Designed for Hong Kong primary children.Designed for Hong Kong primary children.

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Common Common ErrorsErrors

Common Common English English

mistakes in mistakes in Hong KongHong Kong

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How do I spell ___?

‘How to spell ___?’

BBQ - Barbeque

‘Bee Bee Queue’

Turn on the light / air-con

‘Open the light / air-con’

Taxi

‘Tax’

Lots of money

‘many money’

On foot

‘by foot’

wanted / needed/ decided / posted / tasted / waited / invited / planted / shouted

Don’t forget the ‘id’ sound!

Past tense!

MTR

‘MTR-o’

Are you bored? / I am bored

‘Are you boring? / I am boring’

Ocean Park is fun!

‘Ocean Park is funny’Funny = laughing

No need for:ar, lah, lu, ma and wor …at the end of words

No-lah!

The sounds of theseletters are different!

qu

c

There is / There are

‘There have’

‘There have one

apple’

He has a positive outlook 展望

‘’His outlook is very neat’\

cam-ra, choc-late, veg-ta-ble,

cam-e-ra, choc-o-late,veg-e-ta-ble.

Syllables

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• The

• A / An

• Plural

• Have / Has

• Bring / Take

• Use of the word ‘plenty’

• Use of the words ‘besides’, ‘plenty’ and ‘later’

• Different sounds of the vowels

More revision topics

•advertisement, almost, both, caterpillar, cauliflower, chapel, comb, courage, crier, damage, deny, dragon, encourage, engine, exquisite, fabulous, family, famished, foreign, four, garage, ghastly, ghost, glacier, gnarled, gnash, gnaw, gnome, gross, guard, habit, hazard, heaven, hexagonal, imagine, journey, July, kiosk, kiwi, machine, magic, manage, miaow, miracle, miserable, Monday, mongrel, monkey, month, most, mother, nothing, obey, once, only, opposite, orange, palace, panic, pigeon, pity, plant, pliers, post, powder, prison, programme, properly, pyjamas, quiet, radish, raft, rather, reply, rhinoceros, rigid, risen, salami, science, sinister, smother, soldier, somersault, son, souvenir, spinach, sponge, swollen, tambourine, task, tie, tongue, tourist, tournament, vast, video, vinegar, vomit, wheelie, wonder.

Pronunciation