Resources for Writing and Speaking (by Topic) – Check back for updates!

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[VIDEO] EL: Analysing and discussing features in Visual Text

Personally, I really enjoy dissecting some of the cleverly designed advertisements, posters or webpages and using them as platforms to discuss and surface various viewpoints and beliefs that may be attributed to pop culture, traditions, history, politics, religion and values. Having an open , guided and justified discussion can help to shape youths’ broad understanding…

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PSLE Creative Writing: Strategies for Designing a Good Introduction

Here are some of my students’ work to give you a clearer idea of how you can utilise each of the strategies to help you or your child build a good introduction for a narrative essay. Describe Setting Cool air brushed past my face as light slowly withdrew from the sky. Soon the surroundings would…

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How I use ‘DECAL’ to help your child score in Science papers

For many learners of science, they struggle to express what they have understood of abstract science concepts into structured and congruent answers. As such, they often ended up not being able to score in examinations. To help my tutees (from primary to secondary levels), I have come up with the acronym ‘DECAL’ as a fail-proof way of…

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Situational Writing: Descriptive, Informal Email on Traffic Accident

To: John Lim <johnlim@gmail.com> From: Jordan Tan <jordan.tan@gmail.com>  Date: 29 July 2020 Subject: Witnessing an accident on the M5 Expressway Dear John,                  How are you? You won’t believe what happened two days ago.                   On 27 July at about 1 p.m., I was on my way to the rugby club for weekly practice when I witnessed…

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[Personal Reflective/Descriptive Writing] Lessons learnt in hindsight

Topic: “It is easy to be wise after the event.” Describe some lessons you have learnt in hindsight. Written by Caden It has been said that “smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.” I can truly relate to this after the recent event where I was the lead member of the planning committee.  One month…

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Writing: Vary your sentence structures (Plenty of examples)

Do you find yourself stuck with repetitive sentences that make your writing seem monotonous or dull? Or even amateurish? i.e. following the usual [Subject – verb – object, etc] structure. For instance: The objectives of the event are to provide an enriching and fun learning experience for the students. Improved: In order to make the…

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