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How much are you going to give me?
Whenever I ask my students whether they can answer all the questions I give them correctly, one or two of them will say, "How much are you going to give me if I answer all of them correctly?"I feel very sad because these pupils of mine always think i...
My first educational software
I enjoy programming using dBase 3+ and with this language, I made my first educational software which I called Tekata (short form for Teka Kata or Guess the Word).I store words of 4 letters and 5 letters in a data base with which I ask the user to g...
How I learned Pinyin from my children
I was educated in the old school of thought when Pinyin (a system to denote the pronunciation of Chinese words) was not taught. The chance to learn Pinyin and simplified Chinese came when my eldest son entered Primary 1.I learned together with my chi...
A Job to be Shunned
For today's post, I am going to talk about my experience as a examiner. For most teachers, this is a job to be shunned.I had been an 1119 English examiner for six years before I retired as a government teacher. Come to think of it, I don't how I sust...
Panting for breath after reading
When I was studying in Form 1, my English teacher was Mr Ang Chek Ming. Through him, I learnt the intonation of English words. He was very forceful when he spoke. He encouraged us to listen to English news broadcast over the radio. I could not catch ...
How to prevent cheating by students
Whenever teachers give tests to students there will always be students who try to cheat when the answer scripts are given back to them. It is especially so for questions where students are required to fill in blanks. Some students do not know the ans...
