It is really helpful when a child loves to read and is self-motivated. Hence I applaud your efforts to read both Chinese & English books to your son on a regular basis. It will certainly stimulate him to learn and become effectively bilingual in the future. For me, I would bring my child to the library once every week so that she can find a book and read quietly on her own. After that, I will ask her to share with me on the books she read and discuss about the story, characters and talk about her opinion. I believe the interaction is very essential here. If you have the time to read and teach her, I don't think sending her to berries is necessary.


PS - It is also very important that you speak standard English and proper Chinese so that the child can learn correctly and effectively. This means that as parents we have to keep learning too. I have heard parents speaking to their children with a mix of Chinese and English which is not right. I know a friend who speak English to her daughter while her husband will use Chinese for communication. The child is speaking both languages very well now.

lgerline:

My son is in N2 berries and has been doing pretty well. During one of the makeup lesson (1-1 teaching), the teacher let him read K1 book and he was able to read well. I have been reading to him every night, both English & Chinese so I know his standard well enough. I am thinking of discontinue Chinese lesson next yr and let him spend time on other area like music or speech/drama(can only afford 1 -1.5hr on a Sunday). Should I continue with berries or my daily reading is sufficient? Any comment is welcome. :thankyou:

The title of the essay writing is '让我意想不到的一件事'.


One of the keywords here is '意想不到'.

I believe that the child's storyline is relevant because she expected herself to top the competiton but was surprised not to do so in the end due to her bad judgment. Well, the stumble was unexpected, the result was even unexpected hence I feel the content is good and safe. Cheer

sammifan:

GLORYmum:

[quote=\"Lilo\"]
GLORYmum:
My DD came out \"bin-or-or\"...she has a few qtn answers wrong liao...she did \"ming ti\" also...she wrote abt sports day, she is the best runner, over confident, took her own sweet time to run, others caught up and when she tried to catch up she tripped over something and fell...I hope she didn't write as \"yi jian nan wang de shi\" :nailbite:

Lilo

ming ti is about something that u didnt expect to happen but in this case im sry but i think ur dd li ti le[/quote]

Both are very good stories.


I thought your daughter's storyline is even better than the previous one. If I were the examiner, I would be very impressed with the thoughfulness and selfless act of a 12 yrs old child ('s thinking process in the compo).

mkwek:

cheeerynne:

Hi:) i just wanted to ask whether writing this is out of point for question one of the compo:) i wrote the school organised a sports carnival. My good friend and itook part in it together. Everyone thought she was kind but at the ending point, she pushed me onto the ground and everyone was shocked beacuse she was known to be kind. Everyone chang :scared: ed the view of her afte.r this incident

Hi
My DD wrote something similar.She wrote during the school carnival they played the 3 legged game. Her competitors tripped and fell.Instead of going ahead she went back to help her competitors.The spectators gave her a rousing applause and thereafter she reflected on the joys of helping others.

My DD friends told her she wrote out of point because it is not an unexpected event.I am worried for her now.

That is a very interesting point for us (parents) to reflect.

rains:

I'm starting to get really disgusted with people who tell others they wrote out of point. They marked psle compositions before is it? Who are they to judge if their classmates' compo is out of point?

I think the compo on helping your competitors in a competition is really unexpected. It fits the title perfectly.

I'm getting really disgusted with all those people who try all ways and means to demoralize others during psle.

My dd told me her classmates told her her compo was ridiculous for English paper 1 and she cried before she did paper two.

I told her not to tell her friends what she wrote for Chinese paper one today. Well, she didn't listen to me. She said she told her friends she wrote three pages. I asked her,\"Did they tell you they wrote four and five pages?\"
She said yes.

And you have these children who tell you every paper is \"super easy lor\". I told her,\"Go and ask them how they found tomorrow's and Wednesday's papers. They will also tell you \"super easy lor\" before they take the papers!\"

Why are children so scary and scheming these days? Instead of telling their friends \"Don't worry la. You'll be fine. Your story is creative\", they say \"you are going to fail/flunk\" so that you will be affected and do badly for the next or remaining papers.

Expressing your opinion is one thing, but hasn't anyone taught them to shut their trap if they got nothing edifying to say?