Horse Sense

What is Horse Sense?

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.

Horse’s power or Power of the Horse?

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.

Horse Around

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!

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

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?

High horse

• Arrogantly believing oneself is superior to others, often by putting down large groups of people.

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.

Straight from the horse’s mouth

• From the person concerned or responsible

• From an authoritative or dependable source

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

• Don't be ungrateful when you receive a gift.

A Strong Foundation

& Rich Language

for All

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.

Vocabulary, Idioms & Expressions (VIE)

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

List of Literary Devices

1. Simile 2. Metaphor 3. Personification 4. Hyperbole 5. Irony6. Analogy7. Alliteration8. Paradox

9. Oxymoron10.Puns11.Collocation12.Idioms13.Proverbs14.Antithesis15.Parallelism

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.

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.

Assessment of VIE• VIE Test

– Conducted in Week Five

– Multiple-choice questions

• Included in CA1 computation

–VIE test for Term 2