AngloChinese School Primary

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Anglo-Chinese School (Primary)

English
P6 Dialogue Session
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PSLE Results

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PSLE Format
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Paper 1 (Writing)

• Situational Writing
• Writing a report, email, formal or informal
  letters, notes, notices etc
• Continuous Writing
• Choice of Picture or Situation

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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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Comprehension

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

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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)

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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)

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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.

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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

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Teaching Focus

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 [phone]
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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