more than a few points per chapter, you haven’t learned it thoroughly enough.
Compress Information壓縮信息 - Not all information works well for holistic learning. A common point cited to me is learning anatomy for first year medical students. Anatomy involves learning arbitrary Latin names for hundreds of different elements of your body. There often aren’t clear patterns and constructs, just a dry list of facts. When encountering information such as this, your goal should be to compress it. Find ways to group information into smaller chunks of memory through pictures or mnemonics.
Write寫下有關聯想 - Take a piece of paper and write out the connections in the information. Reorganize the information into different patterns. The key here is the writing, not the final product. So don’t waste your time making a pretty picture. Scribble and use abbreviations to link the ideas together.
What is holistic learning?
Holistic learning is a new kind of learning. We use images, pictures, graphs, or words to connect the related ideas when we learn.
( Sample answer: Holistic learning is the kind learning where the learners know how to understand what he learn by using and forming pictures to connect the facts and information together. In other words, holistic learners learn and understand the materials the first time they study.)
List four of the learning habits and explain how they help learners to learn better.
(Sample Answer: One of the learning habit is called virceralisation. Learners can benefit when they use feelings, senses, and imaginary to bland ideas and information when they learn something. This helps them remember better and more vividly because information that comes to them in an emotionally aroused state.)
The four learning habits are verceralisation, metaphor, 10-year-old rule, writing.
For verceralisation, we use feeling, senses, imaginary to blend ideas and information when we learn.
For metaphor, we use metaphor to compare two different items when we learn.
For 10-year-old rule, we simplify the subject and make it easy for a 10-year-old student to learn.
For writing, we write to help us find the connection between ideas and information.
2009年10月10日 星期六
Reading Comprehension Part 1- The Power of Concentration
The Power of Concentration
By Remez Sasson
Part I: Read and answer the questions that follow.
When I was a child, I saw how a magnifying glass could burn a piece of paper, when the rays of the sun were focused through it. The fire could start only when the sun's rays were concentrated to a small point. When the magnifying glass was moved too far away or too close to the paper, the rays were not focused enough and nothing happened. This experience describes vividly the power of concentration.
This power can be described as focused attention. It is the ability to direct the attention to one single thought or subject, to the exclusion of everything else.
When our mind is focused, our energies are not dissipated不閒遊 on irrelevant activities or thoughts. This is why developing concentration is essential to anyone who aspires to take charge of his or her life. This skill is essential for every kind of success. Without it, our efforts力量 get scattered分散, but with it, we can accomplish完成 great things.
Concentration has many uses and benefits. It assists in studying and understanding faster, improves the memory, and helps in focusing on any task, job, activity or goal, and achieving it more easily and efficiently. It is also required for developing psychic心靈 powers, and is a powerful tool for the efficient use of creative visualization.
When this ability is developed, the mind obeys us more readily and does not engage in futile, negative thoughts or worries. We gain mental mastery and we experience true peace of mind.
This ability also plays an important role in meditation. Without it, the mind just jumps restlessly from one thought to another, not allowing us to meditate properly.
Do you now realize, why it is very important and worthwhile to develop and improve the ability to concentrate?
To develop this power you need to train and exercise it. Forget all your excuses about not having the time or being too busy. Do not say that the circumstances are not appropriate or that you cannot find a quiet place to exercise. With a little planning, desire and motivation you can always find the time to exercise each day, no matter how busy you are.
The Restless Mind
Thoughts claim our attention incessantly, and waste our time and energy on unimportant and useless matters. They actually rule our life. We have become so used to this slavery, that we take it for granted, and have become unconscious of this habit, except on certain occasions.
It is the same with thinking. We become conscious of the constant onslaught of our thoughts, and of our inability to calm them down, only when we need to concentrate, solve a problem or study. We are also acutely aware of them when we have worries or fears.
Look at the following familiar situation. You need to study something for your job or for an exam. You sit comfortably on the sofa with the book in your hands and start reading. After a while you feel hungry and go to the kitchen to eat something.
You return to read, and then hear people talking outside. You listen to them for several moments and then bring your attention back to the book.
After a while you feel restless and switch on the radio to listen to some music. You continue to read for a little while, and then remember something that happened yesterday, and you start thinking about it.
When you look at your watch, you are amazed to find out that one complete hour has passed and you have hardly read anything.
This is what happens when one lacks concentration. Imagine what you could have accomplished, if you could control your attention and focus your mind!
Work that requires physical strength, such as carrying heavy loads for example, develops physical strength. Yet, it is not as exercising daily to the gym in a systematic manner. It is the same with concentration. Reading, studying and trying to pay attention to what we do, develop some of this ability, but practicing exercises diligently each day is something else, it is like training in a gym.
1. How is the power of concentration compared to a magnifying glass?
As a magnifying glass can collect the rays to burn papers, the concentration power can help us to learn information to finish the assigned task.
2. Why is concentration power essential for success?
It is because the undissipated energy of our concentration will help us fully use our power to accomplish the difficult tasks that will bring us success.
3. What are the main benefits of concentration?
It benefits us in studying and understanding faster, improves the memory, and helps in focusing on any task, job, activity or goal, and achieving it more easily and efficiently. It is also required for developing psychic心靈 powers, and is a powerful tool for the efficient use of creative visualization.
4. Accordingly to the article, what are the main disadvantages of one’s restless mind?
They main disadvantages of one's restless mind will waste our time and energy on unimportant and useless matters. They will also rule our life. We have become so used to this slavery, that we take it for granted, and have become unconscious of this habit, except on certain occasions.
By Remez Sasson
Part I: Read and answer the questions that follow.
When I was a child, I saw how a magnifying glass could burn a piece of paper, when the rays of the sun were focused through it. The fire could start only when the sun's rays were concentrated to a small point. When the magnifying glass was moved too far away or too close to the paper, the rays were not focused enough and nothing happened. This experience describes vividly the power of concentration.
This power can be described as focused attention. It is the ability to direct the attention to one single thought or subject, to the exclusion of everything else.
When our mind is focused, our energies are not dissipated不閒遊 on irrelevant activities or thoughts. This is why developing concentration is essential to anyone who aspires to take charge of his or her life. This skill is essential for every kind of success. Without it, our efforts力量 get scattered分散, but with it, we can accomplish完成 great things.
Concentration has many uses and benefits. It assists in studying and understanding faster, improves the memory, and helps in focusing on any task, job, activity or goal, and achieving it more easily and efficiently. It is also required for developing psychic心靈 powers, and is a powerful tool for the efficient use of creative visualization.
When this ability is developed, the mind obeys us more readily and does not engage in futile, negative thoughts or worries. We gain mental mastery and we experience true peace of mind.
This ability also plays an important role in meditation. Without it, the mind just jumps restlessly from one thought to another, not allowing us to meditate properly.
Do you now realize, why it is very important and worthwhile to develop and improve the ability to concentrate?
To develop this power you need to train and exercise it. Forget all your excuses about not having the time or being too busy. Do not say that the circumstances are not appropriate or that you cannot find a quiet place to exercise. With a little planning, desire and motivation you can always find the time to exercise each day, no matter how busy you are.
The Restless Mind
Thoughts claim our attention incessantly, and waste our time and energy on unimportant and useless matters. They actually rule our life. We have become so used to this slavery, that we take it for granted, and have become unconscious of this habit, except on certain occasions.
It is the same with thinking. We become conscious of the constant onslaught of our thoughts, and of our inability to calm them down, only when we need to concentrate, solve a problem or study. We are also acutely aware of them when we have worries or fears.
Look at the following familiar situation. You need to study something for your job or for an exam. You sit comfortably on the sofa with the book in your hands and start reading. After a while you feel hungry and go to the kitchen to eat something.
You return to read, and then hear people talking outside. You listen to them for several moments and then bring your attention back to the book.
After a while you feel restless and switch on the radio to listen to some music. You continue to read for a little while, and then remember something that happened yesterday, and you start thinking about it.
When you look at your watch, you are amazed to find out that one complete hour has passed and you have hardly read anything.
This is what happens when one lacks concentration. Imagine what you could have accomplished, if you could control your attention and focus your mind!
Work that requires physical strength, such as carrying heavy loads for example, develops physical strength. Yet, it is not as exercising daily to the gym in a systematic manner. It is the same with concentration. Reading, studying and trying to pay attention to what we do, develop some of this ability, but practicing exercises diligently each day is something else, it is like training in a gym.
1. How is the power of concentration compared to a magnifying glass?
As a magnifying glass can collect the rays to burn papers, the concentration power can help us to learn information to finish the assigned task.
2. Why is concentration power essential for success?
It is because the undissipated energy of our concentration will help us fully use our power to accomplish the difficult tasks that will bring us success.
3. What are the main benefits of concentration?
It benefits us in studying and understanding faster, improves the memory, and helps in focusing on any task, job, activity or goal, and achieving it more easily and efficiently. It is also required for developing psychic心靈 powers, and is a powerful tool for the efficient use of creative visualization.
4. Accordingly to the article, what are the main disadvantages of one’s restless mind?
They main disadvantages of one's restless mind will waste our time and energy on unimportant and useless matters. They will also rule our life. We have become so used to this slavery, that we take it for granted, and have become unconscious of this habit, except on certain occasions.
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