Issue 9612 June 2009

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Do you know about pirates? Boundless #5 Pirate is out now! You can refer to the mini-site about pirates. You can also find a lot of useful learning resources in English Campus.

Boundless

Pirate

The fifth issue - Pirate - is out now! It includes materials for students and a teaching plan on enhancing students' vocabulary and idioms related to pirate. Visit our Pirate mini-site to learn words and phrases about pirates. Know about the adventure ship in Info. Let's learn more about sailing in Local Knowledge. You can also win a book coupon by answering the questions in Web Quest.


Read

Do you enjoy reading? Reading can help to enrich our vocabulary. Let's read some abstract of the books in Library.

Book1

Love by Design
It is winter. It is raining and Tom is bored.

He hates working in the library. He wants to be an artist and photographer. But he failed his exams. So he can't go to art college.

Then the door of the library opens and a girl walks in. A beautiful girl in a red coat. She smiles at him -- and Tom falls in love.

Book2 Don't Tell Me What to Do
Tom needed help. So did Masters. At first everything went well.

But why had Tom left home? What did Masters do exactly? And who was the girl called Shirley?

 

Book4 Claws
The creature was about nine feet tall. Its head touched the ceiling of the room. Larry looked at its large, black eyes and long beak.

It had a long beak like a bird, but it did not have wings. It had huge red claws on its hands and feet.

'Those claws have killed four of my friends,' said a voice.


Ask Graham

AskGraham

Our Native English Teacher, Graham, answers questions on English language. You can learn how to write a letter to say you are leaving a school in Question 289. Learn more why we use 'swine' to talk about pigs in Question 288. You can also learn about the difference between using 'when' and 'that' in relative clauses in Question 287. There are more answers here. If you have some questions, please feel free to ask Graham!


Create

create

Do you enjoy writing short stories? You can read others' short stories in Create. Share your Short stories, Essays, Poetry or other forms of writing with us. You can also give feedback to others' work.


Teachers' Corner
HKEdCity Subject Talk

To facilitate schools to prepare for the new school year 2009/10, two seminar sessions have been organized to introduce the series of subject-based teaching resources and learning packages tailored for adoption in teaching and learning.

Date: 30th June, 2009 (Tuesday)

Time:

13:00 - 15:10 (Session 1) / 15:20 - 17:30 (Session 2)
Venue: Hong Kong Productivity Council
Details: Each session will be divided into two parts. The first part aims to introduce Teachers Circle, ETV clips bank, and web tools. The second part of the session consists of nine concurrent sessions, in which web-based teaching and learning resources and activities will be introduced covering English Language (Primary, Secondary), Chinese Language (Primary, Secondary), Mathematics (Primary, Secondary), Science (Secondary), Liberal Studies (Secondary) and Reading.

To further facilitate and encourage the use of our subject-based resources and services at schools, each participant of the seminars will be presented with a USB flash drive containing related resources and testing account information. Participants can enjoy privileged access to try out our services with the testing accounts before official roll-out. Please sign up for the seminars on or before 26 June, 2009 as seats are limited for the sessions.

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