Finally, I got time to go through this Stellar worksheets with Yu. Compiling the focus of each unit is essential for a quick revision before examination. Noting what Yu is weak at is also needed for me to think of ways to improve his English.
(1) Vocabulary:
Need to know the meaning of the words: circus clowns, doctors, frowns, Majesty, musicians, pageboy, parade, servants
Explained new vocabulary: "doctors making their rounds at hospital", 'cutlery', 'pageboy' and 'royal'.
Yu needed to make sentences with these vocabulary and I noted that:
- He is poor in sentence construction. He tends to construct sentences similar to the sample sentence in the worksheet.
- He does not take care of the tenses. e.g He wrote 'The baby frown' instead of 'the baby frowns'. He also used present tense in first half of the sentence and past tense in second half of the sentence.
- Missing words in the sentence he constructed
Re-iterated to him that he needs to check for missing words, spelling mistakes and punctuation right after he finishes writing each sentence.
(2) This, that, these, thoseHe did not know that fishes in plural form can be just 'fish' and picked 'this' instead of 'these' as the answer.
(3) Could, must, might
(3) Could, must, might
(4) Proper titles
e.g. Prince Patrick, Doctor Paterson, King Peter, Queen Phyllis, Princess Patricia
All proper titles must begin with a capital letter.
(5) "to" + verb + noun
e.g. The boys went to the field. (soccer)
The boys went to the field to play soccer.
(6) Adjectives
Highlighting adjectives in an essay and making sentence with the adjectives.
Clue to an adjective: A noun follows an adjective.
I am surprised to see Yu highlighting verbs and proper nouns as adjectives when he was doing the worksheets.
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