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Title: AngloChinese School Primary


1
Anglo-Chinese School (Primary)

English
P6 Dialogue Session
2
PSLE Results

3
PSLE Format
4
Paper 1 (Writing)
  • Situational Writing
  • Writing a report, email, formal or informal
    letters, notes, notices etc
  • Continuous Writing
  • Choice of Picture or Situation

5
Paper 2 (Language Use Comprehension)
  • Graphic Stimulus (5marks)
  • Grammar (7 marks)
  • Punctuation (3 marks)
  • Vocabulary (5 marks)
  • Vocabulary Cloze (5 marks)
  • Comprehension MCQ (5 marks)
  • Editing (10 marks)
  • Grammar Cloze (10 marks)
  • Cloze (15 marks)
  • Synthesis Transformation (10 marks)
  • Comprehension Open-ended questions (20 marks)

6
Paper 3 (Listening)
  • 6 types of text types to be familiar with
    instruction, exposition, explanation, narrative,
    recount, information
  • Examples of texts - announcements, news
    broadcast, dialogues, advertisements, recipes,
  • 6 to 7 texts will be read twice
  • 20 Multiple-choice questions
  • Some questions may involve some form of visual
    matching

7
Paper 4 (Oral)
  • Reading Aloud
  • Picture Discussion
  • Conversation
  • -Topic given will be related to the picture
  • - Candidates are to engage in a meaningful
    conversation with the examiners (usually a panel
    of two teachers)

8
Composition
  • Organisation Coherence
  • Sequencing of ideas and development of plot
  • Pitfalls contradiction, far-fetched ideas, gaps
  • Grammar use of correct tenses
  • Punctuation - direct speech, proper
    nouns,
  • possessive
  • Use a variety of sentence types,
    vocabulary
  • expressions

9
Skills Tested (Comprehension)
  • Questioning Technique (5Ws, 1H)
  • Accessing prior knowledge
  • Using contextual clues to make sense of text
  • Inference Prediction
  • Looking out for cause and effect relationships

10
Comprehension
  • Answer in complete sentences!
  • - Because he woke up late (x)
  • - By bus (x)
  • Grammar
  • - Depends on text (story or factual) and
    questions

11
Comprehension
  • Why was John late for school ?
  • He woke up late.
  • John was late for school because he woke up late.
    (no need to repeat the stem)

12
Comprehension
  • Give two things/reasons that suggest John was
    rude to the teacher.
  • He spoke loudly and pointed his finger at her.
  • The two reasons are that he spoke loudly and
    pointed his finger at her.
  • (1) John spoke loudly and
  • (2) John pointed his finger at the teacher.
    (x)

13
Cloze
  • Read the whole text first without any attempt to
    fill in the blanks!
  • Look out for contextual clues and surface
    structure clues.
  • Answers must be grammatically and contextually
    correct.

14
Synthesis Transformation
  • Combine sentences with connectors
  • John likes coffee. Mary likes coffee.
  • Both John and Mary likes / liked tea. (X)
  • John brushed his teeth. Then he washed his face.
  • After he brushed his teeth, he washed his face.
    (X)
  • Passive Voice
  • The teachers praised John.
  • John was praised by the teachers.

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Synthesis Transformation
  • Reported Speech others
  • John is the monitor, the teacher told the
    class.
  • The teacher announced that John was the monitor.
  • John was the monitor last year, he told her.
  • He told her that John had been the monitor the
    year before/the previous year.

3. Bob won the match. He was surprised. Much to
his surprise, Bob won the match.
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Teaching Focus
  • Reinforcement of language items learnt through
    revision
  • Current textbook exercises not aligned to
    assessment mode
  • Sufficient exposure to PSLE-type items
  • Importance of PSLE booklet for revision

17
Teaching Focus
  • A good collection of worksheets prepared plus
    practice papers from premium schools
  • Constant review and improvement of worksheets to
    ensure relevance

18
Support Programme
  • Philosophy of providing for all
  • Modular approach
  • teachers concentrate on preparing materials
    suitable for the group
  • able to cater for mixed abilities
  • rotation system allows for additional revision of
    different components more frequently

19
Parents Support
  • Remind sons to
  • be attentive in class
  • complete practice papers with due diligence
  • Help them balance time spent completing tuition
    homework and schoolwork

20
Parents Support
  • Tips for parents about reinforcing skills to be
    revised for all 4 language components
  • Oral
  • topics on an impromptu basis to converse
  • discuss 5Ws and 1H about the topic
  • check their diction/ voice projection
  • prompt them to be expressive
  • refer to pictures and discuss content
  • ensure that your son speaks in grammatically
    sound sentences

21
Parents Support
  • Listening
  • News broadcast/ snippets of a conversation/ radio
    jingle
  • ask them a few questions in relation to what they
    heard
  • Writing
  • exercise careful thought/ choice of words
  • elaborate on ideas
  • be observant about daily occurrences

22
Parents Support
  • Writing
  • continue to read news articles and other
    appropriate materials to maintain exposure to
    different text types/ genres
  • Language usage
  • revise practice papers
  • revise items they have been exposed to

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Contact
Mdm Chui Yuen Phun English/HOD Tel 62501633
extn 212 Email chui_yuen_phun_at_moe.edu.sg Mr
Sudhesh Vasu Dash English/Level Head Tel
62501633 extn 227 Email sudhesh_vasudash_at_moe.edu.
sg Ms Chan Wen Tin English/Level Head Tel
62501633 extn 249 Email chan_wen_tin_at_moe.edu.sg
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