Idiom of the Day

Down to earth
humble and not proud (personality)

Example sentence:
All of the students like Professor Suraya because she is so down to earth.

Something to ponder...

Did You Know?

An eighteenth century English aristocrat, the Earl of Sandwich, loved playing cards. He used to play cards all day and night and hated having to stop a game for his meals. One day he thought of a way of putting meat between two slices of bread. In this way he could eat while at the same time continue playing cards. It is because of the Earl of Sandwich that today we call sandwiches “sandwiches”.

English Jokes

JOKES

1. How do you get straight A’s?
- I use a ruler.

2. What did one maths book say to another?
- I have a lot of problems.

3. What’s a cow’s favourite subject at school?
- Moo-sic

4. What’s the fruitiest subject?
- History, because it’s full of dates.

5. How do bees get to school?
- On the school buzz.

6. Why shouldn’t you put the letter “M” into the refrigerator?
- Because it turns ice into mice.

Preparing for Essay writing

Hello students. Lots of discussions based on samples of different types of essays have been done these few weeks. Do check out this following link for further info and reading.
Good Luck.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/main/essay.htm

Always remember to plan and also work your plan. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!!

Diwali Greetings to all.

Diwali is a celebration of lights and colors. Diwali is a time to reconnect with people who mean the world to us. Reach out to them this Diwali with wishes of peace, prosperity and bliss.

Hope to see 100% cooperation among students involved in the 'kolam' competition on Monday. Have fun....

An English Blog

http://theenglishyouneedblog.blogspot.com

This blog provides free grammar and vocabulary, exercises, learning tips, reading materials, links and resources for students. Hope all of you will check it out.

Writing newspaper reports 1 Tekun

Please hand in your group work on newspaper reports on 15.10.08:
1. Mystery of the missing English teacher.
2. Mystery of missing teacher solved.

How Dalat Got its Name

Attention to 1 Tekun : Look at the words above. Do they look familiar? Please read the short story. You will answer a few tasks in class.

Good Sites for English

Please log on to these sites and try out the tasks. Remember that persistence is the key to better English.
"I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand." - Chinese Proverb

www.englishpage.com/grammar
www.eslflow.com
www.english-at-home.com

English Daily Activities

Attention to all students. Please check out the links under 'interesting links'. A good one for students is English Daily Acivities. Do the activities to improve your English Language. The activites are quite simple and will not take up too much of your time.
Do keep a record of all these activities in your English Book 1.

1 Tekun students presenting their William Shakespeare project during English class

This is 1 Tekun's video made by our classmate, Nico Maxmillan. He was asked by Mdm Sawaran to do this video. We did our Shakespeare presentation during English class. It is a documentation video about our presentation. Thank You to Nico and also those who were involved in the making of this video.

By: Nazihah Mohammad
1 Tekun

Form 2T, 2C and 1T :Conference

Please identify one time frame when you can be online and give your views on certain topics - do conferencing . Your responses should be more than 5o words and please take note of your language - tenses and structure. This would also be a good practice to improve your writing skills, let's kill two birds with one stone. Avoid short forms or chat language. Moderators do take note and put up topics for conferencing , if possible every week. Thanks.