ACING THE ACER
A case study in Structuring a programme Billy – a ten year old – was preparing for a scholarship exam and enlisted PFL to help him. Billy’s family has lived in Hong Kong for about five years now after emigrating from…
Category Writing
MASTERING MACBETH
Preparing for iGCSE One of the things iGCSE students struggle most with is adapting their answers to the mark scheme examiners rigorously enforce. Their essays are expected to make effective use of quotation to demonstrate understanding, analyse literary devices and…
FIGURING OUT FIGURES OF SPEECH
Literature is a Labyrinth If you’re an IB or IGCSE student caught in a muddle of metaphors, motifs and metonyms take comfort! Much like any maze, literature can be solved by careful attention to detail, some creative thinking and a…
SENTENCE FLUENCY
Writing is Music. Nursery rhymes adorn children’s books. Simple structures, pleasant cadence, memorable words and phrases. Baroque constructions litter academic works. Repetition, variations, ideas that run pages and pages. There are quotable ear-worms, pop romances, classics of astounding depth and…