This is one topic i have been dying to share about :P. The "this" i am talking about is chinese paper 1 ( in secondary school ). In secondary one, i stepped into my classroom only to find out we were going to be doing letters, such as private and business.
Well i just really do not like the fact we have to learn about private letters since it does not have any real life application. In our age, when we talk to each other, it's either calling, SMS or MSN. Letters? That's so out-dated. Furthermore, the topics we write about are like, persuading someone to not quit school, to get someone out their addiction. Let's face it, we don't talk about things like that between friends. That's why now counsellors exist, to guide and help people who are in need of mental support and guidance that their parents cannot give. I mean, probably we ourselves have problems of our own, like a lazy attitude etc. Are we really in the position to help others out when we cannot even help ourselves?
As for business letters, people mostly use e-mails and the format is provided for you. Letters would take so long to travel to one another, and with the current tools we have, who would even be in the right mind to use letters to communicate? E-mailing is definitely the way to go. We are told to memorise formats etc etc. However, if it is provided, why memorise? ( waste of time, is it not? )
I mean if they say we need to intergrate ourselves with chinese , i would not mind learning about chinese history etc, at least it's interesting. So i feel that MOE should change their way of teaching to more effective method.
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