Word Collocation - An effective Way to Learn English Vocabulary

VERB PHRASE

• verb + noun (e.g. enhance vocabulary, increase responsibility)
• verb + adjective +noun (e.g. sustain great interest, retain your responsibility)
• adverb + verb (e.g. carefully check, happily consult )
• adverb + verb + noun (e.g. naturally learn your vocabulary)

NOUN PHRASE

• adverb + adjective + noun (e.g. highly regarded principal )
• adjective + preposition + noun (e.g. serious in learing English)
• noun + noun (e.g. vocabulary book)

How Can Dogs Help to Improve English in School?

Learning English can be fun with a pack of dogs. To make learning more interesting, Ling Liang Primary School at Ma On Shan allowed dog owners to take their dogs into the classroom.

Students learned animal related words to improve their English. They spoke English to the dog owners about the dogs. They also talked to each other exchanging their experience in raising dogs.

The practice is useful to raise students' interest in dogs and English. Once students take a futher step to relate learning into their daily life, their English can be improved.

My Comments About The Best of Clavin and Hobbes

It's an interesting story, because Calvin is very funny.

Calvin told his dad some dumb lies that didn't really make sense. Calvin blamed Hobbes for tying him up for a ransome. How can Calvin tie himself up without the help of others?

Maybe Calvin and Hobbes were just playing and joking on each other.

Camp Poem

Finding the way to the right way
I like camp because it's fun
Nothing I really really like
Dealing with cabin mates
Interested in archery
Never scream at night time
God is always taking care of us
The sessions are great
Wonderful camp
Act in the right way
Yahooooooooooo, I love camp

Alezheimer Disease

Alzheimer disease is not a well known disease in Hong Kong. But it is getting more attention. More and more hospitals provide the related service to help old people who suffer from the disease. About 4.5 million people are suffering from the disease in American. Scientists estimated that about 222,300 of them live in Illionis.

A Yes-Mom Girl

Allison is a young, beautiful, but greedy. She has a witty and smart mother. She is always obedient to her mom. Everyday she does her homework before her mom comes home. She also helps to empty the dish washer. She always makes her mom feel good.

Her mother doesn't care much about Allison. She is only interested in herself. She is sometimes silly, she would pay Allison money as long as Allison tells her good things about herself.

One day, Allison's friends invited her for a movie. She asked her mom for the movie money. Her mom asked, "Did you empty the dishwasher? Did you do your homework?" Allison said, "Yes, mom."

She then asked Allison if she looked young for her age, and if Allison's friends thought she was witty and smart. Besides, she also asked if Allison thought she was the best mother in the whole world. Of course, Allison pleased her by saying, "Yes, mom."

Her mom was so pleased with the answers, and immediately she gave Allison the movie money and asked her to be back home by five.

Allison got the money she happily freaked out and watched the movie with her friends. But when her friends heard her stories, all of them despised Allison and told her that nobody liked a yes-mom girl.

Water:Friend or Foe

Water can be our friend, but it can also be our foe. We need water to survive, but our lives can be threatened by water.
We drink water everyday to keep ourselves healthy, we use water to clean ouurselves and our surrondings, and we sometimes travel on the water to different places.
Water can threaten our lives. Water can flood the lands and farms, for example, the tsumami in 2005 took lots and lots of peoples lives, and destroyed house and land.
We can't really tell if water is our friend or foe.