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Synopsis of Black Beauty
The story is narrated by a horse named Black Beauty, beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. As a colt Black Beauty lives on a farm with a large meadow with his mother, Duchess. his mother teaches him to always behave well and do his work willingly and to the best of his abilities. At age of four he is 'broken in'. Farmer Grey gently teaches him to get used to new thing such as bits, saddles, horseshoes and many others. He also teaches him not t be startled by loud noises. Then Black Beauty is sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Park. At his new home, Black Beauty serves happily under the care of coachman, John Manly and groom. James Howard. Ginger and Merrylegs become his good friends. After three years at the park, Black Beauty and Merrylegs are sold to Earlshall Park. At Earlshall Park, Black Beauty suffers great pain when the Mistress uses the check rein. A drunk g...
UPSR (Paper 2 - Section A)
To answer this section well, you need to really know three things. Firstly, you are advised to write in the present continuous tense. Therefore, you must know the meaning of the present continuous tense. PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE When we talk about tenses, we are referring to the verbs. In the present continuous tense, the verbs look like this: (singular case) verb 'to be' verb 'ing' is talking (plural case) verb 'to be' verb 'ing' ...
Where to start?
To be able to write grammatically correct sentences in English, first of all, you need to know what is a noun and what is a verb. This is because, all sentences are build up from at least a noun and a verb. Basically, nouns mean the name of everything in this world (people, animals, things and places). Whereas verbs basically refer to actions. Nouns : boy, cat, chair, school Verbs : eat, play, sleep Verb 'to be' : am, is, are In an active sentence, you will start with a noun which is followed by a verb: Eg: (noun) (verb) [ A cat ] [ eats ] fish. Eg: ...
Step by Wicked Step (The Text Book)
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls...introducing the new novel text book for form 5 students Step by Wicked Step, written by Anne Fine.
Step by Wicked Step (by Anne Fine)
Starting from 2011, the form 5 students will have to learn a new novel. The Pearl will be a history. For the students in Selangor, the novel that they have to learn is Step by Wicked Step written by Anne Fine. Yesterday, I bought the Step by Wicked Step text book which has a different look from the one that I posted here. It is quite funny the way they use the illustration of people's feet stepping on stairs on the book cover, since it has nothing to do with the content of the story. I am going to finish reading the book first. Then only I could offer a further discussion on each aspect of the story, and think of the best approach to help students to understand the novel.
