Video Lessons on conditional 'if'

Video Lesson on the First Conditional (Part 1)


Video Lesson on the First Conditional (Part 2)


Video Lesson on 'unless'


Video Lesson on the Second Conditional


Video Lesson on the Third Conditional (Part 1)


Video Lesson on the Third Conditional (Part 2)

Conditional 'if'

Today, you learnt about the first conditional, second conditional and third conditional. Please revise what you learnt in class by reading pages 80-82 of your English textbook again. Here is a quick summary to help you...

First Conditional

• used to talk about a condition that is likely to happen.


• If ... (present tense) ... , ... will + verb ('stem' form)...


• Example [If Tim studies hard, he will do well in the examinations.]

Second Conditional

• used to talk about a condition that is unlikely to happen.


• If ... (past tense) ... , ... would + verb ('stem' form) ...


• Example: [If I were a dog, I would choose to be Scottie.]

Third Conditional

• used to talk about a condition that did or did not happen in the past


• If ... had + (past participle) ... , ... would + have + (past participle) ...


• Example: [If Jack had been an honest boy, he would not have stolen from the giant.]

Please click First, Second and Third Conditionals for more examples.

Listen to this song. Which conditional is used?

Spelling Quiz 7

Pupils with a perfect score in Spelling: Wei Xin, Kelly, Vanessa, Phu, Gordon, Kate and Weng Leng. Well done! There was no dictation this week.

Fractured Fairy Tales

I think I read this story to you when you were in Primary 3?

"The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs' written by Jon Scieszka. The book can be found in the school library.

What are you reading?

Are you reading during the holidays? Mavis mentioned in an earlier comment that she's reading a 'Percy Jackson' book. Have you read any of the 'Percy Jackson' books? I saw Leona reading 'Animal Farm' by Geroge Orwell last week. I remember enjoying that book when I was a kid too. At present, I'm reading John Grisham's 'The Confession'. It's about a man on death row who is innocent of the crime that he was convicted of. What book are you reading? Tell us about it. You can mention the following:

1) Title
2) Author
3) What is the book about?
4) Do you enjoy it?

Learning to Spell Better

There are some strategies on learning to spell better. You can:

• identify root words so that you know how to form new words from them
• use suffixes to make new words and remember them
• find out the meanings of prefixes and use them to form new words
• learn homophones and their meanings
• break words down into sounds (by syllables)
• learn plural spelling rules
• recognise letter patterns in words
• spot the silent letters in words
• learn to differentiate between confusing words

Click on Learning to Spell Better for the whole list of strategies. You can print out the factsheets and file them for revision, try out the quizzes and games.

If you do not have the time to go through the entire list, you must at least check out the
Confusing Words.

After trying the activities, do post a comment to share which strategies you find helpful to you (points for grabs!)

100 Most Often Misspelt Words

I have given you a list of some of the most often misspelt words. Please note that 'neighbor' should be 'neighbour' (British English). Please learn the first column of words for the spelling quiz in Week 1 of Term 2.

Do you remember some of the 'tips' on remembering the spelling of these tricky words? Be the first to comment on any of the words and earn points for your new group!

Holiday Homework

The first term passed very quickly, didn't it? It's time for a break now. However, during the holidays, you should also do some revision.

English
1) Do English Homework Book Unit 5, Worksheet 1 (pages 79-80).
2) Read Unit 5, Worksheet 2 (pages 81-83) and bracket the answers in the text.
3) Learn Spelling.
4) To prepare for Unit 5, Worksheet 3, read English Textbook (pages 80-82) and Grammar Guide (page 102).
5) Read at least 3 English story books.
6) Read at least one news article a day and circle the phrasal verbs and prepositions in the news article.

Online assignments
1) Check the school portal (lead.com) on Tuesday for online assignments.
2) Post a comment to tell us about one of the books you are reading.
3) Check the class blog regularly for onine lessons.

Art
1) Complete your artwork (Colour Wheel).

All assignments are to be completed by 21 March 2011 (Monday).

Han Chu is back!

Han Chu returned to school today after a few months in China. He has missed a lot of lessons but he seems keen to learn and to catch up with his work. He assured me that he had been studying on his own these two months and had done both the written and online assignments given to him. I think he did for he passed his English C.A.1 today when he sat for the paper. Are you glad that Han Chu's back? Don't you think he has grown taller and more... um... well nourished?

Top Scorers in C.A.1

Top in English
Chia Zhi Yi - 96.3%

Top in Mathematics
Odelia Chung - 97%

Top in Science
Victor Ooi - 90%

Top in Mother Tongue
Ng Yuan Kai - 95%

Top in Higher Mother Tongue
Eng Wei Xin - 91.7%

Congratulations!

If you have not done well, do not lose hope. I have talked to you regarding your results and set your target for S.A.1 together with you.

If you have done badly due to your lack of attention and focus, do make up for it during the holidays by spending more time on your revision.

There are a number of you who are not making much progress in English due to the fact that you do not read much. Please make good use of the time during the holidays to read more English books and the newspapers.