The document provides suggestions for students to spend their school holidays improving their English language skills. It recommends playing word games with siblings, doing word puzzles, and taking an English tuition class. It also suggests keeping a vocabulary notebook, reading sample essays and writing essays on their own. Students are encouraged to read novels, magazines and visit book fairs during the holidays.

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GAMES
•Besides playing games on
the PC, spend time with
your siblings playing
scrabble to improve your
vocabulary, charade (you
miming the word or phrase
and others guess what the
word/phrase is).
•Pick up a Word Puzzle book
(less than RM10.00) or a
crossword puzzle and
attempt to look for the
answers.
TUITION
•Enrol in an English Language
tuition class (with friends)
during the holidays (the last
option recommended) to
improve your writing and
overall English Language
performance.
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS ACTIVITIES
The end of year holidays is around the corner. Here are some suggestions that you could suggest to your
students on how they can fill their holidays in a meaningful way i.e. improving their English Language. These
suggestions are by no means exhaustive, you may have other ideas to add on to the list.
WRITING
•Read sample essays (from
revision books/ websites) –
take note of
phrases/idioms/vocabulary
that you are not familiar. Jot
them down. Use them in your
sentences.
•Write out essay that you have
read on your own.
•Create your own vocabulary
notebook .
•Make sure you read different
types of essays – narrative,
descriptive, factual, expository.
•Write what you have done for
the day in a diary.
READING FOR LEISURE
•Teen novels such as The Harry
Potter series, Chicken for the
Soul series, Diary of a Wimpy
Kid series, Percy Jackson series,
The Maze Runner series, The
Hunger Games series, Heroes
of Olympus series are available
at either Popular Book Stores
or MPH.
•Read magazines such as
Seventeen (girls would love
this!), Mad (Humour mag.) or
any football mags for boys.
BOOK FAIRS
•A family excursion to Book
Fairs/Sales – watch out for
book sales during the school
holidays by Popular Book
stores, MPH and Big Bad Wolf
(9-19 Dec 2016, at MIECC The
Mines) across the country.
More discounts are given if
you become a member of
these bookstores.