Conditional Tenses

General Conditional
1. If you heat the water to 100 degree, it boils.
2. If you cut your finger, it bleeds.
3. If the temperature drops to zero degree, you feel cool.

Type 1 Conditional
If I practise hard, I will win the competition.
If my mobile rings, she will answer it.
The schools will close tomorrow if there is a black rainstorm.

Type 2 Conditional
1. If I were a football star, I would be rich and famous.
2. If a horse had six legs, wold really fast.
3. If Miss leung taught my class, she would give us lesson homework; but I heard that she is not going to teach us.

Type 3 Conditional
1. If I had studied hard, I would have passed my exam.
2. If I had had enough time yesterday, I would have gone to the park.
3. If she had come to my party, She would have met lots of people.
4. If Joan had changed the light bulb, she would have been able to see clearly in the dark.

1. be was been
   
2. become became become
   
3. begin began begun
   
4. bite bit bitten
5. blow blew blown
   
6. break broke broken
   
7. bring brought brought
   
8. build built built
   
9. burn burnt burnt
   
10. buy bought bought
    
11. catch caught caught
    
12. choose chose chosen
    
13. come came come
    
14. cost cost cost
    
15. cut cut cut
16. dig dug dug
17. do did done
18. draw drew drawn
19. drink drank drunk
20. eat ate eaten
21. fall fell fallen
22. feed fed fed
23. feel felt felt
24. fight fought fought
25. find found found
26. fly flew flown
27. forget forgot forgotten
28. get got got
29. give gave given
30. go went gone
31. grow grew grown
32. have had had
33. hear heard heard
34. hide hid hidden
35. hit hit hit
36. hold held held
37. hurt hurt hurt
38. keep kept kept
39. know knew known
40. lead led led
41. learn learnt learnt
42. leave left left
43. let let let
44. lose lost lost
45. make made made
    

News Vocabulary

• electrical appliances
  
• We must switch off all the electrical appliances when they are not in use.
  
• suffer the consequences 承受後果
• If we break the school rules, we'll suffer the consequences.
• on suspicion of 嫌疑
• Three students were required to see the head master on suspicion of cheating in the exam.
• stringent rules 嚴格的規則
• The principal is considering more stringent rules to prevent cheating.
• take a tough stance/stand 採取強硬立場
• We must take a tough stance against downloading illegally.
• raise/express concerns 引起/表示關注/擔心
• Eight students of 3A class cheated in the exam have raised concerns the behavior of students in our school.
• appear to be / it appears that 看來，好像
• The new class-teacher of our class appears to be friendly.
• show sb mercy 對某人憐憫
• The parents of Jermain show their son mercy over he smoked at school.
• terminate her contract 終止合約
• My father selpt at office and his boss said he will terminate his contract if he sleep in the office again.
• be regulated by law 受法律約朿
• Your talks will not regulated by law in Hong Kong.
• a heated debate 激烈討論
• About 20 students of our school fought the teacher at school yesterday, the students of our school prompting a heated debate of their situation.
• undue delay 過度延誤
• An investigation had shown that the presence of the fungus was caused by an undue delay in turning the drug powder into tablets

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A Strong Complaint

You are Alvin Kam. You are annoyed by the noise made by the government building site next to your flat. The noise does not stop even after the normal working hours, i.e. after 6.00pm. Write to the House Authority of Hong Kong Government and request that the noise should be totally stopped after 6.00 p.m.

Dear Sir,

I am writing to express my extreme dissatisfaction about the annoyed noise of the government building site next to my flat.

On February 15 when I back home on 7 pm, I heard a noisy sound and it maked me annoyed. I looked out of the window and found out the workers of the government building site still working. The workers of the goverment building site making the noise from that day and it dose not stop even after the normal working hours. I could not relax at home after working 9 hours at office because of the noise of your building site. My son told me that he felt annoyed of the noise too and he could not do the homeworks absorbedly.

I really must request, therefore, that your worker of the building site next to my flat stop working and stop making the noisy sound after the normal working hours eveyday. Unless you rectify the siruation, I shall be compelled to ask my lawyer to accuse you without further notice. I look forward to your prompt action.

Yours sincerely,

Alvin

Speech

Topic: Advantages and Disadvantages of Having a Part-time Job to a Secondary School Student


Ladies and gentlemen,

As the chair of the student union, I’d like to talk about the topic, “Advantages and Disadvantages of Having a Part-time Job to a Secondary School Student”

According to the statistic, there are more and more secondary school students getting a part-time job to support their studies. This causes a lot of concerns among the parents and school teachers. It is believed that having a part-time job can affect students’ studies. However, it is also believed that having a part-time job can help students learn different skills through the work. In this presentation, I’d like to discuss both the advantages and disadvantages of having a part-time job for the overall development of secondary students.

Connectives

Fill in the blanks using the connectives: Besides, for example, firstly, secondly, lastly, next, then, similarly, However, Despite, Although, because, because of, so, so that, all in all, in deed.

1. ______All in all_______ it was a success.
2. ____Although_________ it is raining heavily, Paul went out to play football.
3. _______Despite_____ of the heavy rain, Paul went out to play football.
4. He is smart. _____However_______ he often makes careless mistakes.
5. Tourism is very important to Hong Kong. _____Similarly_______, Taiwan relies heavily on tourism.
6. We like John _____because____ he is polite.
7. We like John ______because_____ of his politeness.
8. He is very weak, ____so_____ he cannot carry the heavy box.
9. He wanted to be an actor ______so as to______ be famous.
10. He works longer hours ______so that______ he can make more money.
11. I am hungry; __In deed________ I am almost starving.
12. Hong Kong is a busy tourist centre. ____Besides________ it is an international financial centre.
13. He likes, _____for example_________ watching films, swimming and collecting coins.
14. ___First_____, peel the bananas. ___Secondly____, cut the bananas into small pieces, ____third___ warm the milk. _____Lastly______, add in sugar and vanilla essence.

Exam Items

1. Reading Comprehension
2. Tenses - Grammar Book Unit 1
3. Infinitives and Gerund – Grammar Book Unit 3
4. Reported Speech – Grammar Book Unit 6
5. Connectives – Grammar Book Unit 11
6. Vocabulary - Treasure Plus 3A Unit 1 and Unit 5
7. MC Cloze and Open Cloze
8. Proofreading
B. Writing (Time allowed: 1 hour)
1. Long Task – picture writing
2. Short Task- writing a speech
C. Listening (Time allowed: 45 minutes)
1. Short tasks – MC /filling in form / labeling / ordering
2. Integrated Task
3. TSA listening format
D. Oral
1. Individual Presentation ( 2 minutes)