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Petition to abolish TSA

 

全港性系統評估（TSA）著意測試小學至初中生中、英、數三科的基本能力，卻引來學校過分操練學生的指責，甚至有公開聯署要求取消，如何是好？

 

More than 40,000 parents and teachers placed a full-page advertisement in a Chinese-language newspaper, urging education minister Eddie Ng to “show the courage” to cancel a city-wide exam for Primary Three pupils.

The advertisement said the (The Territory-wide System Assessment) TSA exams had finished their “historical mission” and should be scrapped.                                            [SCMP]

 

scrap 取消; 廢除

（verb 動詞）

 

例子：The Education Bureau should scrap the exam.

 

scrap

（noun 名詞）

 

1. 碎片; 片段; 點滴

例子：a scrap of paper  一小片紙

例子：scraps of information  零星信息

 

2. 少量

例子：not even a scrap   絲毫沒有

例子：He never does a scrap of work!   他一點兒活兒都不幹！

例子：Don’t waste your time. It won’t make a scrap of difference!

 

3. 食物殘渣；廚餘 = leftover (thrown away or given to animals)

例子：The scraps from the dinner table can be used to feed the pigs.

 

教育局會根據TSA成績，跟進各校學生的進度和學術水平。

The tests were launched in 2004 to assess abilities in Chinese, English and maths to help the bureau keep track of pupils’ progress and schools’ academic standards.

 

keep track of 一直留意 / 跟進

例子：The teachers use tests to keep track of the students’ progress.

 

lose track of 錯過

例子：I have lost track of what you are saying. Can you repeat?

 

on track / on the right/ wrong track 方向正確 / 錯誤

例子：Keep going! You are on the right track.

 

 

40,000 名家長、老師和社工在報章刊登聲明，指不少學生因TSA操練吃盡苦頭：

 

“Junior primary pupils are tormented. We urge the Education Bureau to show an educator’s courage to free pupils from an ‘unnecessary’ exam system ... to give them back a happy childhood.”

 

torment 折磨

（noun 名詞）

 

例子：to be in torment   經受折磨

例子：to suffer torments

 

torment 煩擾; 逗弄

（verb 動詞）

 

例子：My brother usually torments me by singing to me.

 

 

courage 勇氣

 

  • to pluck up the courage to do sth .   鼓起勇氣做某事
  • it takes courage to . . .   需要勇氣去
  • have the courage of one's convictions 堅定信念

 

例子：If you don't have the courage of your convictions, you'll never reach your goals.

 

Kevin’s classroom

 

後綴詞：-hood

 

1. A condition or state of being the thing or being in the role denoted by the word it is suffixed to, usually a noun.

 

childhood 童年/ adulthood 成人階段

例子：It is difficult to maintain friendship into adulthood.

 

2. A group sharing a specified condition or state

 

brotherhood 手足情誼

motherhood / fatherhood / parenthood （成為）父母

例子：She is ready for the responsibilities of parenthood.

 

neighbourhood 鄰近範圍／社區

例子：It is a good neighbourhood to retire.

► in the neighbourhood of = near

 

但要注意：Robin Hood（羅賓漢）除外！

   
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