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Issue 9515 May 2009

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Do you like reading science fictions? Boundless # 4 Science Fiction is out now! You can refer to the mini-site about Science Fiction. You can also find a lot of useful learning resources in English Campus.

 

Boundless

Science Fiction

The fourth issue - Science Fiction - is out now! It includes materials for students and a teaching plan on enhancing students' vocabulary related to science fiction. Visit our Science Fiction mini-site to learn words and phrases about science fiction. Know about what science fiction writers do in Info. Let's learn more about a second hand bookshop which sells science fiction in Local Knowledge.

 

Read

Besides reading science fictions, we should read different types of books. Let's read some abstract of the books in Library.

Book1

The Quest
At last the fishing net lay in the bottom of the boat. Lek stepped forward and opened the net. He picked up the blue and white thing. It was a plate. Lek started to laugh.

 


Book2 The Escape and Other Stories
Maugham takes us from England to France, to Chicago and to the beautiful island of Tahiti.

Roger Charing is engaged to marry Ruth, but he changes his mind. We read how he makes his clever Escape.

Many men fell in love with Louise. But she is selfish and uses her poor health to live as she plesaes.

In the Ant and the Grasshopper, George and Tom are brothers. One works hard and is unahppy. The other is lazy but enjoy his life.

Romance on the Pacific island of Tahiti leads to the Fall of Edward Barnard.

 

Book3 Tales of Ten Worlds
'I work in a space station. From my office, I can see the Earth twenty thousand miles away. It floats in space like a big green and blue ball.'

Arthur C. Clarke tells ten strange science fiction stories. This collection of tales takes us from Earth to Venus, to Saturn and beyond.

 

Book4 Silver Blaze and Other Stories
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson help the police with the strange cases:

The Blue Carbuncle: Two unusal clues for Holmes and Watson to follow -- a hat and a goose!

Silver Blaze: A racehorse disappears before an important race. Holmes has to find the horse and solve a murder.

The Six Napoleons: Why is someone smashing statues of Napoleon? What are they looking for?

 

Ask Graham

AskGraham

Our Native English Teacher, Graham, answers questions on English language. You can find out how to talk about future months in Question 285. Learn more about how to answer yes/no questions in Question 284. If you would want to know more about asking questions, you can refer to the answer of Question 283. There are more answers here. If you have some questions, please feel free to ask Graham!

 

Create

create

Do you enjoy writing essays? You can read others' essays 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
TRAS

"Hong Kong I.T. in Education Symposium 2009" will take place on May 29-30, 2009. The main theme of this year's Symposium is "Learning in the Digital Environment". The Symposium will encourage discussion and experience sharing on five aspects: meeting challenges to the new senior secondary curriculum, digital learning and teaching resources, mobile learning, language learning as well as innovative schools. Our TVnews programme is one of the sharing sessions of the aspect "Language Learning". If you are interested to know more about TVnews progamme, join us at the Symposium.


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