Final Exam Tips and Reminders

English

1. Go through you past worksheets, especially on the sections of grammar, vocabulary and synthesis.
2. Avoid silly mistakes by checking for your spelling, tenses and punctuations.
3. Check your work and keep on re-checking until the last minute of the exam.
4. For Situational Writing, make sure you have mentioned about the six points given in the question. Take no longer than 25min to finish this section.
5. For Continuous Writing, be careful of your tenses and make sure that you are writing the in the correct person (depends on whether you are supposed to be 'inside' or 'outside' the story). Take no longer than 45min to finish this section.

Mathematics

1. Go through your worksheets, test papers and exam practice papers.
2. Avoid silly mistakes of not writing your units or not checking your work.
3. Take no longer than 25min to do your MCQ, no longer than 35min to do your Section B. Allocate about 60min to do your problem sums and the remaining 15min to check your work.
4. Check your work and keep on re-checking until the last minute of the exam.

Science

1. Go through all your worksheets, test papers and textbooks.
2. Spend no longer than 45min for MCQ and leave about 40min for your Section B. Spend the last 20min to check your work.
3. Be careful with spelling mistakes as it will cost you half a mark each!
4. Always write your answer such that it is clear and the marker need not come back to ask you for any clarification. That is, make your answer 'foolproof' whereby anybody (without any science knowledge) who reads it knows what you are saying!

Have sufficient rest before the exam and GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY! This exam is very important and it decides where you will go in P6.

Holiday Homework (EL & SC)

5 Excellence!

Your holiday homework are as follow:

1. Science - 2006 S.A.2 Exam Paper (Sections A and B)
2. English - Worksheet "Keeping Pets"
3. English - Worksheet "Accidents"

Two more weeks to the exams!!!

Oral Exams

Details:

Date: 8th October (Mon)

Time: 2pm to 6pm (latest)

Place: Classroom (English); Hall (Mother Tongue)

Tips:

Reading Aloud (10 marks)

1. Greet the examiner - set him/her in a good mood first
2. Read loud and clear
3. Do not read too fast or too slow
4. Change your tone; add in your emotions while reading (so that you will not sound like a robot)
5. Remember to pause when you come across a comma or a full stop.
6. For words which you are not sure in pronouncing, just try your best to read that word, and read as per normal (no stopping, same speed) so that you will not draw too much attention to that wrong 'word'.

Picture Description (10 marks)

1. Firstly, describe the place shown in the picture (e.g. "This picture shows a school canteen.")
2. Start from one side (left or right side), describe what you see in the picture
3. Add your comments about what you have just described (e.g. "The boy looks grumpy. I think it is because he does not have enough money to buy his food")
4. Give your own suggestions or explanations to that situation you have described (e.g. "That boy should have checked his wallet for enough money before going to school.")

Conversation (10 marks)

1. Treat the examiner as your friend or relative - chat with him/her
2. Make sure you talk about the given exam topic and not about other topics
3. Speak up loud and clear
4. Talk more than the examiner
5. Thank the examiner

Remember:

Oral exam is the time for you to TALK! No talk, no marks! What sets you to be different from the rest (and therefore earning high marks) is to say different things from others.

Have a good rest, drink lots of water and GOOD LUCK!

Composition Writing

5 Excellence!

(Just repeating what we have been doing.)
Below are the pointers in your continuous writing:-


Introduction (1 paragraph) - introduce the story, give details of the environment / setting
(1) When?
(2) Who?
(3) Where?
(4) Do what?

Example: One sunny morning (when?), Puvind (who?) went to a park (where?) to fly a kite (do what?).


Body (more than 1 paragraph) - develop and explain the story in detail
(1) What happened?
(2) Next... ?


Conclusion (1 paragraph) - 'close' the story
(1) In the end... ?
(2) Moral of the story (is there anything that we can learn from it)?

English Spelling

5 Excellence!

Please note that we will have our weekly English Spelling Test on Mondays instead of Fridays. Please do study the Unit 10 Spelling List 1 for the test on Monday, 10th Sept.

Have a good break ahead! :)

Primary Grammar

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For the many of you who are weak in your grammar, I would like to recommend you to get this book. It covers a lot of details in your basic grammar and also offers many exercises to practise on. (This is what I used for my remedial class).

I had bought it last year. This year I think the colour of the cover is blue. It can be found in Popular Bookstore and costs about $8.

I would strongly encourage pupils to get this book as it is extremely useful for those of you who are very weak in your grammar (or if you are speaking too much 'Singlish').

Adjectives and Adverbs

An adjective is a word that describes a noun (the name of a thing or a place). For example, beautiful, handsome, sweet, funny, delicious.

An adverb is a word that describes a verb (an action or a doing word). For example, Kenneth ate his breakfast quickly (describing the action of eating).

Prefix

Prefixes are words or letters that are placed in front of or before another word. For example: submarine, unfriendly, rewrite. Those words in bold and underlined are prefixes.

Try the game below on Prefixes. Have fun!

Crack your brain!

Something from the Internet.

If you can figure out what these words have in common, you are a lot smarter than I am. And no, it isn't 6 letters in each word; you need a little more 'moxey' than that.

• Banana
• Dresser
• Grammar
• Potato
• Revive
• Uneven
• Assess

Are You Peaking Or Have You Already Given Up?

Give It Another Try....

You'll kick yourself when you discover the answer.

Go back and look at them again;

think hard.

OK...

Here You Go..

Hope You Didn't Cheat.

This Is Cool. Answer:

In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word. Did you figure it out? Even if you didn't don't worry just send it to more people and stump them then you'll feel better.

English and Science Remedial (Term 3)

The following ten pupils are to attend remedial lessons. The exact date for starting remedial classes will be confirmed at a later date and be announced in class.

English (Mondays, 2 to 3pm) and Science (Thursdays, 2 to 3 pm):

• YIHAN
• SYAZWINA
• JING YI
• LINGLING
• PUVIND
• HAZIZI
• FADZLI
• HAZIQ
• DESMOND
• JIA HAO

As the school only allows at most ten pupils to be in any one remedial class, hence only these ten are selected. For those of you not involved in it, please do continue to do your own revision at home.

Final English SA1 Tips

5 Excellence!

Here are the final tips which you all have been hearing me for the past 18 weeks.

Comprehension

• Before reading the passages, do a quick read through the questions. This will prepare you (in your mind) to look out for the answers when you start to read the passages.
• If the questions asks: "Why is ... ?" - Answer with "It is because ..."
• If the questions asks: "Why was ... ?" - Answer with "It was because ..."
• If the questions asks: "Why do ... ?" - Answer with "It is because ..."
• If the questions asks: "Why did ... ?" - Answer with "It was because ..."
• If the questions asks: "Which word ... ?" - Answer with "The word is..."
• If the questions asks: "Which phrase... ?" - Answer with "The phrase is..."
• If the questions asks: "Which sentence... ?" - Answer with "The sentence is..."
• Write your answers beginning with a capital letter.
• Check your answers - spelling, punctuation, grammar.

Cloze Passages

• Read through quickly before attempting to answer the questions. Get a feel of what the topic is about and in which tense (present or past?).
• Strike away those answers which you have chosen.

Synthesis

• For reported speeches - Change "this" to "that"
• For reported speeches - Change "now" to "then"
• For reported speeches - Change "tomorrow" to "the next day"
• For reported speeches - Change "today" to "that day"
• For reported speeches - Change "will" to "would"
• For reported speeches - Change "shall" to "should"
• For reported speeches - Change "can" to "could"
• For reported speeches involving a 'yes-no' question - use 'whether' or 'if'

Finally - always check your spelling, grammar and punctuations. Don't lose marks unnecessarily to carelessness!!

"Hu" Is The New Leader Of China?

Thanks to Ikhmah from Math Group 3 (and P5D), here's a video clip on the importance of speaking good english! Enjoy!

EL Journal (Wk 1)

If you can change (or correct) one bad habit of Singaporeans:

• What will it be?
• How does this bad habit affect you?
• Why do you want to change that?

Happy Holidays

5 Excellence!

While having fun, please don't forget to do the following holiday exercises:

• English Unit 3 Paper
• Science Worksheet 2
• Science Worksheet 4

There is no need to write the weekly journal for this holiday week. Please do take good care during this holiday! =)

OP Working Log

5 Excellence!

Please don't forget to complete your Oral Presentation (OP) Working Log (the 3-page white colour worksheet where you are to write about how you go about planning and doing the OP).

EACH GROUP needs to submit only ONE copy of the completed Working Log.

Oral Presentation Begins!

5 Excellence!

After the first round of oral presentation, below are the learning points for us all:

• Remember to look at your classmates (and not the teacher)


• Speak loudly and clearly (else your classmates will start to talk)


• 'Stay' with the topic (do not go on talking about things not relevant to the topic)


• Do not have too many words in your PowerPoint slides and do not read out straight from them


• Answer your friends' questions politely
  
  

Chunk-at-a-time!

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As promised, below is our 1st chunk-at-a-time! Although it is fun, please do take note of the composition writing skills involved. As you read through again, do take note of the following points:-

• A clear 'introduction' paragraph ('when, where, who?')
• 1 or more 'body' paragraphs ('what, how?')
• A 'conclusion' paragraph ('what happened in the end?')
• Grammatically correct sentences
• Appropriate punctuations

Enjoy your very own masterpiece! Although I find the moral of the story to be a little inappropriate, here goes...

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abcdefOne bright sunny day, Desmond was walking outside Xinghua Primary School. Suddenly, he saw something shining on the floor. He took a closer look at the object and found that it was a one dollar gold coin.

abcdefDesmond picked up the one dollar coin and kept it in his wallet. He decided to go to a nearby provision shop to buy a snack. When Desmond was choosing the snacks, he realised that the one dollar coin was missing. He was curious to find out where the one dollar coin went. Hence he ran out of the shop, only to find a girl picking up a one dollar coin.

abcdefDesmond said, “Hi!” with a blushed face. He was staring at the girl until his jaw dropped. The girl was disgusted by Desmond’s actions. She took out a pepper spray and sprayed it onto Desmond’s eyes. She then left the one dollar coin on the floor and ran as fast as she could.

abcdefPoor Desmond immediately ran to the nearest toilet to wash his eyes and cried because he had lost the girl of his dream. The moral of the story is, 'Love is better than money'.

On Oral Presentation

5 Excellence!

Next week will be your Oral Presentation! I hope by next Monday, you are ready to come up front to 'perform' to the class. Please take this seriously as this will be your 'CA 1' results. The order will be by the topics as follow:-

1. My Ambition
2. My First Time ..
3. My Hobby
4. Planning a Party
5. Places of Interest

The presentations will be done during our English lessons for the whole of next week. I will be getting a microphone and radio for you all to use in class. If there are more than one group presenting on any topic, I will decide which group to go first. So be ready!

Journal

5 Excellence!

Please be reminded that your journal topic for this week is:

"How you feel about what had happened during Music lesson".

Oral Presentation Topics

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The 5 topics for the oral presentation are as follow:

1. My Ambition
2. My First Time ..
3. My Hobby

4. Planning a Party

5. Places of Interest

Please give me your group members' names (not more than 4 per group) and the topic. Each member will have to speak for at least 3 minutes.

We are at week 6 now and the above presentation shall take place on week 9, so do START YOUR PREPARATION NOW!