Golf Playing

I love golf playing. Golf playing is interesting to me. I play golf twice a month with my father. My father is good at it. He instructs me how to do the swing. Swinging is the basic skill that I must learn before I can learn other golf skills.

I think golf playing is an interesting game because it is not difficult to learn but it is difficult to be very good at it. It also requires patience. Without patience, we can never be good at it.

I believe we must also practice playing golf regularly. I play golf twice a month but my father plays more frequently. So he can play better than me. I enjoy talking with my father when we play together.

There are a number of skills and rules in golf playing. I have learned swinging the golf ball for about one year. Playing the ball from the teeing ground into a hole by a stroke or successive strokes will take me another year.

Anyway, I really enjoy playing golf. It helps me become more patience. I also make new friends. I believe I will be better at playing golf if I continue playing golf with my father.

Superstition Belief

My grandparents were born in China. They moved to Hong Kong when they got married. But they have some beliefs that are superstitious to us. We think their thoughts are not always based on reason. One of the superstitious things that we don't believe in is the worship of ancestors.

Tenses

1. Many social changes have redefined men's roles in the family. (present perfect)
2. Before the 1970s, few men had studied cooking in school.
3. Women traditionally have had most of the responsibility for keeping house and raising children.
4. The new courses in this area, introduced in recent years, have appealed to more and more boys.
5. By the year 2025, many men as well as women will have used these skills at home and in their careers.

Things to Study

Part A Reading and Grammar Usage：

1. Reading Comprehension

2. Tenses - Grammar Book Unit 1

(simple present / present continuous / present perfect / simple

past / past continues / past perfect / simple future )

3. Agreement – Grammar Book Unit 2

4. Connectives – Grammar Book Unit 11

5. Vocabulary - Treasure Plus 3A Unit 1 and Unit 3

6. Open Cloze and MC Cloze

7. Proofreading

Part B Writing：

Short Writing Task

Tenses Exercise

A. Fill in the right forms of the verb in the blanks.

1. He __washes_______ (wash) his bike by himself.
2. My friend sometimes ___plays_______ (play) with his uncle.
3. I like to _talk_________ ( talk ) with the actor.
4. My friend often _goes_________ (go) shopping.
5. My mother __cooked_________ (cook) the dinner last weekend.
6. My coaches ____are swimming_____________ (swim) in the sea.
7. We _finish_____(finish) doing our homework before dinner everyday.
8. My younger brother ___ate______ (eat) three apples yesterday.
9. One of my friends ___likes________ (like ) to play the guitar.
10. Can you _run_ (run) two miles ?
11. The teacher __had___ (have) a headache.
12. They ___watch_________ (watch) a movie every week.
13. Does it __snow___ (snow) outside?
14. He often _takes______ (take) his umbrella with him.
15. My good friends __stayed________ (stay) in a good hotel last week.
16. I was very happy to __play_______ ( play ) in the park yesterday.
17. My friends often _bring_________ (bring) his books to read.
18. The workers _washed__________ (wash) his car last weekend.
19. Tom and Jerry _are climbing____ (climb) the hill.
20. I _finish_____(finish) practice playing piano before dinner everyday
21. My aunt _cooked___ ( cook) lunch with me yesterday.
22. One of my uncles _doesn't like_ (not like ) to play the guitar.
23. Did you _fly___ (fly) by plane last week ?
24. The teacher __doesn't have__ (not have) a headache.
25. They __don't watch______ ( not watch) a movie every week.
26. Did it __rain______ ( rain) outside?
27. He often _rides________ (ride) bike by himself.
28. My best friend _lives_________ (live) with his uncle.
29. I like to _travel_________ ( travel ) to USA.
30. My friends often __go____ (go) shopping.

Preposition Task

Fill in the blanks with the right prepositions.

Dear Mr Lam,

Re: Cleanliness _on___ staircase around the lobby _of___ Whamco Gardens

I am writing to complain about the uncleaned building and not regularly removed rubbish _around__ the lobby of our building.

I would like to draw your attention _to____ the fact that the staircase and lobby have not been cleaned _for_____ at least ten days. Therefore, they are very dirty. Besides, the rubbish collection has not been improved. __On_______ Sundays when we are _at__ home, there is rubbish piling __up_____ the staircase all day _until______ evening. We find that such an environment is very unpleasant to live __in_____.

Could you please inform us what the regular cleaning schedule and rubbish collection schedule __for__ the building are? We would also like to know whether there is any provision _for_____ extra cleaning in the case _of_____ bad weather or construction work _in___ the building.

We are paying what seems to be a hight amount _of____ management fees considering the standard _of_____ service that we receive.

I await your answer and a considerable improvement _in____ the cleaning service urgently.

Yours sincerely,


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Sentence Structures

1. Simple sentence (one verb only)
One day Tortoise went for a walk.
She saw a hippopotamus by the river.

2. Compound sentence (two or three verbs combined by and, but, or)
I felt so good, I decided to sell flags myself.


3. Complex sentence (more than two or more verbs linked by because, when, that, who)
Last month, my friend was very sad because her pet died.