Our Secondary 4 2021 class will begin on November 1st 3.30pm-5.30pm. Just like the PSLE year, we believe that preparing students early for any major examination is important. In the post below, Tr Rachael, our upper secondary teacher, explores the Conversation part of the O-level oral component. In this second Read more…
Secondary English Oral O-Level: Overview & Reading Aloud At Thinking Factory, every component of the English Language is important. We make the time and effort to help our students score in all their English components, especially in major examinations such as the PSLE and the GCE O-levels. While Secondary 3 Read more…
Gearing up for Secondary 4 English: 5 tips to make a good transition As you cross over from Secondary 3 to Secondary 4, it is never too early to start preparing for your English ‘O’ Levels. Knowing what to expect in your ‘O’ Level year and what gaps you need Read more…
How to tackle the summary Question This is Teacher Rachel’s follow-up post on Tackling summary questions for lower secondary students. Click here to read her first post on How to identify points in summary. The Summary question might seem like a test of your vocabulary skills, and with the time Read more…
Identifying points in summary Like most language components, knowing the correct techniques to help you answer your questions accurately is essential. In this post, Teacher Rachael, one of our secondary school teachers, has prepared a short video, along with a worksheet, to help lower secondary students in the summary writing Read more…
Editing through clue-finding The 10-mark editing section might be a breeze for some and a struggle for others, especially if you’re not familiar with grammatical rules. The good news is that just knowing your grammatical rules does not necessarily lead to a good editing score; knowing how to apply these Read more…
A Sneak Preview of English Writing in the Secondary 2 class At Thinking Factory, we believe that English writing skills are developed over time with consistent practice. That is why we have weekly writing exercises, to help ease away your reluctance or fear when it comes to writing. Beyond that, Read more…
English expository essays : tips to write better essays Overwhelmed by Writing Tasks in Secondary 2? All through English lessons/tests/examinations in primary school you’ve been writing narratives (stories), but at secondary school, a new and potentially daunting text type is introduced – the expository essay (which encompasses discursive and argumentative Read more…