An unsuccessful day out (1B Lawrence Lee)

On Saturday, my best friend and I decided to go for a barbecue in the countryside. We packed our bags, “Fruit, bread, coke, barbecue fork, meat…” We are checking our belongings. I asked my friend, “Hey! Why don’t we bring some rain clothes for us?” He replied, “The Observatory said tomorrow will be a sunny day! Don’t worry!” So, we didn’t pack our rain clothes.

The next day, we set off early at six o’ clock, and went to Sai Kung by MTR and minibus. Unfortunately, we missed the train and minibus and totally waited for half an hour. Finally, we went to Sai Kung. It was already noon. While we were walking along the little road to the barbecue pit and talking, the weather changed to cloudy. We didn’t notice the change.

When we arrived the barbecue pit, the weather became extremely bad but we still didn’t find it. The unluckiest event of the day happened － it started raining when we had just finished setting the charcoal and fire, “Oh! My God!” we cried. We quickly ran to the tuck shop next to the little road as quickly as we could. We were hungry so we ordered some food and drinks.

We waited and waited. The rain finally stopped so we paid for the food then quickly ran to the minibus station before it started raining again. My friend shouted, “I will never believe the weather report of the Observatory!” He kept on complaining so he didn’t see the road. Even worse, he fell down on the ground. He was fully hurt so I called the ambulance.

I thought that was not really bad because I had a free shuttle bus ride (the ambulance!), but at the second I had the thought, the ambulance crashed into a double-decker bus. Oh my!

Class Presentation (Form 2B)

Scene I
Characters: 2 Friends
Setting: Around the school ground.

Friend A: (dazed) Hey, is that Jill and Kelvin’s song?
Friend B: Yes, it is. Have you heard the news about them?
Friend A: No, what happened to them?
Friend B: They were arrested in Tokyo!
Friend A: (shocked) What?! How come?
Friend B: They were found with marijuana.
Friend A: (sadly) What a pity.
Friend B: Yes, I hope they will be OK.

Scene II
Characters: Jill’s Dad and Music Manager
Setting: In the office.

MM: We will not use Jill anymore if she did have drugs.
JD: (In tears) Please give my daughter a second chance.
MM: (angrily) Impossible!!
JD: But…Adidas suggested that “Nothing is Impossible”
MM: That’s enough! The decision is made.

Scene III
Characters: Public, Jill, and Kelvin
Setting: At an public hall.

Public: Why did you go to Tokyo?
Jill: We went to Tokyo for work.
Public: What did you do with Kelvin in Tokyo?
Jill: We needed to produce some songs.
Public: Where did the police find the drugs?
Kelvin: They found drugs in the cigarette.
Public: What is the purpose of your trip?
Kelvin: I go travel with Jill.
People: Will you sing songs again?
Jill and Kelvin: We will sing songs if our music company gives us a chance.

A letter of Advice to Alice (4B Wong Ting Fung)

Dear Alice,
I am sorry to know about your difficult situation. I understand you have lied on your online friend Jimmy because you are not confidence in yourself. You thought you could impress him but you could not imagine he would come to visit you in Hong Kong with his family. I can understand how worried you are if he knew the truth!

I think the only solution is to tell Jimmy the truth. You must send him an email before he comes to Hong Kong. You should explain to him why you did not tell him the truth about yourself but first of all remember to apologize for telling lies.

You can tell Jimmy you are still eager and willing to meet him and his family next month. In my opinion, there is a great chance to be with him face to face.

I actually do not know why didn’t you introduce your real self to him in the first place. You need to be honest and have more confidence. Do believe that you are a person worth knowing. He kept on emailing you without your photo means he does not care about the outlook of a person. He must have thought you were an interesting person with nice characters or you would not be online friends since you met.

Don’t worry! I hope everything will work out fine.

Good luck and best wishes.

Andy

3B Class Presentation

The auction of the bronze animals (rabbit and rat) heads has made the Chinese Government angry as the heads were looted by British and French soldiers in the Second Opium War. Should the heads be returned to China?

1. auction (v / n) 拍賣
2. insulting (v) 侮辱
3. loot (n) 贓物
4. loot (v) 強奪
5. raping (v) 蹂躪
6. the Second Opium War (n) 第二次鴉片戰爭
7. Imperial Garden (n) 頤和園
8. antiques (n) 古董
9. booties (n) 戰利品
10. transported (v) 運送

Words from F.3E’s presentation

1. jab (v)
2. A & E (n) = Accident and Emergency Department
3. Ecstasy (n) name of drugs
4. Ketamins (n) used as anaesthetic in surgery but some people take it as drugs
5. Peer pressure (n) a strong feeling that you must do the same things as your friends do
6. be excluded (v) not befriended by your friends
7. Schizophrenic (adj) having the mental disorder of schizophrenia
8. the drug addict (n) people who take drugs

Radio A Questions

1. Which movie did Professor Mok discuss?
2. In which country is the movie set?
3. What is a slum?
4. Which country gave us Greek mythology?
5. What is your rock?

Detailed written report (4D Lee Ka Man)

Title: Nicholas Nickleby Publisher: Penguin Active Reading
Author: Charles Dickens No. of page: 76

Story/Plot:
Nicholas and his parent – Mrs Nickleby and his sister, Kate Nickleby. They lived together, and they found Uncle Ralph to help them. Nicholas had a job in Dotheboys Hall. He met a friend – Smike, they were good friends, because Nicholas helped him to have a good life. But finally Smike died. They were sad. Also, Nicholas loved a lady, called Madeline Bray. He had found his love at last and they got married.

Setting/Background:
After Nicholas father died. Nicholas had no money, no job and a family to support. His only hope is Uncle Ralph. But Ralph is a cold-hearted money-leader with unpleasant, dangerous friend. Ralph gave Nicholas a job, but the job was very bad, Nicholas saw that the schoolmaster was vicious.

The main male character / hero is called Nicholas Nickleby. He is very helpful, because he helped Smike to have a happy life and let him leave the Dotheboys Hall.

The main female character / heroine is called Madeline Bray. She is a beautiful girl. She is good at art and she loves drawing. Nicholas loves her.

My favourite character is Smike. Because Smike is hard working and he is friendly. Although he was ill, his heart is also full of hope, he wasn’t afraid of dying. He was very optimistic.

The most impressive episode/scene is Happiness at Last. After an arduous time. Nicholas can find his love at last. Frist time Madeline didn’t like Nicholas. Also, she will marry Frank. But after she listened to Nicholas’s conversation, she was very impressed. And they got married finally.

Comments/Reflections: I love this book very much. I love Nicholas Nickleby too. I think he is very brave. He was not afraid of anything. He will help his sister, help Smike. When he saw some wrong things, he will stop it. Also, I think this story is interesting. Because I can see Nicholas, his parents and his friend’s ups and downs. Finally they all were happy.

A letter of Advice to Alice (4B Wong Ting Fung)

Dear Alice,
I am sorry to know about your difficult situation. I understand you have lied on your online friend Jimmy because you are not confident in yourself. You thought that could impress him but you had not expected he would come Hong Kong to visit you with his family. I can understand how worried you are now!

I think the only solution is to tell Jimmy the truth. You must send him an email before he comes to Hong Kong. You should explain to him why you did not tell him the truth about yourself but first of all remember to apologize for telling lies.

You can tell Jimmy you are still eager and willing to meet him and his family next month. In my opinion, there is a great chance to meet them anyway.

I actually do not know why you didn’t introduce your real self to him in the first place. You need to be honest and have more confidence. Do believe that you are a person worth knowing. He keeps emailing you without your photo means he does not care about the looks of a person. He must think you are an interesting person with nice characters or he will not be online friends with you.

Don’t worry! I hope everything will work out fine.

Good luck and best wishes.

Andy

Detailed written report (1B Lai Hoi Ching, Kaite)

The title of this book is ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’. The author of this book is Roald Dahl. The publisher of this book is Qustion Blake. I choose this book for my book report project because it is very funny and my family and I can learn many things through this book.

This is a funny book. Also, it is a family book about George and her grandmother. George, his parents and his grandmother, live on a farm in a small village. The village is far away from the city. Therefore, George has no friends and he always feels lonely. More unfortunately, his grandmother treats him very bad. “You are growing too fast. Don’t eat so much chocolate. Boy who grows too fast will become very stupid and lazy.” His grandmother always tells him. George felt very unhappy with these a lot of things. He thinks he is very useless for his family as he can do nothing right in his grandmother’s eyes. He had a wonderful idea about curing his mother. That was making a medicine. He thought a medicine may cure the wretchedness of her so that he tried.

This story set in the countryside in England. So I think it is suitable for English children and teenagers. Also, I think this book is also suitable for Hong Kong’s children because I think Hong Kong’s children treat their parents very bad and their parents spoil them. They can learn how to get along with their family. That’s the main idea of this book. Moreover, they can learn to be safe at home and not to do dangerous experiments at home like George.

I think this book is very funny. I enjoyed it very much. Even my parents, they read it with me, they also said it is funny. We laughed together. This book makes us spend more time on each other. I don’t like George’s family as I think this family is a weird family. They don’t usually talk with each other. I don’t like this lifestyle. There are many characters in this book, like George, Dad, Mom and grandmother. I like them all. But my most favourite character in this book is grandmother because she is very funny and cranky.

I think the best part of this book was when George was trying to make more Marvellous Medicine, he forgot some of the stuff that he put into the first medicine. It is very exciting. But this book is a bit horrible. Because one of the sences was about grandmother. She went up to the sky but her feet were in the sitting room. Her body was in Geogre’s room. Her face was in the attic roof. It was a little bit scary. I think the author’s use of words is brilliant and his style is excellent, especially when he described grandmother’s evil and her feelings. So I think Roald Dahl is an amazing wrtier. I would read another book by this author. I learnt to be good to my family members. I would recommend this book to all my friends and my relatives.

I thinky this book is very excellent. If I can give marks to this book (ten marks is the full mark). I will give this book nine marks. I think everyone should read this book. You may learn more through this book. You can borrow this book form all of the public libraries.

Detailed written report (1B Peter Pun)

Title: Big Little Bus Publisher: Ladybird Books Ltd
Author: Nicola Baxter No. of page: 24

After finish reading this book, I found this book is inspiring. Why do I say this? It is because……, let me tell you the summary of this book first, then I will analyse the book’s plot. The story is about a little bus and a big bus. They were having a competition: Along the way to the bus terminus, who carried the most passengers is the winner. Then, the little bus started to think: “I can’t win, but I will work with my own effort!” At last, the little bus won! The reason why the littlle bus won is: He worked with his own effort, he hasn’t been lazy from the start to the finish of the competition. I think if we are lazy, whatever what we do, we will have no spirit to do it because we don’t want to pay any effort and time on it. I think we shouldn’t finish something in this way; oppositely, we should pay our whole spirit and time on it, this is the only way of success. I think this book is inspiring because although the little bus was small, it can carry more passengers than the big bus because he didn’t give up, he thoguht he couldn’t win, but he still complete wilh the big bus, at last he won. This story’s main idea is telling us not to think ourself useless; oppoistely; we should pay our whole spirit and time on everything, that way, we will be successful therewise, we will like the big bus, appogant and concited, then, we will not be successful when we are doing everything because you think you are the No. 1, you don’t listen to the others, this is the failure way, we shouldn’t follow it.