Ella walked into her storeroom. She is carrying a comic book she had bought from a comic bookshop. And she was putting her comic book into the storeroom.
"Cool!" siad Ella's friend, Charles who was visiting her this summer. "We can read comic books this summer.
"It's going to be a clubhouse for my comics fans! Ella said, thinking about the comic she had just read.
"What does the club do?"
"You'll see when you come inside," Ella replied, picking up the comic and walking into the storeroom. Charles followed.
Suddenly the room began to shake and shake and shake. When it stopped, they tumbled out.
A mini Doraemon walked towards them. It was red in colour. It has two short legs, but it was smiling at them.
The comic book flew into the sky and it dropped onto Doraemon's head. Then Doraemon lay down and fell asleep.
"It's taking a nap," Ella said with amazement.
"Let's leave the room!" Charles whispered. They stepped out of the room....
2009年7月16日 星期四
2009年5月27日 星期三
Simile: An indirect relationship where one thing or idea is described as being similar to another. Similes usually contain the words “like” or “as,” but not always. The simile in line 10 describes the lunar eclipse: “The moon appeared crimson, like a drop of blood hanging in the sky.”
The character’s gait is described in the simile: “She hunched and struggled her way down the path, the way an old beggar woman might wander about.”
Repetition: Where a specific word, phrase, or structure is repeated several times, usually in close proximity, to emphasize a particular idea.
Rhyme
The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. The following stanza of "Richard Cory" employs alternate rhyme, with the third line rhyming with the first and the fourth with the second:
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him;
He was a gentleman from sole to crown
Clean favored and imperially slim.
Personification (II) Where an abstract concept, such as a particular human behavior or a force of nature, is represented as a person.
The character’s gait is described in the simile: “She hunched and struggled her way down the path, the way an old beggar woman might wander about.”
Repetition: Where a specific word, phrase, or structure is repeated several times, usually in close proximity, to emphasize a particular idea.
Rhyme
The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. The following stanza of "Richard Cory" employs alternate rhyme, with the third line rhyming with the first and the fourth with the second:
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him;
He was a gentleman from sole to crown
Clean favored and imperially slim.
Personification (II) Where an abstract concept, such as a particular human behavior or a force of nature, is represented as a person.
2009年4月29日 星期三
Sentence Writing
The bus driver was cranky.
The annoyed driver shouted angrily at the passenger who was eating on the bus.
The ice cream was good.
The creamy dark chocolate ice cream tastes really yummy.
The annoyed driver shouted angrily at the passenger who was eating on the bus.
The ice cream was good.
The creamy dark chocolate ice cream tastes really yummy.
2009年4月22日 星期三
2009年4月15日 星期三
The Sunrise
At the dawn of life
When it is time to say hello,
A sunlight appears on the horizon.
When dreams have been realized
And the heart a moist land,
The red sky cried out its happiness.
In poetry, we can create imagery (sunlight), or picture (sky), easily and effectively.
We can also use metaphors (sunlight, land, sky, happiness), the reader automatically sees pictures of the things being compared.
When it is time to say hello,
A sunlight appears on the horizon.
When dreams have been realized
And the heart a moist land,
The red sky cried out its happiness.
In poetry, we can create imagery (sunlight), or picture (sky), easily and effectively.
We can also use metaphors (sunlight, land, sky, happiness), the reader automatically sees pictures of the things being compared.
2009年3月11日 星期三
Revision Tasks
Comprehension
Vocabulary &
Grammar Items
Vocabulary &
Grammar Items
- Tenses
- present simple
- present continuous
- past continuous
- past perfect and present present perfect
- future simple
- ed/ing adjectives
- prepostitions
- articles
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