How to agree/disagree in an AQ

Here are the slides that I showed in class for the AJC AQ. Some suggestions on how to agree/disagree with the writers

AJC AQ

Answers to vocab worksheet

Here are the answers for the vocab practice that I gave as homework last Friday ("Testing, Testing" ST Home Learning Centre, 25/10/2004). I trust you are responsible enough to do it and check the answers yourself. It has some very nice words that you can note for vocab or use in essays.

1. behest 2. niche 3. insurgence 4. bombast 5. cadence 6. licence 7. angst 8.exegesis 9. truculent 10. caricature

11. T 12. F 13. T 14. T 15. F 16. T 17. F 18. T 19. T 20. F

21. epidemiologist 22. charlatan 23. polymath 24. vicegerent 25. purveyor 26.iconoclast 27. actuarist 28. ideologue 29. wastrel 30. bohemian

31. e 32. h 33. i 34. a 35. d 36. f 37. j 38. b 39. c 40. g 41. h 42. e 43. j44. i 45. b 46. f 47. a 48. g 49. d 50. c 51. g 52. j 53. c 54. i 55. d 56. b57. a 58. h 59. e 60. f

61. inexorably 62. inevitably 63. lavishly 64. avidly 65. disconcertedly 66.ostensibly 67. indefinitely 68. enticingly 69. ruefully 70. egregiously 71.moksha 72. intifada 73. Nasa 74. Marxism 75. Republican 76. Golden Rule 77.Geneva Conventions 78. Marshall Plan 79. Bill of Rights 80. lobby group

81. C 82. A 83. B 84. C 85. C

86. Francis Fukuyama 87. Margaret Mead 88. Saddam Hussein 89. Yuri Gagarin 90.Dr Mahathir Mohamad 91. Winston Churchill 92. Noam Chomsky 93. John Kerry 94.Chiang Kai-shek 95. Anwar Ibrahim 96. Aldous Huxley 97. Osama bin Laden 98.H.G. Wells 99. Richard Nixon 100. Donald Rumsfeld

Answers for holiday homework

Here are the answers for the RJC and MI promo papers. Sorry I didn't have the time to mark but I trust that all of you are intelligent enough to check the answers on your own. You can ask me if you have any problems with the questions, esp the AQ

RJC
MI

Environment Readings

Many of you say that your pet topic is 'Environment' so here are some readings from the Straits Times and other newspapers. Some of the articles are relevant to the remedial essay question on whether rich countries should do more for the environment.
I'm trying to compile more readings for other topics. You can choose to print out the topics and articles that you are more interested in.

Environment Readings

Corrine May's Song...

Someone asked me for this song so here it is...

Journey

Remedial Essays

This is the list of questions for those of you who are having remedial with me (or those of you who have been told to do 1 essay for me every week). You are supposed to prepare 1 question each time you see me. Pls do the questions in the order given.
Pls try to research for additional points and examples on your own when doing these essays. I'll try to put up relevant readings for the questions if I'm free.
If you are not seeing me for remedials you can still practise writing these essays and give them to me to mark or read the outlines that I'll put up later to check whether you are on the right track

Remedial Essays

What I owe you so far....

Here are some of the answers that I promised to post here. Pls download them and use them as guidelines for your AQs and essays

Block Test AQ

Block Test Essay Outlines (only 3 so far...more coming soon)

A-level 04 suggested AQ answer