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and appropriate phrases of their own invertion. If this These are entirely

year wanking it is probably due to the lack of dramatic power and interest in the delivery of the anecdote .

Colloquial. It is a rule laist

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down by the Council of Education, (Blue Book) that all oral examinations, school - masters shall be prescirt.

prescirt. The Examiners wrote that they desired to be unattended during all oral examination and dictation. Not only is the idea of sething two Chinese boys

haw together in English abourd test, but no attempt at con= nected conversation was made by the Examiners; spasmodic questions being hurled at the boys heads. Boy were sent out into the verandah to report what they could see / an expanse of roofs) and dismissed with a smile which

to converse

foudly led them to imagine that they had passed creditably. As attempt

whatever

whatever was made to test the scope of their intelligence; in fact not a rough

hive was taken.

7.

398 Dictator. I am at a low to

understand the meaning of the follows:

ing sentence :-

"care was taken that the

unfamiliar voices of the Examiniets should not in

any way make the passage unduly difficult." How? all the dictation was given throughout in voices with which the boy acquainted. This is considered too se= vere a kest for Eriglish boys, the Blue Book on Education recommends that masters should be invited to give dic= thion to their own classes. The passages in the Lower and Preparatory Schools were all double, some treble, the

usually given. Boy

& had a piece,

the

in class length as in Class I. Errows in punchration in some by these long pieces would alone suffice to fail a boy, at the rate of two being.

equal

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