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Category Archives: Advent Calendar
Advent Activity Calendar: Day 12 – Santa’s Proof Reading Challenge
Instructions: Santa has a lot of letters to read at this time of year! Here’s one with twelve spelling mistakes and eighteen incidents of missed or mistaken punctuation. Can you a) identify and b) correct each one? You can print off … Continue reading
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Tagged comprehension, proof reading, punctuation, spelling
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Advent Activity Calendar: Day 11 – Merry Christmas in 15 Languages
Your Better Tuition Advent challenge today is to identify the Merry Christmases from around the world – or, to be more specific – to identify which languages are used. You can choose from French, Finnish, Icelandic, Tagalog, Swedish, Hungarian, Tahitian, … Continue reading
Advent Activity Calendar – Day Ten: Verbal Reasoning Cloze
Welcome to Day Ten of our Advent Activity Calendar. Today we have a Verbal Reasoning Cloze activity for you. Choose the best word to fill in the gaps. Cloze activities enhance and assess vocabulary and comprehension. They also feature in … Continue reading
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Tagged cloze, cloze procedure, verbal reasoning, winter
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Advent Activity Calendar – Day 8 – Properties of Shape
Welcome to Day 8 of our Advent Activity Calendar. Let’s take a look at the presents under the Christmas tree and answer some questions. 1. What shape are all three gifts? 2. How many vertices does each gift have? 3.The … Continue reading
Advent Activity Calendar Day 5: Santa’s Verbal Reasoning Challenge
Santa loves our Better Tuition advent calendar so much he has created a fun Verbal Reasoning challenge for all those year five students who are busily preparing for Trafford’s Entrance Exams and for anyone who enjoys a good logic puzzle. Each Christmas Eve, Santa is busy ironing his robes … Continue reading
Refer a Friend and Receive a FREE Lesson
It’s the season of giving, so we are offering our current customers a FREE lesson when they refer a friend to us for a free assessment or free trial lesson. If your friend books and pays for a lesson following … Continue reading
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Tagged advent calendar, discount, refer a friend, special offer
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Happy Christmas from the Better Tuition Centre
Merry Christmas to all our customers and readers of this blog. Our final post of this year is a joke: Q – What’s another name for Santa’s elves? A – Subordinate clauses. If your child needs help with subordinate clauses, … Continue reading
December 24th: Merry Christmas from Better Tuition
Merry Christmas from us all at Better Tuition. We end our 2013 calendar with a joke: What do Santa’s elves learn in school? The elfabet! See you all in 2014! Tweet
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December 23rd: time for maths
Welcome to Day 23 of Better Tuition’s Winter Advent Activity Calendar. Today we have a set of Christmas maths problems for you. They’re quite tricky: perhaps the whole family could compete to complete them correctly! Return to our advent calendar. Today is Monday, 23rd December … Continue reading
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Tagged advent calendar, maths problems, online advent calendar
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December 22nd: More Maths
Welcome to Day 22 of Better Tuition’s Winter Advent Activity Calendar. Today we have a Christmas maths problem for you. Return to our advent calendar. Santa visits eight houses in twenty minutes. In each he eats the following amounts of mince pie: 2, 4, 1, … Continue reading
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