Key Components of Our English Enrichment for Secondary Level
Writing
Your teenager will learn strategies to help them write expository, discursive, argumentative, and mixed genre essays. With our methodical approach to writing, your teenager will learn the features and structure of various essay types. Tips to enhance language, such as the Rule of Three and sentence variety, will be introduced too. To encourage your teenager to reflect on real-world issues, we are extremely particular about the themes we choose for continuous and situational writing.
Comprehension
Summary is a major component that many teenagers struggle with. We arm your teenager with strategies to identify points, rephrase and shorten the points and reorganise their summary in a coherent manner. Question types such as language use questions and answer-in-your-own-words questions are taught explicitly, alongside techniques to answer various types of questions.
Editing
Your teenager can look forward to bite-sized lessons focusing on specific grammar concepts. As the conversion between word forms is often tested in editing, suffixes (word endings such as -ment, -ous) will be introduced systematically. Again, we do not believe in doing boring editing passages as practice. We select current topics that make them question and keep them on their feet—think the recent PMD ban in Singapore and the SCDF ragging incident.
Oral
To enhance your teenager's oral skills, we create plenty of opportunities to discuss intriguing, relevant topics. With the wide variety of themes and topics within our curriculum, your teenager will gain vocabulary, knowledge and critical thinking skills to articulate his or her opinion with ease.
Visual Text
Expect to see familiar-looking visual texts. Visual Texts are everywhere in our lives and we believe that students will find this component meaningful if they can relate it to actual events, advertisements and posters. We teach your teenager strategies to analyse the text and tips on crafting responses.