JEFF and FILM, MAttayom 1, Sports Day, Writing

GUY, F & BAS, SPORTS DAY

In the morning at King's College and today is Sports Day.

The students got up at 6 O'clock today. The students are happy. We saw some students there that didn't like today because today is very cold. At 7 O'clock the students of all houses made a parade. They were very beautiful. The parade walked around the course. The Director of King's College liked the parade. The Director gave a gift of money to the students of all the houses.

Racing started and the gun is PUNG!! The runners are very fast!!
Near the course there were cheer-leaders. There cheers were a lot of fun.
In the evening Sports Day finished. House 1 was the winner of the year 2008.

-Bas, F and Guy.

SPORTS DAY, POL, Mattayom 1

SPORTS DAY BY POL M1. IEP

14 of January is the day of sport’s day. 4 houses will go to the outside yard. Today will have many runners who will run around the ground. I am going to run 8 X 50 and 4 X 200. It’s very exciting.

When the time comes P. is the first runner and is starting to run. I am the third runner. I will run very fast but everyone is finished and we are 4th.

Next time is 4 x 200. I am starting number 2. My friend is running very slowly and we finished 4th.

House 3 is the best house for cheering because house 3 have a parade, loud noise, etc.

In the evening everybody comes into the yard because the coach will talk about who was first at Sports Day.

The First in Prathom 5 was House 4
The First of 12 year old Runners was House 1
First of 14 year old Runners was House.
The first of sixteen year old runners was House 1.
The first of 18 year old runners was House 1.
The first of all runners was House 1.
The first for cheering was house 3.
At night house 3 ate the food which was yummy and we slept happily.

Peem & Sunday, Salaya Pavilion Dinner Report

We went to the Salaya Pavilion hotel by bust at 4.00pm and arrived Salaya Pavilion hotel at 5.00pm. Then we walked to the hall. We walked to the lift and pressed sixth floor. When the lift opened, we walked out from the lift.
Before we went to the dinner room we were resting. The dinner room had many tables and chairs and had many plates. It was good. Each table had eight chairs. After we sat on the chairs at each table the instructer described how to eat a Western dinner, and then we began to eat dinner.

The first dish was salad. The next dish was mushroom soup. The next dish was pork steak and the next was apple studel. And at last we drunk a cup of coffee or a cup of tea.

Then we went to the bus and left for home at 7.00pm and arrived at school at 8.00pm.

Mattayom 3, Salaya Writing Project

MOS and BEER, Mattayom 3

The photograph above shows Mos and Beer working on their Salaya Pavilion writing project. The Salaya Pavilion is a training restaurant and all the Mattayom 3 Intensive English Students visited there recently to learn about Western table manners and to try some Western food.

The project that they are working on will form part of the display for the upcoming 'Open Day' at King's College.

Both Mos and Beer are in Teacher Udaya's class and they have strong abilities in English.

Today my teacher gave me....

For most of our Prathom 6 students writing is the most difficult skill to learn and the one that they dislike the most.

So, to create a bit of excitement and interest in a writing exercise we bought each student a piece of fruit or a vegetable and placed it on their desks. This got their attention! And, once they understood that they would get to eat what they had been given after they had written about it, they were keen to begin!

For some of the students it was the first time that they had seen some of the fruit (peaches and nectarines for example) so there was some vocabulary to be learnt. Also the students needed to learn other vocabulary such as seeds, shiny, dull, hairy and on the inside/outside. Also we tried to encourge the use of 'and' to improve their writing ability.

This class was a big success; most of the students produced good work and all tried to produce their best writing. It was a very, very noisy class though!!

The five stories immediately following this post show examples of the students work.


Teachers Ann and Philip

BIG, Prathom 6

Today my teacher gave me an apple.
An apple is a fruit.
It colour is yellow.
It is smooth.
It is round.
On the inside my apple is yellow.
On the outside my apple is yellow and soft.
It tastes sweet and soft.


Big is on the left eating the apple and Non 2 is on the right with the bell pepper and carrot.

KANUN, Prathom 6

Today my teacher gave me a carrot.
A Carrot is a vegetable.
On the outside it's orange.
It's long and narrow.
It's smooth and hard.

On the inside it's orange.
It's long and smooth.
It's hard.
It's not sour but it's sweet.

PALM, Prathom 6

Today my teacher gave me a tomato.
A tomato is a vegetable.
My tomato is red and shiny and soft and smooth.
Inside my tomato is red.
Have a lot of seeds and it very soft and it tastes delicious.

Milk, Prathom 6

The kiwifruit is round and hairy.
Inside the kiwifruit is green.
It has many seeds.
It's soft.
It's not shiny.
It's dull.


Kiwifruit!! YO YO!!



Milk is eating a dragonfruit in this photo.

Film, Prathom 6

Today my teacher gave me an orange.
An orange is a fruit and it is a dark orange color.
An orange is smooth on the outside.
On the inside it is light orange.
It has many seeds.
On the outide it is round.
On the inside it is soft.
It tastes sour.

TAO, Mattayom 3

The picture story above (click to enlarge) was originally made to be used as a speaking test. However, we have used it as a test of writing skills with the students asked to write what has happened in the story. Before beginning the students are given help, depending on their ability, to write the story. For example at lower levels the students may be pre-taught the appropriate vocabulary and tense form, and given questions to answer to guide their story-telling.

From Cambridge Young Learners English Tests, Movers 3, Second edition.
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Below is TAO's story. He uses the past simple tense with creative effect by using his friends names in the story.

Last week Hippo and Kongsak went to the forest. Before they went to the forest they bought something to take to the forest. In the morning they went to the forest by car. They walked around the forest and pitched up camp.

Next day they went fishing and they met two elephants. Two hours later they were very sad because they can't get any fish but, they were happy again because the two elephants walked to help them. The two elephants fishing and got fish for them. They said to the elephants: Thank you for the fish. At night they had dinner with fish and traveled in the forest two days. They came back home. They remember the two elephants for a long time.

TON, Mattayom 3

The picture story above (click to enlarge) was originally made to be used as a speaking test. However, we have used it as a test of writing skills with the students asked to write what has happened in the story. Before beginning the students are given help, depending on their ability, to write the story. For example at lower levels the students may be pre-taught the appropriate vocabulary and tense form, and given questions to answer to guide their story-telling.

From Cambridge Young Learners English Tests, Movers 3, Second edition.

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This is Ton's story.

One day in the afternoon, two people, father and son went to the park. They were fishing. The son saw that in the river had fishes. His father ate the sandwich. In the park had the trees and river, it was very cool, but they didn't get the fish. They were sad. The bucket was empty. After that, have an elephant. One elephant went to father and son and it blew the fish down in the bucket. They were happy.

GOT, Mattayom 3

The picture story below (click to enlarge) was originally made to be used as a speaking test. However, we have used it as a test of writing skills with the students asked to write what has happened in the story. Before beginning the students are given help, depending on their ability, to write the story. For example at lower levels the students may be pre-taught the appropriate vocabulary and tense form, and given questions to answer to guide their story-telling.

From Cambridge Young Learners English Tests, Movers 3, Second edition.

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Below, from Mattayom 3 is GOT's story. It shows a very good understanding of the past simple tense.

In the afternoon Jim and Jack went fishing in the river. In the river there were many fish. Jim sat on his chair and he ate a cake. Jack stood on the grass. They fished for 3 hours, after that they looked their hooks. The hooks didn't have a fish. The elephant sucked many fish in the river. It blew many fish in their bucket. Jim and Jack were happy!!

GAMES, Mattayom 1, Excellent English Writing

The picture story below (click to enlarge) was originally made to be used as a speaking test. However, we have used it as a test of writing skills with the students asked to write what has happened in the story. Before beginning the students are given help, depending on their ability, to write the story. For example at lower levels the students may be pre-taught the appropriate vocabulary and tense form, and given questions to answer to guide their story-telling.

From Cambridge Young Learners English Tests, Movers 3, Second edition.

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Games has won an Excellent English Writing Certificate for his story below. His story not only used good English, but it is also creative and made his teacher laugh!

Once upon a time there was 1 man and 1 boy. They looked like father and son. On the way they saw trees. The trees said, "Hello." Father and son were very suprised and they didn't like that, so they ran away from that place.

They were very hungry. After they ran for 3 hours they saw a big river. Then they were fishing, but their fishing rod was broken. After that there was 1 elephant that saw they were sad. Then it helped them to fish. They were very happy.

But son still hungry, so he killed the elephant and ate it! Then he was full. Happy ending.

Terk, Mattayom 3, Writing Test

The picture story below (click to enlarge) was originally made to be used as a speaking test. However, we have used it as a test of writing skills with the students asked to write what has happened in the story. Before beginning the students are given help, depending on their ability, to write the story. For example at lower levels the students may be pre-taught the appropriate vocabulary and tense form, and given questions to answer to guide their story-telling.


From Cambridge Young Learners English Tests, Movers 3, Second edition.

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The story below is by Terk and shows work that is almost completely his own- the teacher has helped with the correct usage of only a few words and verbs. One or two errors remain.

Last week a father and son went to the forest. The father's name was John and the son's name was Jack. During the time that they went to the forest the weather was so cool. They stopped near the river. John looked around the river. He saw many big trees and two elephants. Then he said, "O.K. Jack we are fishing here." Then Jack and John fished in the river but their fishing rod was broken. Then they couldn't fish any more.

John and Jack looked in their bucket. John said, "Oh, Jack, today there isn't any fish for eating. Now what will we do?" Then the elephant walked to John and Jack. It saw the fish in the river then sucked the fish and put it in the bucket for John and Jack.

Jack saw that and then said, "Thank you Mr. Elephant", and Jack spoke to John, "Today we have fish for eating, ha, ha, ha."