KSK English Department Blog

Clipit Competition 3

2009-03-03T20:15:00.000-08:00

Nowadays many HK students indulge in playing TV games, surfing on internet, joining the slimming-beauty programmes, going to karaoke and dating. In fact, there are still a lot of alternatives that they can choose to do after school. Outdoor activities are healthier and cheaper than playing TV games or surfing on internet. From the movie, you may find more infomation to live in healthy way.

Clipit Competition 2

2009-03-03T19:48:00.000-08:00

Everyone in Hong Kong is leading their busy lives. Kids are always neglected by their parents. They are used to dealing with their own problems individually and take care of themselves indepedently. Their parents are becoming strangers and will gradually fade out of their memories.
After watching this clip, you will know more about the stituation.

Clipit Competition 1

2009-03-03T19:33:00.000-08:00

HK is a prosperous city in Asia where seven billions of civilians are living here. Every place is crowded with busy people. However, Hong Kong is also facing different kinds of pollutions which may harm the public health and its worldwide reputation. After watching this movie, you will know more about our environment deteriorated by different kinds of pollutions.

2009-03-03T18:16:00.001-08:00

S4 Reading Exercise 3 (Open cloze questions)
Your school has successfully gained the money from government to change the bad eating styles of students in your school. Write an article to express your views on the ways of spending the money.

Time to change
Paragraph 3

Apart from education, it is suggested that a part of the funding is allocated to reform the menus of our school canteen. The lunch boxes provided from our canteen are eaten by the students everyday. I propose to consult a nutritionist’s professional comments on the choice of ingredients in the lunch boxes. In connection with the change to the lunch box, snacks available for purchase in the canteen should be chosen according to their nutritional values. I am sure that education and the reform of the food menu have to progress in tandem in order to accomplish our goal. I hope my suggestions are of value and feasible to be carried out.

Questions

The writer suggests the school changes the canteen's (1) m_______ . A (2) n _____________ are advised to be employed to decide the food available in the canteen. The canteen should not (3) s_______ snacks with low nutritional values.

Education and reform of canteen's menu should be done at the (4) s_______ time to achieve the goal. Hopefully, the writer's suggestions would be adopted and be (5) p_________ to be taken into action.

2009-03-03T17:31:00.001-08:00

S4 Reading Exercise 2 (Guessing meaning)
Your school has successfully gained the money from government to change the bad eating styles of students in your school. Write an article to express your views on the ways of spending the money.

Time to change
Paragraph 2

To wisely make use of the money granted from the governement, I suggest spending it on both education and change to the choices in the food menus of our canteen. Clearly, our goal is to foster students to eat healthily and stay physically fit. Therefore, education is absolutely required to achieve our goals. It is proposed to launch a “Healthy Eating Campaign” in the coming month, aiming to promote the healthy eating styles to both students and parents. Parents shoulder heavy responsibilities for the health of their kids as students routinely have their meals at home or accompany parents to eat out in restaurants. It is necessary for our school to remind parents that they are responsible for encouraging students to adopt the habit of healthy eating. In the campaign, seminars will be organized and guest speakers will be invited to deliver talks on the topic of healthy eating. Game booths will be set out on the ground floor aiming to conveying the ways of appropriate eating as well as providing entertainment for our participants.

Questions
1. In line 3, what does "foster" mean? ____________
2. In line 5, what does "absolutely" mean? ____________
3. In the above paragraph, which word means "organise"? ____
4. In line 9, what does "routinely" mean? ____________
5. In the above paragraph, which word means "suitable"? ___________

2009-03-03T00:02:00.000-08:00

S4 Reading Exercise 1 (True, False or Not Given)
Your school has successfully gained the money from government to change the bad eating styles of students in your school. Write an article to express your views on the ways of spending the money.

Time to change
Paragraph 1

The number of over-weight teenagers has been rapidly increasing in recent years as most teenagers have established unhealthy eating habits and ignore the importance of balanced diets. One of the major reasons for this circumstance is that many schools provide their students with non-nutritious lunch boxes which are composed of large portions of meat but less vegetables. By continuously eating non-nutritious lunch boxes, students may accumulate excessive fat and lack essential nutrition, which poses serious dangers to their health. In the worst cases, students who are over-weight are susceptible to severe illnesses like heart attack and diabetes. On the other hand, it seems that our schools neglect to promote healthy eating attitudes in their students, providing students with scarce information about the harm of obesity. The result is that students eat whatever they like without any consideration.

Questions
1. The number of over-weight teenagers has been slowly increasing. (T/F/NG)
2. All schools in Hong Kong provide their students with non-nutritious lunch boxes. (T/F/NG)
3. Students who accumulate excessive fat and lack essential nutrition from their meals will
be likely to suffer serious illnesses. (T/F/NG)
4. The writer's school actively promote healthy eating style to students. (T/F/NG)
5. Students eat whatever they like, such as French Fries, Potato chips and hambugars. (T/F/NG)

2008 Halloween Party

2008-12-06T20:14:00.000-08:00

Demonstrating fashion talents, each class has sent one or two representatives who dressed in horrible style. Few of them imitated scary characters in some famous horror movies. Some of them tailor-made their costumes as terrible as they could in order to frighten the audience.

With the rhythm of the strong music, all the performers carried out a cat walk show during the English assembly held on 22th Oct. What you could not imagine was that all the performers walked professionally on the stage and did not feel embarrassed even though they performed in front of so many audience. Thunderous applauses were given by the audience as some of the performers posed like supermodels in the commercials. What a joyful moment all the students have on that that day.

The picture shows the winners of the Cat Walk Show

5B Chan Pak Hei & Chan Hau Tim

Congratulations to all the winners of the catwalk show!

KSK English Corner

2008-12-03T23:32:00.000-08:00

^^A piece of Happy news announced ^^

English Corner has been finished furnishing and now routinely opening for public to use on every Tuesdays. Located in Rm 501, English corner is a welcoming and comfortable place for students to read a large variety of story books, do practice papers, watch latest DVDs movies and play interesting board games.

Equipping with DVDs player and HD television, English corner offers a pleasant place for students to enjoy English movies, which enable them to get more exposure to English. What's more, English corner consists of various types of story books and exercise books which are allowed students to borrow. Students are able to take the advantages of these resourceful materials for their learning. This definitely helps students progress and get significant improvement with sufficient practice.

Besides regular openings, a number of workshops, namely writing, reading, TSA and public speaking examination, are going to be held in the English corner in the coming months. We aim to polish students skills in every strand, for the purpose of training up students to get satisfactory results in examinations. Furthermore, our ultimate goal is to help students establish self-learning skills for their life-long learning.

We look forward to seeing your active participation in our activities and get improvement in the meantime.