Observation & Logic 观察与逻辑

Observation and Logic. 观察与逻辑. Guānchá yǔ luójí. Spot the differences between the two photographs of the boy. Chinese and Hanyu Pinyin: 您能在男孩的两张照片中发现差异吗? Nín néng zài nánhái de liǎng zhāng zhàopiàn zhōng fāxiàn chāyì ma? Thai: คุณสามารถสังเกตเห็นความแตกต่างในรูปถ่ายสองรูปของเด็กชายได้หรือไม่? Maori: Ka kitea e koe nga rereketanga o nga whakaahua e rua o te tama? Malay: Bolehkah anda melihat perbezaan antara dua gambar budak lelaki itu? Look carefully at the diagram here. Can you spot anyone not wearing a mask? Mandarin: 請仔細查看此處的圖。你能發現沒有戴口罩的人嗎? Hanyu Pinyin: Qǐng zǐxì chákàn cǐ chǔ de tú. Nǐ néng fāxiàn méiyǒu dài kǒuzhào de rén ma? Thai: ดูแผนภาพที่นี่อย่างละเอียด คุณสามารถมองเห็นใครก็ตามที่ไม่สวมหน้ากาก? Maori: […]

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The Bayeux Tapestry 贝叶挂毯

History of England - The Bayeux Tapestry - 贝叶挂毯 - Bèi yè guàtǎn One of the many topics of English History in schools is the Battle of Hastings, which happened in 1066, where the Normans conquered England, in the Battle of Hastings. That battle was the rivalry between the Anglo-Saxon King of England, Harold II, also known as Harold Godwinson, and the Duke of Normandy, William (later to be crowned King William I of England, also known by the name of William the Conqueror). Both these men plus another distant relative of the dying King Edward the Confessor (in the […]

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Practice Our Mandarin

Practice our Mandarin. 练习我们的普通话. Liànxí wǒmen de pǔtōnghuà. Notes: There are many Chinese grandparents in our community who are looking after their young grandchildren. Often they fail to properly communicate with each other.   The seniors speak Mandarin while the younger ones prefer to talk in the English language.  The following article, written in English with Chinese translation serves to help bridge this communication gap.   Additionally, in order to facilitate the younger ones to pronounce the Chinese characters, the article provides a translation in Romanised Chinese or Hanyu Pinyin. This will enable the younger ones to try to […]

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Literature Study Notes

English Literature Study Notes. 英语文学学习笔记. Yīngyǔ wénxué xuéxí bǐjì. If you have secondary school students in your home, it is to their benefit with their English Literature studies to look at the website: www.sparknotes.com 如果您的家中有中学生,则可以在以下网站上搜索答案,这对他们的英语文学学习有利于他们:http://www.sparknotes.com Rúguǒ nín de jiāzhōng yǒu zhòng xué shēng, zé kěyǐ zài yǐxià wǎngzhàn shàng sōusuǒ dá’àn, zhè duì tāmen de yīngyǔ wénxué xuéxí yǒu lìyú tāmen:http://www.sparknotes.com Just consider one example in answer to the question from a student: “Please help me with my assignment on the literature book ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ by Robert Lewis Stevenson.” 仅考虑一个示例,回答学生的问题:“请帮助我完成罗伯特·刘易斯·史蒂文森的文学著作《杰基尔博士和海德先生》。” Jǐn kǎolǜ yīgè shìlì, huídá xuéshēng de […]

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E-Learning is here, forever

Starting this year, we need to learn each subject or lesson online via the Internet. This has become necessary due to the coronavirus COVID-19. 从今年开始,我们需要通过互联网在线学每个课目或课请。由于冠状病毒COVID-19,这变得很有必要。 Cóng jīnnián kāishǐ, wǒmen xūyào tōngguò hùliánwǎng zàixiàn xué měi gè kèmù huò kè qǐng. Yóuyú guānzhuàng bìngdú COVID-19, zhè biàn dé hěn yǒu bìyào. The Friday 14th August 2020’s edition of the New Zealand Herald, on page A35, has an article written by Caro Rainsford, is relevant and we can read this through this link: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12355935 Covid or not, digital learning is here to stay. 2020年8月14日,星期五,《新西兰先驱报》第A35页,其中有一篇由卡洛·雷恩斯福德(Caro Rainsford)撰写的文章是相关的,我们可以通过以下链接阅读:https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news /article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12355935 是否COVID,数字学习将继续存在。2020 Nián 8 yuè 14 rì, […]

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MAORI LESSON 3a, TORU CLASS 29 07 2020. with Chinese 毛利语言,第3课a,TORU, 29 07 2020 使用中文

“Maori Language and Culture should be a compulsory subject in all New Zealand schools.” “在所有新西兰学校中,毛利人的语言和文化应该是强制性的。” In Hanyu Pinyin for learners of the Chinese Language: “Zài suǒyǒu xīnxīlán xuéxiào zhōng, máolì rén de yǔyán hé wénhuà yīnggāi shì qiángzhì xìng de.” Let us start this lesson with the homework given to the class to do for the seven days from 29th July to 4th August. 让我们从7月29日至8月4日的7天课上的家庭作业开始本课. Hanyu Pinyin (for those wanting to learn Mandarin): Ràng wǒmen cóng 7 yuè 29 rì zhì 8 yuè 4 rì de 7 tiān kè shàng de zuòyè kāishǐ běn jié kè. Topic: Tohu Patai (Question […]

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MATHEMATICS ANSWERS, JULY 2020: 2020年7月的数学答案

Question # 1:   Tom took 4 sweets, John took 3 sweets.  Mum paid $1.40 for the sweets and this price has a discount of 30% deducted.  How much is the marked-up price of 1 sweet?  问题 # 1: 汤姆拿了4个糖果,约翰拿了3个糖果。妈妈花了$1.40买了这7个糖果,这个价格已经扣除了30%的折扣。  问题 #1: 1个糖果的加价是多少? Answer # 1 - with all steps clearly stated.     答案 #1 - 明确说明所有步骤。 Let ‘ s ‘ is the price of one sweet after the 30% discount.  So, 7 ‘ s ‘ = $1.40;  ‘ s ‘ = $0.20 But there is a 30% discount.  So, ‘ s ‘ is = (100% - 30%) = […]

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Mathematics Exercises - July 2020 数学练习 - 2020年7月

Start by answering the following ten questions, showing all workings. It is always tempting to do such mathematical questions mentally and shout out the answers. This is usually NOT what a teacher requires. Teachers like to know the logical workings in the answers and therefore, kindly write out your steps in your answers and then compare what you have written with the sample answers to be given in a later article to be published next week. 首先回答以下十个问题,显示所有工作原理。人们总是很想在脑子里做这样的数学问题,然后大声喊出答案。这通常不是老师所需要的。老师喜欢知道答案中的逻辑原理,因此, 请在答案中写下您的步骤,然后将您所写的内容与将在下周发布的后续文章中给出的示例答案进行比较。 Question # 1: Tom, Jones, and Mum. 示例问题1:汤姆,琼斯, 和妈妈。 Tom: I took four sweets, Mum. Jones: And, I took three. Mum (to […]

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Guy de Maupassant 法国小说作家盖德莫帕桑

This is an English exercise for secondary school students. If you have a child or grandchild in secondary school, print out the ‘Exercises’ part of this article and hand this for him/her to do within a period of say two days. Then check out his/her answers with the ‘Sample Answers’ part of this article. Exercise # 1: Read the short story entitled “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. Print the ten-page story from this website: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Neck.shtml. The Necklace. The first three paragraphs are reproduced here: “She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as if by an error […]

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Algebra Practice for Your Child 适合您孩子的代数练习

The relationship between algebra in schools and real-life experience is never clear to our children. We, adults, know that algebra helps us to think logically for a solution to the many X-s and Y-s in our lives. Just as a simple example, if 3 apples and 4 oranges cost $13.00, and an apple costs $3.00, what is the cost of an orange? To solve this, we need to read the example in algebraic terms like 3a + 4o = 13 and a = 3. That being so, 3a = 9. Using the usual child’s conception that the equal sign is […]

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