2009年12月18日 星期五

Interview Practice

1. General introduction and Character

Can you introduce yourself?
My name is Sally Kam. I'm eleven years old. I am the youngest in my family. I have an elder brother studying F4. My father is a business man and my mother helps him to run the business.

I can play piano and I am taking the Level 3 piano exam between April and May. I practice playing piano for about half an hour every day.

In my spare time, I like skiing because I feel great when I ski. I have a good relationship with my classmates. We always play volley ball together during the lunch break, and most of my classmates like me very much because they think I am very kind to them.


2. Academic results
I've got good results in my studies.




3. Skills

2009年11月13日 星期五

New Words I Learnt

available可用的 (adj) Toys and chess sets are available in the playroom.
application forms (noun) Application forms are available at the office of the centre from 13th, November.

2009年10月23日 星期五

Making Mango Pudding

  1. First put the sugar and pudding flour into the water
  2. stir and mix them together.
  3. Pour the mixture into a big bowl
  4. Boil the mixed water
  5. Add the mango pieces and the milk into the bowl
  6. Pour the finished pudding mixture into the small containers and put them into the fridge.

Test Contents

  1. Step Up 6A ( Unit 1, 3, 4)
  2. Intensive Practice 6A ( Unit 1, 3, 4) Could or would you like...either or/Neither nor
  3. Step Up Grammar 6A (Unit 1, 3, 4) Phrasal verbs, ought to/ should,

2009年10月16日 星期五

Tom's Dinner

It was 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Tom was back home from school. He was hungry. He went into the kitchen to look for food. He could not find any cooked food. But he saw a lot of uncooked food.

He wanted to cook food for his parents. He thought about cooking like a chef. He started cooking a lot of food. He left all the cooked food on the table in the sitting room.

When his parents came home, they were surprised to see the food. They had the food for dinner together but the food tasted bad. Tom felt sorry about it, but his parents said that he got the experience and he could cook better next time.

2009年10月9日 星期五

Luxury Mooncakes奢華

The giving of presents is an age-old tradition in China. Giving mooncakes to relatives and friends as a symbol of their love, concern and friendship is very common during the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, mainlanders now seem to be giving mooncakes worth thousands of dollars or even replacing edible mooncakes with gold, silver and gems of a similar shape. Is this kind of “mooncake” merely to show respect for the recipient?

Mooncake packaging waste on an individual basis seems unimportant (insignificant) but it accounts for 20 percent of the total waste on the mainland, according to China Sina News. It is estimated that it requires 400 to 600 trees with a diameter of 10 centimetres or above to produce 10 million mooncake boxes.

To address this problem, a law came into effect in June this year to limit the cost of mooncake packaging to less than 25 percent of the cakes’ cost. The volume of packaging is also required to be 35 percent of the total volume of pastry.

But stiff regulations are no match for people’s creativity. Some manufacturers are now producing mooncake-shaped gold, silver and gems as luxury gifts. One such “golden mooncake” sells for 30000 renminbi.
Source: The Standard, 28th September, 2006

2009年10月2日 星期五

Liza's grandmother is eighty-five years old. She is still heathy and strong. When asked how she keeps herself fit, she says that she sleeps seven hours a day. She always takes a short nap in the afternoon. She never sits still. In fact, she is always busy doing something in the house.

This grandmother of eight children and thirty grandchildren still goes for a walk in the evening. She may even out walk many people of younger age. She does not overeat. Her usual diet is rice, fish, and vegetables. She seldom eats anything that has too much sugar in it. She says that it is not good for health.


My grandmother is seventy years old. She is still healthy but not very strong. She is good at knitting. When asked how she knits so well, she says she knits nearly everyday. She always knits for her grand children. She never sits still. In fact, she is always busy knitting.

My grandmother has one son and two grandchildren. She stays at home most of the time. She is not an out going person. Although she has a lot of friends, she does not meet her friends very often. She prefers playing Mahjong games on the home computer to going out playing the Mahjong games with her neighboring friends.