Anglo-Chinese School (Primary)

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Anglo-Chinese School (Primary)

English
P6 Parent-Teacher Meeting
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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)

• Examples of texts - announcements, news
  broadcast, dialogues, advertisements, recipes,
• 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 (a team of two
  teachers)

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Paper 1 Situational Writing

• Content
• Inclusion of essential information present in the
  stimulus/task description
• Language and Organisation
• Minimal language errors (i.e. spelling,
  punctuation, tenses,etc.)
• Well-linked ideas and facts such that information
  presented is very clear
• Good understanding and clear awareness of
  purpose, audience and context

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Paper 1 Continuous Writing

• Content
• Fully relevant ideas
• Ample ideas
• Sufficient development of ideas
• Language and Organisation
• Minimal language errors (i.e. spelling,
  punctuation, tenses,etc.)
• Wide and appropriate use of vocabulary
• Good sequencing, paragraphing and linking of
  ideas and facts

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Paper 2 Comprehension

• Being able to use reading strategies to make
  sense of a text
• Questioning Technique (5Ws, 1H)
• Accessing prior knowledge
• Using contextual clues
• Understanding the requirements of the questions
  that follow

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Paper 2 Comprehension

• Answering the questions by including only
  relevant information and ensuring the answers
  contain no language errors
• exclude irrelevant information
• answering in complete sentences
• checking to ensure there are no spelling,
  punctuation and tense errors in the answer

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Paper 2 Cloze Passages

• Being able to use reading strategies to make
  sense of a text
• Having a wide range of vocabulary to understand
  possible words that could fit in the blanks
• Understanding how words are used in different
  contexts and selecting the correct word.

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Synthesis Transformation

• Understand how to combine two sentences and/or
  transform a sentence from one form to another
  while ensuring that
• meaning is preserved
• the sentence is grammatically correct
• the sentence contains no structural errors

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Teaching Focus

• Reinforcement of language items learnt through
  revision re-teaching if necessary
• Bridging skill gaps
• Sufficient exposure to PSLE-type items

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Materials and Resources

• A good collection of worksheets prepared plus
  practice papers consisting of ACSP past year
  papers and papers from other schools
• Constant review and improvement of worksheets to
  ensure relevance
• PSLE Booklet for revision
• I Can Write vocabulary list
• Forms of Verbs list

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Support Programme

• Philosophy of providing for all through
  supplementary/remedial lessons
• Supplementary Lessons extension of classroom
  lessons. All pupils should attend these classes.

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Parents Support

• Remind your son 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

• Listening
• News broadcast/ snippets of a conversation/ radio
  jingle
• ask them a few questions in relation to what they
  heard
• Writing
• Focus feedback on one area at a time (e.g. idea
  development, vocabulary or minimizing errors)

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Parents Support

• Oral
• Reading
• check their diction/ voice projection
• prompt them to be expressive
• Picture discussion
• refer to pictures and discuss content
• ensure that your son speaks in grammatically
  sound sentences
• ensure that he uses good vocabulary to express
  himself

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Parents Support

• Oral
• Conversation
• ensure that your son can develop ideas to talk
  about based on a prompt
• ensure that your son speaks in grammatically
  sound sentences
• ensure he uses good vocabulary to express himself

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Parents Support

• Reading widely to ensure exposure to story ideas
  and vocabulary from different sources
• continue to read the newspaper, books
  (fiction/non-fiction - different genres),
  magazines and other appropriate materials to
  maintain exposure to different text types/ genres
  
• Revision
• revise practice papers
• Items taught in class

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Contact
Ms Woon Yuet Meng (LH English) Tel [phone] ext
249 Email woon_yuet_meng_at_moe.edu.sg Mdm
Suzanna Hashim (ST English) Tel [phone] ext
249 Email suzanna_hashim_at_moe.edu.sg