For a number of my students every year, one of the first things I have to do is to make sure they are sleeping properly. The signs are easy to recognise: when they are trying to solve a particular problem (let’s say, figuring out how to respond to a question), their eyes sometimes glaze over. […]
An educator’s perspective on “fake news”
I intend to send this in to the Select Committee that has been formed to tackle fake news in a few days. Comments and suggestions are welcome, but I also encourage my readers to send in their views. I am a private tutor who teaches General Paper (GP), and new students sometimes say: “I thought […]
It is often said that people are too concerned with getting things and spending money. What is your opinion? (English O-level 2017, Syllabus 1128)
In cities near Singapore, like Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, one is bound to meet the Singaporean “national bird”. This creature utters one incessant cry: “So cheap! So cheap!” So many Singaporean tourists get labelled as examples of our “national bird” because we seem to be obsessed with buying things that we perceive as cheap, which […]
Protected: Assess the view that most natural disasters are the result of human activity.
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Video games and the factory worker ethic
On Tuesday I had the good fortune of meeting an airline pilot by chance, who told me something that I had suspected but never confirmed: you can learn some of the skills involved in flying a plane with certain flight simulator games (he used Microsoft’s “Flight Simulator X” himself). These games are challenging and fun, and according to […]
Protected: Too many fail at basic reading comprehension (Part Two)
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Protected: Too many fail at basic reading comprehension (Part One)
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My Twitter is back up!
Sometimes students look at the articles I’ve saved on my own reading list app (I use pocket), and they wish that they had a nicely curated series of articles (like mine) to read. So I’ve revived my Twitter account! I’ll be posting tweets with links to articles that I think people should read. If you’re […]
Note for new people trying to contact me: don’t use SMS
I’ve been having intermittent trouble receiving SMSes, so if you need to contact me, please use WhatsApp, email, or call me.
The musical I co-wrote will be performed this weekend, 1-3 April 2016!
This is just a shout-out to people who would like to see the other side of my work. I wrote the lyrics to My Love is Blind, a musical about a man who goes blind in his twenties, and had my sticky fingers involved in the music and bits of the script as well. See […]