A Letter of Advice Your friend, Amy is sending you a letter sharing with you some unhappy experience. She wants to ask for your help. Read the letter and reply her with your suggestions.

• Hi Alvin
  
• I'm very stressed these days. Let me share with you what have happened, so you may give me some advice.
  
• These days, our school is preparing for the open days. I am one of the choir members and I need to stay two days after the school for the choir practice. At the same time, I also need to help to decorate the classrooms for the open days. It takes me two more days after school. The problem is I was so tried after I came home. I went straight to bed. I couldn't manage to study and revise for the tests. So, I failed two tests in the past two weeks. I felt very bad about the results. What shall I do? Please help me. Best Wishes, Amy

Hi Amy!

I am sorry to know that you have failed two tests in the past two weeks. I can understand how bad you feel about the poor result of the test.

From your letter, I can see the problem was caused by your busy preparation for the open day. You spent four days to help out for the school open days. So you should tell the teacher about your busy schedle. I am sure she will understand the situation. Then ask your teacher if she can give you another chance to redo the test.

I hope my suggestion will be helpful to solve your problem. Please write to me again to tell me the resullt of your request. Good luck.

Best wishes,

Alvin

Letter of Advice

A Letter of Advice

Your friend, Amy is sending you a letter sharing with you some unhappy experience. She wants to ask for your help. Read the letter and reply her with your suggestions.

• Hi Alvin
  
• I'm very stressed these days. Let me share with you what have happened, so you may give me some advice.
  
• These days, our school is preparing for the open days. I am one of the choir members and I need to stay two days after the school for the choir practice. At the same time, I also need to help to decorate the classrooms for the open days. It takes me two more days after school.
  
• The problem is I was so tried after I came home. I went straight to bed. I couldn't manage to study and revise for the tests. So, I failed two tests in the past two weeks. I felt very bad about the results.
  
• What shall I do? Please help me.
  
• 
  
• Best Wishes,
  
• Amy

Proofreading Task

A.___the_____ Where is V best place to overlook
B.____of_____ the beauty Victoria Harbour, the most famous V
C._____in____ tourist attraction at Hong Kong? No doubt
D.___selects___ the Peak is the best option. Local Eyes select a
E.___on______ hiking route that starts in the Peak and
F._____go____ went all the way down to Pok Fu Lam Reservoir.

G._____and___ To begin, go to the Peak Tower when
H._____for____ find Lugard Road, our starting point to
I.___along_____ the hike. The scenery by the way is super.

J.____by______Passing on Harlech Road and Lung Fu Shan
K.___will______ View Compass, you may reach Pok Fu Lam
L.____route____ Reservior at the end of the road. It
M.____take____ took about 2.5 hours to walk the 8km trail.

proofreading

1) articles => a/an/the/some/any/singular&plural

2) Subject verb agreement

3) Tenses => active/passive

4) conjunctions => and/but/or/when/since

5) prepositions => in/ on/at/through/past/along/by /from/to/ for/into/with/because of/ due to/

6) 8 parts of speech

7) spelling

8) choice of Vocabulary (collocation)
relevant/related ; ideal/idle;
9) phrasal verb

10) modal verbs => shall/may/might/could/can/should/would/will

11) sentence structure => subject + verb + object + adjunct

12) relative clause =>Tom who is the tallest in the class was sick yesterday; the place where you can find water is the Nile River

Sentence Linking

Join the sentences with the conjunctions or phrases in brackets.

1. Money is very important. Love is very important too. (Both...and...)
Both mney and love are very important.

2. Tom is not at school. His friends are not at school. (Neither... nor..)
Neither Tom nor his friends is at school.

3. Mr Chan teaches us Maths. Mr Chan is our class teacher. ( .... as well as being ...)
Mr Chan, as well as being our class teacher, teaches us Maths.

4. The school team is playing football. Some teachers are playing football too. (Not only .... but also ...)
Not only the school but also some teachers are playing football.

Letter to A Friend

Dear John

How are you? How did you spend your summer? Did you go anywhere? For me, it is an unforgetable summer. I spent two weeks in Japan. The trip is a birthday gift from my parents. Let me share with you some unlucky experiences that I had in Tokyo.

I left Hong Kong on the first of August with my parents and my little sister. We brought our luggage to the airport. The luggage was checked in two hours before we boarded onto the plane. The plane was very full that day.

After four hours, we arrived Tokyo Airport. At the airport, we waited for nearly three hours to claim our luggage. Unfortunately, one of the luggage briefcase was missing. We were told by the air line staff the luggage would be sent to our hotel if they found it.

We waited for a whole day but the airline did not call us. It was very disappointing. We couldn't go out for my birthday party. We all had to spend the day in the hotel. To make thing worse, most of the tickets were in the lost briefcase.

I think it is surely an unpleasant experience. I'll tell you the details when I am back to Hong Kong.

See you soon!

Yours
Alvin