Additional Information
✔ Live demo: Add 10 to 20 marks to your kid’s oral score within 10 minutes
✔ Take home our ting, shuo, du, xie checklist to immediately pinpoint weaknesses your child needs to work on for the upcoming end of year exams or PSLE
✔ What to do when your child says, “I have nothing to write about”during Chinese composition
✔ Lessons conducted in dual language instead of pure Chinese to speed up learning and knowledge retention
✔ Weekly DailyExcel oral practice with instant feedback from a native-speaking teachers
✔ With just 2 hours a week, grasp all 4 graded components for Chinesethrough emphasis on 听 (listening), 说(speaking), 读 (reading), and 写(writing).
✔ Discover why your child only needs the MOE textbook to ace Chinese without incurring additional expenses on assessment books.
✔ Done-for-you school exam tracking so that you’re never burdened with revisions or be caught by surprise.
✔ Bonus for TGEE Parents: Now you no longer have to struggle every evening to help your child with their homework
Chat with us to understand how this workshop can help you and your child.
Why we are good at teaching Chinese!
"Through my years as a Chinese tutor, I have observed what works and what doesn’t when it comes to learning Chinese"
- Happy Teacher, TGEE
Chinese might feel hard, but it is actually really easy to score.
Reason #1 — Targeted learning is the key
Singapore schools use a Chinese syllabus. Few language subjects have that. Thus, it narrows down the areas that need focus. For example, there are only 50 passages that your child must know to score an AL1 in PSLE.
Reason #2 — The secret is to read out loud
Blind memorization is a sure way to kill a student’s interest. On the contrary, reading out loud is paramount to mastering a language.
A research at the University of Waterloo had 95 participants do each of these four activities: read silently, listen to someone else read out loud, read aloud themselves, and listen to a recording of themselves reading. The researchers discovered that reading out loud was by far the best way to retain memory!
However, just reading out loud doesn’t cut it either. Your child needs instant feedback to lock in the learning. After all, there is no point in the kid reading the same sentence ten times the wrong way, right?
At the DailyExcel Quickfix Workshop, we encourage maximum results by guiding them as they read out loud.
Reason #3 — It’s all about applying the right teaching method to the specific situation your child falls into
There are generally three types of students when it comes to learning Chinese. I have worked with all three types of students. I’ve even worked with one that went from Type 1 to Type 3!
SUCCESS STORIES - Cassandra went from failing Chinese in PRI
Cassandra in an English speaking Family
Cassandra grew up in an English-speaking family. She excelled in all her school subjects…except Chinese.
Chinese dented her aggregate score, and she started to worry that she wouldn’t make it into a good school.
Whenever Cassandra studied Chinese, her confidence plunged. During tuition, she would sob quietly, letting her tears drip onto her worksheets when she couldn’t understand the lesson.
Her situation was making her miserable, and her parents searched high and low for somebody who could help their daughter.
When I first met Cassandra, she was a stressed-out, sensitive kid. She was a classic Type 1 — struggling to even pass.
We struck up a relationship and not long after, I was able to pinpoint her weaknesses.
I crafted her a customised, exam-smart plan that could help her improve her score.
Soon after, I watched Cassandra regain her confidence. She went from needing her mother by her side with Google Translate when doing her homework, to being able to learn on her own.
She became a Type 2 — passing her exams, but still a distance from A.
In P4, she started scoring low As, graduating into a Type 3. Eventually, she scored A* in PSLE.
In Sec 2, she topped her cohort for Chinese and was invited to take higher Chinese in Sec 3. She gained a B3 for O-Level Higher Chinese, which allowed her to shave 2 points off her L1R5, paving the way for her to get admitted into Anglo-Chinese Junior College.
I share a warm friendship with Cassandra. I am proud of what she has achieved. My experience with Cassandra has taught me that each child has the potential to shine, if only we let them.
Student with Learning Disability
Jenny L. raised her score from a mere pass to AL3 within a year even though she has a learning disability
Jenny (Not her real name – for confidentiality purposes) suffers from ADHD. When she reads and writes, she has a tendency to skip words.
Coupled with her difficulty focusing, Jenny was faring terribly at Chinese in school. She was a Type 1 through and through.
Her English-educated parents were helpless. It got so bad that Jenny would cry whenever the Chinese tutor arrived at her house. Embarrassed, her mother did not know what to do.
Her struggle was tough on the whole family. One previous tutor worsened the situation by forcing Jenny to memorize phrases. The tutor assigned tons of homework, which only caused Jenny and her parents more stress.
When I started teaching Jenny, I used the TGEE Checklist to determine the areas she needed to work on. I instantly could tell that Jenny had the potential to do well in Chinese and told her so.
Encouraged, Jenny came back week after week. She put in the work and utilized the techniques I taught her. I could see her slowly warming up to the subject.
Within just three months, Jenny went from failing miserably at Chinese to passing the subject, becoming a Type 2.
Jenny is the perfect example of a child who only needed her confidence and the right techniques.