WELCOME
TO
SUN KEI SECONDARY SCHOOL
ENGLISH CORNER
ENGLISH WEEK 2007 (23rd
– 28th March): The theme is Animals
Songs about Animals
– Some songs to listen to, sing and talk about.
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Vocabulary
Lists,
games, exercises, crosswords, idioms and more.
Lots of
activities to improve your vocabulary.
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Grammar
Lots of
grammar information, games and exercises.
Find out
your strengths and weaknesses and use these sites to improve your English.
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Reading
Practice your
reading skills.
Lots of
comprehension passages, stories, poems, news items, advice and more.
Jokes and riddles
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Writing
Advice and
Exercises on writing different types of English Texts.
There are also
guides to Punctuation.
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Speaking
Phonics To improve your Phonics skills, click on Phonics Fun.
There are games, videos
and exercises for many of the lessons you have done in Form 1 and 2 Oral
Classes.
Debating? Get some ideas here at Debatabase.
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Listening
These
exercises are from Skillwise, a site which is
mainly for adults but you can also learn from it.
SONGS
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Talk to a Robot Can you have a conversation with a robot? Try
it!
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Movies Meet Petey and Jaydee, and watch “Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde.”
Deck
the Halls – Petey and Jaydee wish you a Merry Christmas.
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The
History of the English Language
All About the English Language
What did
English sound like 600 years ago? Chaucer, the father of English poetry wrote this famous
passage which begins: Whan
that Aprille with his swete
brethe... in about 1390.
You can listen to it, but
can you tell what it means in modern English?
You too can speak in Old English with this Chaucer Translator.
Are you angry with your
friend? The greatest English poet can help you with his Shakespeare Insults - 'Thou art a stinking
pigeon-livered maggot-pie!' Warning - Use with care!
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Puzzles Are you a lateral thinker? See if you can solve these
puzzles.
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Some Recommended Websites
It's Fun to Read This website
has a lot of interesting stories and games. Try it out.
PBS KidsThis is another website with lots
of fun activities to help you improve your English.
Renata's Corner This website has many exercises to help
you with grammar and vocabulary.
If
you make good use of it you will definitely improve your English skills.
Ambleside School Website – A website put together by students at a school in the
Lake District of England - limerick and haiku generators, a silly story engine,
and lots of fun stuff.
World English - Grammar, vocabulary
and comprehension practice, quizzes, games, writing guides, lists of the most
common words in English, speaking and listening resources.
Here
is a site for Harry
Potter fans.
And
for those who prefer Garfield!
My
email address: skssenglish@yahoo.com.au.I
would like to hear from you.
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