General English standard of students Question 1: How bad is the situation? 1. HKEAA recently completed the first administration of the TSA of Primary 3 students to assess their performance against professionally defined competences in Chinese‚ English and Mathematics. Surprisingly‚ there are 25% of students who fail in English. 2. In the 2009 HKCEE and HKALE English examinations‚ there are some unacceptable mistakes such as some students spelled banana wrongly to ‘’banna’’ and ‘’bananna’’
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means economic growth and a way to raise the living standard of families. As economic growth improves the average citizen’s standard of living a smaller portion of the population tends to fall below the absolute poverty standard. Society can eliminate absolute poverty through a combination of economic growth and transform of many citizens with more than adequate income to the poor. Every residents in the Philippines would like to raise its living standard an exactly that of its community fact‚ every
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Professional Writing Standards Critical Thinking CRITERIA • • • • Audience Purpose Context Frame Strategic approach Logic and Reasoning • • • • Logical units of discourse Claim or assertion Idea unity and integrity Supporting evidence Structural Coherence • • • • Coherent “whole” Internal logic Section unity & integrity Transitions Language use Information Design • • • Format and channel Visual design Readability/accessibility Professionalism Error interference
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------------------------------------------------- Was the Cold War Inevitable? ------------------------------------------------- ARTS1271 ESSAY ------------------------------------------------- 16th September‚ 2011 ------------------------------------------------- The orthodox view of the Cold War elucidates its inevitability due to the great ideological differences that existed between the Soviet Union and United States. On the other hand‚ the revisionists argued that it happened due to
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Occupational standards are the first steps in gaining qualifications that identify the competence of an individuals capability to do there job in an efficient manner and produce the best work possible. There are specific targets/specific standards that must be met as part of there job role. Employees also must have an understanding of the job role they have undertaken as part of occupational standards. For employers to identify if and where training is required employees must demonstrate there capabilities
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We Can Improve Our Current Ecological Crisis By Living Green by: Marcus Wilson Our world continues to deteriorate as natural cataclysms‚ nuclear power plant issues and general apathy evokes havoc. This earth will soon be gone unless its citizens make an effort to do something about it. There is a climbing population‚ there is corruption‚ and there is big time pollution. The best thing for people today is to turn to green living. Many people do not actually understand what living green is
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not smoke looks like. Outline ATTENTION-GETTING OPENER Lung cancer‚ emphysema‚ heart disease‚ asthma attacks‚ cataracts‚ bronchitis‚ and death‚ these are all the common effects due to cigarette smoking. PREVIEW Today I will be informing you of the damage that is caused to the human body due to cigarette smoking‚ why smoking is addictive‚ and the laws about cigarette smoking. Health risks of cigarette smoking Why smoking is addictive Laws about cigarette smoking TRANSITION: Many people know that smoking
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Standard 3 Area of Knowledge 1 The health & Safety Laws that apply to my working environment are: Health & Safety at work Act 1974 COSHH 2002 RIDDOR (reporting of injuries‚ diseases and dangerous occurrences) If a hazardous substance such as bleach is not used appropriately and stored correctly it could become a risk to a YP if used inappropriately. This would come under COSHH Not reporting a serious injury a YP or member of staff sustains is breaking the law and regulations. An
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Living with Cerebral Palsy and The Effects on Childhood and Family Living with Cerebral Palsy: In the Childhood Years Brain Damage Cerebral palsy usually is caused by factors that interfere with normal development of the brain before birth. In some cases‚ genetic defects can be a contributor to the disruption of normal brain development; other cases are caused by injuries to the developing brain. According to Levete (2010)‚ “Approximately 70% of cerebral palsy
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Even with both the English and the Americans willing to compromise and make deals‚ it would have been very hard to prevent the War for independence. The American enlightenment‚ however‚ could have been stopped. A large majority of Americans wanted independence from England mainly because of the way they were being ruled. Of the Americans that wanted to break away were from many backgrounds‚ they came from all over the social ladder and from all over the world. If they didn’t all come together to
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