All About English Creative Writing
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Hi TAS
Appreciate if you could help to explain the grammar rules for the following questions taken from one of the P3 2009 exam papers.
1. Benson sees his father only once a month. He wishes his father ___ in Singapore instead of HongKong.
(1) work
(2) works
(3) worked
(4) working
2. The children saw a man _______ a bottle of drink out of the shop without paying just now.
(1) take
(2) takes
(3) took
(4) taken
On top of the above, please advise which is correct for the following:
I heard him cry in the room. OR
I heard him crying in the room.
Many thanks in advance.
Rocklee -
Hi Tas,
I am staying at east too. Would like to send my son in P1 for the Cwc. Please let me know if there is a place for him.
Thanks. -
The Alternative Story:
For the east location (if we do have one), we only have 2 available
classes for now, hence we will open a class for a particular age group
that has the most demand. We should be able to let you know soon if
we do have a confirmed place in the East.
TAS
I thought Tampines is a good location? Education hub there.
British council, Berries, MPM, Tony buzan, LCentral all located in Tampines.
Can share background of your teachers? Are they ex-teachers? Minimum qualifications and how many years of teaching experience?
Can't help but noticed your rapid expansion - from Yishun to Bukit Timah to now possible East branch... can maintain teachers' quality :scratchhead: -
singapore45:
Hi Singapore45,
Thanks!
Katong will be good! When is a probable start date?
The probable start date for the classes will be in 2 weeks' time.
This thursday, we will confirm if we do have the location
in the East and keep you updated.
TAS -
BigDad:
Hi BigDad,Hi TAS,
I want to check with you something When the creative writing book is published, would you let us know through email or something? Haha, very excited, cannot wait to see DS's work. Hope he can get selected. By the way, he really enjoyed today's lesson, he said he learnt a lot!
Sure, we will let you know. So glad he enjoyed the lessons!
TAS -
Hellokitty2:
Hi Hellokitty2,
Ok, will wait for your confirmation. Hopefully, can start soon
We will let you know by Thursday if we have confirmed that we
are starting in the East.:D
TAS -
[quote]Hi TAS
Appreciate if you could help to explain the grammar rules for the following questions taken from one of the P3 2009 exam papers.
1. Benson sees his father only once a month. He wishes his father ___ in Singapore instead of HongKong.
(1) work
(2) works
(3) worked
(4) working[/quote]Hi Rocklee,
For this question, the answer is (2). The reason being
that the whole question is phrased in the present tense.
So the answer will be in the present tense form. The
singular form 'lives' is also used as the emphasis is on
'his father'.
Some children might get confuse and think this is a
verb-noun-verb situation.
Eg of verb-noun-verb(v-n-v):
1) I saw(v) him(n) cry(v)
OR I saw (v) him(n) crying(v)
2) I heard(v) her(n) scream(v)
OR I saw(v) her(n) screaming(v)
In a verb-noun-verb situation, the second verb is always
either in the root form (no 's', no past tense, no 'ing')
or in the continuous form (ing).
For v-n-v, they tend to be action-based
(eg: saw her scream) but for this case, it is a desire-based
(eg: wishes he was still alive).
Hence for this example, the focus is on 'his father' and not
the v-n-v form.
[quote]2. The children saw a man _______ a bottle of drink out of the shop without paying just now.
(1) take
(2) takes
(3) took
(4) taken[/quote]The answer is (1). This is an example of a v-n-v form of
question, hence the second verb is in the root form.
[quote]On top of the above, please advise which is correct for the following:
I heard him cry in the room. OR
I heard him crying in the room.[/quote]This is another example of a v-n-v format. Both answers are
acceptable. The difference is this:
- heard him cry (implies a sudden cry, you heard a cry come from
the boy)
- heard him crying (you heard a bout of continuous
crying)
There are examples where only the root form is allowed:
- made him cry (correct)
- made him crying (wrong)
You can hear a boy crying for a while but 'make' implies
a one time action of making a person cry.
So it cannot be 'make him crying'.
[quote]Many thanks in advance.
Rocklee[/quote]No problem, hope this helps.
TAS -
notfreemom:
Hi notfreemom,Hi Tas,
I am staying at east too. Would like to send my son in P1 for the Cwc. Please let me know if there is a place for him.
Thanks.
Are you asking about classes that are just solely on creative writing
or ones that combine creative writing and paper 2 components
(grammar, vocab, compre etc)?
TAS -
sleepy:
Hi sleepy,
I thought Tampines is a good location? Education hub there.
British council, Berries, MPM, Tony buzan, LCentral all located in Tampines.
Can share background of your teachers? Are they ex-teachers? Minimum qualifications and how many years of teaching experience?
Can't help but noticed your rapid expansion - from Yishun to Bukit Timah to now possible East branch... can maintain teachers' quality :scratchhead:
We did think of that but it is a bit further East, we prefer a
place that is a bit more centralized or in the Marine Parade
area
Sure we will share about the background of the teachers:
they are not ex-teachers (only the founder is)
reason being that we look for 3 key things in the teachers:
- Good content knowledge
- Confident and able to hold a class's attention
- Passion for teaching and excited about teaching children
We find that while ex-teachers are good, not all might
have the quality of being passionate. There is no one style of
teaching that is better or worse. This is just our style that we
have developed and hence we look for teachers that
have these qualities.
If you would like to find out more, you could contact us but in
short, we believe that the intangibles are as important as
the tangibles.
Tangibles: Materials and Content knowledge
Intangibles:
1) Teachers must have a passion for teaching and
for whatever subject they are teaching. For writing, we want
the teachers to love reading and writing. Because we feel
that for students to write well, they must not only learn
the techniques but be able to catch the love for writing and
reading. It is hard to 'transfer' that passion if the teacher
is a good one but only just good at imparting knowledge.
2) The atmosphere in the class is also important.
Of course there must be discipline, but there must also be
a 'excitement' in the air where the students are
motivated to want to do the work, to want to learn.
Most of the teachers are either university graduates or
studying in the university presently. There are a few
who might be from the polytechnics but these are chosen
for their strong foundation in a particular subject.
Most of the teachers have been to schools to teach for
our enrichment programmes.
We have doing less work in schools now as we are focusing
on the centres but most of them have at one point in time
done workshops or programmes in the schools.
We are able to expand because previously we were doing work
in schools before we started the first centre and so have
trained a number of teachers to teach. The teachers are also
continually assessed and they go through regular trainings before
they teach a class.
All of them start off as assistant teachers before they take on
a class by themselves.
TAS -
[/quote]No problem, hope this helps.[quote]
Hi TAS
Thank you very much for your advice. It becomes easier to explain to my kid now. Really appreciate you generous sharing in this forum.
Regards
Rocklee[/quote]
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