4. Horse Sense
• Someone who has horse sense
is a practical thinker with the
ability to make sensible decisions.
• E.g. Andrew has good horse sense.
He will do the right thing.
6. Horsepower
1. The power that a horse exerts in
pulling
2. Horsepower (hp) is the unit of
measurement of power, the rate at
which work is done
3. A unit that is used to measure the
power of engines and motors.
4. Effective strength: political
horsepower; computer horsepower.
8. Horse around
• To play around roughly with
someone or something, possibly
abusing someone or something.
• To be active in a silly way
• E.g. Stop horsing around and pay
attention to your father!
9.
10. Hold your horses
• Tell someone to stop and
consider carefully their decision or
opinion about something,
especially when they are doing it
too fast and need to be more
patient
11.
12. Putting the cart before
the horse
• To do things in the wrong order
• Reverse the accepted or logical
order of things.
• Refusing to do your homework but
waiting for the teacher to go through
the answers is rather putting the cart
before the horse, isn't it?
13.
14. High horse
• Arrogantly believing
oneself is superior to
others, often by putting
down large groups of
people.
15. Get off your high horse
• To stop acting as if you are better
or more intelligent than other
people
• He never got off his high horse long
enough to consider how insulting his
words were to his colleagues.
16.
17. Straight from the
horse’s mouth
• From the person concerned or
responsible
• From an authoritative or
dependable source
21. Approach
• Systematic and explicit instruction to
build a strong foundation in
language skills, grammar and
vocabulary; and
• Contextualised and holistic approach to
learning that will provide a rich
language environment for
developing language skills, grammar
and vocabulary.
26. Benefits of VIE
• Improve writing and reading skills
– Choose words with greater
precision
– Enhance understanding
and ability to think
• Strengthen communication skills
– Speak confidently with the right
choice of words
– Express yourself appropriately
27. List of Literary Devices
1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification
4. Hyperbole
5. Irony
6. Analogy
7. Alliteration
8. Paradox
9. Oxymoron
10.Puns
11.Collocation
12.Idioms
13.Proverbs
14.Antithesis
15.Parallelism
28. Expectations of students
• Get ready the student handbook and a
pen before the start of morning
assembly
• Turn the page to the correct date
• Write the VIEs in the student
handbook.
• One student will be selected to present
the VIEs for the day.
29. Expectations of students
• After 10 days of VIEs for a specific
literary device, a copy of the VIEs will
be given to each class to be put up on
the class notice board.
• The VIEs will be available on Higher
Ground.
30. Assessment of VIE
• VIE Test
– Conducted in Week Five
– Multiple-choice questions
• Included in CA1 computation
–VIE test for Term 2
