Books I Recommend - Continued

6. Which Uniform?
This is an easy book to read, (P.2-3 standard) and good to read with P.3's reader "Sam's New Clothes". The book tells you different kind of uniform you can see in different schools (summer and winter), from different uniform groups (Cub Scout and Brownie). You will find it interesting to know a lot more about different uniform!


7. What's for Dinner?

It requires basic fluency of English to read this book (P.4 standard) and it's a good book to read with P.3's reader "Midnight Snacks" and P.4's reader "What's Cooking at the Zoo?". This book brings you to different restaurants where different cuisines are served. There are dishes from Thailand, China, India, and many more countries. You will explore more menus and dishes. If you like food and cooking, this is the book you can't miss.

If you want to read these books you can come to me and borrow it for one day. These books will be available in the library soon.

Books I Recommend

Recently I am tidying up the books in the English Room and hope to provide more interesting story books for you to borrow from the Library. As I tidy the books I found some books which I would like to recommend to you.

1. My Travel Scrapbook - My Visit to Boracay
This book is quite advanced and for students who have fluent English. (P.5-6 standard) This is a first-person story about visiting Boracay, a sun and beach paradise in the Philipines. As you read the book you feel like travelling too! If you love travelling around and like sun and beach, you may find this book an enjoyment to read.

2. My Holiday Scrapbook

It is another holiday scrapbook, but suitable for students who enjoys reading easier stories (P.3-4 standard). This book tells you a girl's visit to Australia. It features a lot of photos to help readers' understanding to the story. If you like Koala Bears, have been or wish to visit Australia, you will find this book interesting.

3. Land of the Dinosaurs

This is a fiction about dinosaur, the pre-historic animals whose fossils can be seen in museums only. This book is quite easy to read. (P.3-4 students, some P.2 students can try, too). Few children went to a place and they saw a lot of dinosaurs, they took a lot of photographs of them. If you are interested in dinosaurs this book is your book to read.

4. A Bird from Siberia

This book is for studnets who have fluent English. (P.4-5) And it is good to read with P.4's reader "Flying South" because it talks about a Black-faced Spoonbill called Bill and his journey from Siberia, northern Russia, to a warmer place, Hong Kong. You will feel like flying and travelling with Bill. If you are interested in birds and want to know how they migrate, you will find this book interesting to read.


5. Meeting Anthony

Suitable to P.3 students who want to practise their TSA Oral, this book introduces a new friend called Anthony to you. By asking Anthony questions, you know the family and life of Anthony. Reading the story aloud helps you with your oral practise and it is an easier and happier way to help yourself with TSA.

Cycling Fun

I had a very healthy and outgoing Easter holiday. I went hiking with my friends. We walked from Tung Chung to Tai O, it was tiring but fun. Two days later I went cycling with my friend again. We cycled in Tai Po and we went to Lam Tsuen, where you can find a "Wishing Tree". You can make a wish by throwing a piece of red paper tied with a tangerine up to the branch of the tree.

On our way to Lam Tsuen we saw these beautiful flowers at the side of the road. They were so colorful. I could not resist so I stopped and took picture with them.

It was a lovely holiday because I had a lot of exercise.

How are airplanes assembled and painted?

I watched this video today and I realised it's quite interesting to see airplanes assembled and painted. It's like making models! This video is about Dragonair A330, from parts, to a plane, to a painted plane.

Let's Learn Some Sign Language

I found some video clips about sign language, you can watch them and learn some.

Sign language is very useful because it helps you communicate with the mute and deaf. Sometimes, some universal sign language can help you break the language barrier and communicate with people from other countries.

Enjoy the videos.

26 alphabets in sign language.


"Imagine" in sign language

Rap that announcement!

How many times have you listened to an aircraft announcement? Well, every time you go on board a flight you must hear an announcement telling you the basic information. Sometimes it's quite boring to hear because it is all about the same thing. And yes, this flight attendant has the same feeling about boring aircraft announcement, so, he did this - RAP this out!



The first minute of the video was about David Holmes, the flight attendant of Southwest airline, introducing himself and inviting the passengers to clap a beat for his rap, as you watch the video, you can also refer to the following lyrics (it's only part of the rap, I only managed to find that much on the Internet).
"I've had five flights today and I can't do the regular boring announcement again otherwise I am going to put myself to sleep."

"Shortly after take-off, first things first/there's soft drinks and coffee to quench your first"

"Carry-on items go under the seat/in front of you so none of you have things by your feet.

"Before we leave, our advice is/put away your electronic devices."

"If you have a seat on a row with an exit/we're gonna talk to you so you might as well expect it. You gotta help us out in case we need you/if you don't want to then we're gonna reseat you."

"I didn't know how they were going to react, but I like to have fun at work. People started getting off the plane and said to me 'that's the first time I have listened to the emergency instructions'."

Speaking after the break down, David Holmes said he was worried how the passangers would react, but was satisfied in the end.
By the way, do you know David Holmes, the flight attendant in our story, shares the same family name with one of the most famous novel character?

Something about the weather

It's quite breezy these days. And Easterly wind dominates, that means the wind is blowing from the East. So, what will happen if we have strong east wind? The east of Hong Kong will be cooler and the west of Hong Kong will be hotter. Why is that so? It's because there are hills (the tallest one is Tai Mo Shan) at the centre of the New Territories which block the wind from blowing to the west and cooling the land.
As you can see from the picture above, the numbers show the temperature in degree Celsius in Hong Kong. You can see that the temperature at the east is lower than that of the west.