How to score Higher in PSLE Chinese and more in 2020

The Key to high score in PSLE is very simple, high score in every subject! The T-score is average weighted so if one subject is 10 marks less, your t-score will go down by as much as 7-8 points. (the above is an estimation, all results are hypothetical.)

Step 1: Know your current situation.

filling in the follow form

What school and/or (cut off point) t-score do you want? (Give me a number!) ____________/_________________


T-Score I desire: __________(a)


reference points

1. <=120 : Normal Technical course -----> ITE-----> NITEC cert
2. 120-180 : Normal (academy) ---->ITE/Poly ----> NITEC cert/Diploma/advanced Dipolma
3. 180-240 : Express ------> JC/Poly -----> University
4. 240-   : IP/Express ------> JC/Poly -----> University
5. >260: ivy league colleges ---> NUS/NTU

Step 2 Know your score

Subject tscore needed is tscore for school*1/3.

(This is a rough guess of actual t-score which will go through complex computation.)

English/Chinese/Math/Sci average score:  __________[(b)=(a)/3]

Eg, if you want 240 then each subject need 240/3=80 points.


Step 3 Know your results
List down your P5 SA2 results.
Eg, EL:80, CL:70, Math:70, Science:50

(all results according to SA2 or overall results, based on 100%)
English : __________
MT       : __________
Math     : __________
Science : __________
*Note, all results are based on 100%.

Step 4 Know your journey
Compare P5 SA2 to Subject t-score needed to for desired T-score.
                  P5 SA2(c)        Desired Tscore(b)        Gap (c)-(b)[see below]
English : __________         __________            __________
MT       : __________          __________            __________
Math     : __________          __________            __________
Science : __________          __________            __________

Step 5 Plan your journey
Determine the gap between desired results and current Prelim marks.

Then plan a timetable to study each subject equally for 1 hour everyday. That will take 4 hours a day to study.

Step 6 Plan a grand plan 
Plan a 6 months study program for each subject with study+revision etc

take a test every end of month to test understanding
(If you did not have a test, just go https://www.testpapersfree.com/2019/ and take all the 4 tests in each subject in strict time limit and convert that score to 100%)

Eg

Month	El	CL	Math	Science	tscore
May
June
Jul
August
September

Step 7
Use Prelim results to check progress for your PSLE results.

Good luck in your journey.

How one student followed my 3 milestone plan to pass his PSLE Chinese in 1 years.

Is Chinese really important in PSLE 2020?
Yes. we all know that PSLE 2020 is still using the average graded T-score so your subject results will be compared to the whole batch of students taking PSLE 2020 and your T-score will be moderated against the overall result of the whole batch of students. so if your one subject fail, your T score will drop a lot.

Since I do not have the overall scores for each subjects of all the students in 2020, i will use an estimated T-score formula to calculate your children's T-score to show my point.

Estimated T-score without knowing every subjects mean result = sum of subjects result x 0.75

If you have all subjects 90 marks, your estimated T-score is 270. What if your Chinese just pass by 50 marks,you will get estimated 240 and you could still apply for good schools but if you score 270 you could go any schools you want. This happens with any decrease in scores for any subjects involved.

Therefore we can conclude that Chinese is very important in your PSLE result so every subject is important in PSLE.

Why Chinese and not other subjects?
Because Chinese is a second language and its only used in school for 6-7 hours out of 60 hours in a normal week. That's about 10% of the school week teaching time.  The environment for studying Chinese in School as experienced by my students are quite negative, either the teachers have a lot to say but none of it is on study methods, or schools may prescribe study material yet nothing is said about what are the most important skills to master from those material. So most of the time, you can imagine every student is essentially going a up hill battle to master Chinese. 

However, Chinese is not hard to master at all (You need to know that the level of knowledge of Chinese has been altered to match that of the present day students) and one need to study it using strategies to maximize learning effectiveness. However you would see a lot of students study Chinese with pure determination or just plain give up. Not many students could figure out a way to study Chinese easily.

Why the 3 milestone plan worked?
The 3 milestone plan are very easy to monitor, very easy to follow and very easy to practice. The method build 2 things in the character of a student: Habits and progression. This is like a game where students know their status and results everyday. So if one student lacks progress. It could be easily caused by 2 things, either the student broke their good habits and develop bad ones, or the student is not effective in their study method or in other words the study method may not suit the students learning method.

How to tackle the PSLE Chinese Paper?

PSLE Chinese has 4 papers namely
Paper 1: Composition (picture composition or topic composition)
Paper 2: written paper which are divided into 2 sections, section A is to focus on words and sentences. Section B is to focus on comprehension.
Paper 3 is Listening Comprehension which your suppose to focus on listening and note some basic understanding.

Paper 4 is the oral paper which your suppose to focus on reading with emotion and speaking with confidence. Of course you would need to familiarize the students with words, phrases and sentences that are commonly used in certain topics.
Every paper requires some knowledge and some tactics to study them. This part could be up to the school teachers or parents.

There is 3 things to know in this method:
1) Score 50/50 for paper 2 section A.

2) Score 22/40 for paper 2 section B comprehension.
3) Score 32/40 for composition.
When you achieved the 3 milestones, you got 104 out of the 200 marks.

This excludes how well you score for oral and listening comprehension.

How long will results show?

Well, results only show when students do there tasks everyday for a certain duration.

I have a student who almost passed till primary 6 SA1 and he studied diligently for 1 year, then he passed his preliminary examination!

Will my child be suited for this method?
Maybe you should ask yourself 3 questions?
1) Will my child do his assigned task everyday without fail?
2) Will my child think that they deserved better results if they worked for it?
3) Will your child be motivated to do more everyday?

If your child says no to more than 1 questions then you need to motivate your child in the correct direction. I can show your child the way, but I cannot walk the path for him!

Lastly, every book on the shelves teach some sort of method to study, what I teach is very personal and its custom made for your child as I believe every child is different, so it is impossible to have one method that fits every child.

SMS or Whatsapp 9479  zero 187 with your name and your child's level for a free chat.
(Do Not Call as I do not answer unfamiliar calls. Thank You.)
Thank you for reading!

Chinese PSLE: How to avoid Number 1 mistake in Composition - wrongly spelled words

Chinese PSLE is stressful and students still suffer from numerous misspelled words like English. So students really need to study their mistake and avoid this number one mistake, misspelled words quickly.

Students often assumed they have written correctly and did not even think of the possibility that they may be wrong.I observed that most students just turn a blind eye on their mistake in the hope that the mistake is overlooked by the teachers, yet they do not know that teachers have a pair of very keen and sharp eyes which are trained to catch error faster than a leopard running.

Despite the years of training, Students tend to be very careless and sometimes arrogant as not only that they do not check their work, they do not even read their compositions after it was given back for corrections, they simply do the correction and forgotten to study their mistakes. 

Those mistakes would prevail composition after composition and their composition results will suffer. So how to avoid this number one mistake in composition?

1) Use a notebook to write down all the misspelled words in an orderly manner and study them everyday.
Taking notes has been very effective in helping students realize their mistakes and reinforcing their memory. 
The key point is to scan through last years compositions and record all your mistakes in the note book.
Then you need to add more mistakes made by scanning for them in the compositions that are handled to students in the future.
Lastly students need to revise the note book eveyday.

2) Use mnemonics
Mnemonic devices turn words into a picture, a story, a sentence or anything that makes memorizing them easier.
For example,

a) 照: one japanese (日) standing with a sword (刀) at the door (口) and killed four people (灬)

b) 明: one sun(日) and one moon(月) makes the skies bright(明).

c) 赢: dead(亡) mouth(口)moon(月)seashell(贝)common(凡).

3) know your radicals
Radicals are the smaller components of a character, 

Simple character are just one radical like 火、木、水、言、金etc. 

Compound characters are made out of 2 or more radicals such as 炎、 林、淼、警、鑫etc.

Each Radical may carry meaning while some radicals carries the hanyu pinyin (sound) of the character. some radicals do change form like a transformer in a character like 土becomes地,火becomes煮（the 灬means火fire).

Radicals that provides sound are like 青, you know the sound when you see 请、清、情、晴、氰、蜻. 

Radicals can be a category of things like 金 are like an element and you see words like 银(silver)、铜(copper)、铁(metal)、锡(tin)、铝(aluminum). 

Here is a list of 100 common radicals to start your journey into Chinese characters.
http://www.hackingchinese.com/media/100-radicals-peter.pdf

4) Check the dictionary
Dictionary is your friend, use them well and learn the hanyu pinyin well too.
a) fuzzy check using 汉语拼音
You can check for two character words with hanyu pinyin like this:-
gaoxing 高兴
shangxin 伤心

You can check for certain phrases like chengyu and common phrases using the following method.
bgsqesy 不管三七二十一

b) strokes check 比划
normal if you see a word and you know how to count strokes correctly, then use this method would be fast for one word.
- count the strokes for radicals
- count the strokes for the rest of the character.
-choose a word.

c)  writing check with a stylus.
change mode of checking (shu ru fa 输入法）to 书写.
then write the word on the screen.
(note: do not click on the screen as its not a responsive screen!)
wait a while for dictionary to recognize your writing.
choose the word.

Notes on the usage of dictionary in examinations, these are common advise by teachers:-
A) learn hanyu pinyin well.
B) write hanyu pinyin on the part where you do not know the writing of the word first.
C) check through all the blank words with the hanyu pinyin provided.

In practice, most students do not follow the above advise so they spent a lot of time on checking the dictionary and less time on the content and the flow of the story.

So I required all my students to be able to check dictionary in 15 seconds. Yes do not spend more than 15 seconds on checking dictionary, spent them on the content and the flow of the story.

5) Draw a picture of the word like 

6) guess a chengyu by looking at the picture.

答案：1 断章取义 2长话短说 3不三不四 4七上八下 5无中生有 6 7开门见山 8话中有话 9网开一面 10 鱼死网破11僧多粥少 12可圈可点13一五一十 14点到为止 15虎皮羊质

And the last one is to get all spelling 100 marks every time. Do spelling every day, start with 3-5 words a day to 200-500 words a semester. 

So start on the quest to stop misspellings now and hope your compositions will improve very quickly.

First Case studies of success 2017

Boy A was from a neighborhood primary school in Singapore and he has not passed composition and paper 2 in primary 4. When We get together to assess the situation at the end of primary 5, he was not too optimist about even passing paper 1 and paper 2. But from his eyes, I see a desire to achieve success in his PSLE.

So I make it very clear from the start that only hardworking pupils will make it, he was not comfortable but he said firmly, "I will get an A!"

So we went through the process of goal setting, target setting and every week we will review what need to be done and celebrate what had been done. He was not too hopeful back then but he carried out all his work diligently week after week.

He studied the word lists in primary 5 and 6 textbooks word by word, writing notes on their meaning, character and hanyu pinyin. He would repeat this process every month and continue to revise those words now and then. And every week we would go through those words and nouns and practice on reading those textbook passages repeatedly.

After 3 months, His composition almost passed and his paper 2 showed improvement especially section A MCQ where he got a pass 26/50.
(If you can write a composition with less grammar mistake, less sentence construction mistake and less misspelling then you have half won the battle.)





Then our focus turned to composition where he would write a composition every week, memorize a list of phrases and nouns and to try to memorize a good composition week after week.

The first composition is super hard, he was no used to memorizing so much content so we cut the composition into pieces of sentences. we started from the first sentence, then the second then the third and the last in the first paragraph. this process continued for several weeks until he got used to the process and the process got faster and faster. then we started to write the composition from memory.

Every week we learnt a new composition, read them out aloud and then memorized them. Then he was to write the composition using his own word words. Why not copy? well I have tried that and children tend to blindly copied everything and learnt nothing from it.


SA1 results shown that he not only passed paper 1 (24/40) and he passed paper 2 too. (I think its due to his expended vocabulary, his MCQ got 32/50.)

Then as July draws nearby, We again changed our focus to oral which is due mid September. There are 2 parts in oral, so we start to read out 5 oral passages weekly and hand in as audio clips via whatsapp or sms. He was delighted to hear his voice and I get to check on his process daily.

But He started to be nervous and felt pessimistic, falling for the weaker himself. I coach him on how to handle stress and fear. And he moved on.

Nearer oral, I practice with him the oral process and what the 3 questions would be. And I go through several topics which I think is very important for PSLE.

(Remember pre-oral I listed down the important contents(topics)

1) Keep our environments clean

2) Go Green, earth hour, recycling, reuse etc

3) Traffic safety

4) Healthy eating and living

5) Helping the needy, giving seats etc

6) Be independence like learn to cook, organizing school bags etc.

7) Values such as Responsibility, hardworking, Caring could be a topic too.

Well one of them is the oral topic!)

Prelims results was just released and he passed his composition and scored 42/50 for MCQ (topping his class). For section B, he got 28/40. So Prelim overall he got over 60% for Chinese Language. He was so happy with the result and he had never felt so much confidence with the subject. He will be ready when he is taking it on 2nd Oct.

Lastly, Use this book to check your child's understanding of Chinese Language in the coming PSLE.

(I'm the author of this book if you are not aware. Thank you. )

In conclusion, children need to take action on advise and not to do nothing except dreaming.
please contact me via my email
mrtan.sg@gmail. com

小学四年级华文第八课骑楼下

学习ppt

Primary 4 lesson 8 qilouxia chinese textbook from Tan Lm

理解课文ppt

第八课 《骑楼下》 课文理解 教学 Ppt from Tan Lm

闪卡

小学五年级华文第八课爱斯基摩人

Flashcard

爱斯基摩人 from arashiimonoyama

《爱斯基摩人》简报 from eeminz

北极的白天黑夜！


北极的画面

小学四年级华文第五课小飞机

什么是模型飞机？

动画

谁？

第五课《小飞机》

人物分析

	立明	“我”（作者）
人物 性格	有报复心理 勇于认错	粗心大意 勇于认错
从哪里 可以 知道	故意摔坏作者的小飞机 主动向作者认错道歉	没小心照顾好立明的飞机，把它摔坏了。 承认自己也有错，并请立明原谅。

学生示范词语动作

闪卡学习

小飞机 from 4Bsmart

小学五年级华文第五课露营记

《露营记》课文简图

PPT

露营记 from sunshine.gizmo

作文：《露营记》

写作文一定要：

• 用简单正确的句子，加上准确的用字。
• 要懂得用好词、佳句、俗语和成语谚语。
• 要有生动活泼的描写，不管是写看见的、听见的、摸到的、想念的、思考的，都要写一些。

作文例子：《露营记》

        “滴答!滴答!”时间一分一秒的流逝，而大家期待已久的日子-- 露营就要来临了。大家兴奋的神情全都洋溢在脸上。在忙忙碌碌的生活中，这时大家的心灵也得到了解放，盼望能在这次露营留下美好的记忆。

        活动当天一早，我们便向我们的目的地--九层岭（地点）出发了。一路上大家满心雀跃的心情也渲染了整个大地，使窗外的景色更加生意盎然，蓬勃的景色也使我们更加期待。在车上，大家嘻嘻哈哈的交谈着，却不知道这是暴风雨前的宁静，我们即将面对二天一夜的严苛生活。到了园区，严肃的气氛仿佛要将我们吞噬，首先是由我们的中队长，龙五进行魔鬼训练—基本仪态练习，替这次露营拉开了序幕，在开训典礼时，大家无不是挺起身子、竖起耳朵，谛听台上的命令，大家整齐如一的动作，也使我们的中队更具向心力。

        不久后，我们便开始搭建我们可爱的家，到了下午，我们开始进行分站活动，而漆弹射击当然是大家最期待的课程之一，大家无不是既紧张又兴奋，穿好了所有装备，便开始进行一场刺激的漆弹射击。到了傍晚，大家的肚子开始咕噜咕噜作响，便饥肠辘辘的回到营区，开始准备我们美味的晚餐，大家手忙脚乱的模样是前所未有的，而我们也煮出了「丰盛」的一餐。

        越夜越美丽，烟火在星空中不断绽放，替营火晚会拉开了序幕。各班级的表演也十分精采，大家跟着中队长开始舞动，欢呼声、呐喊声直逼天际，也使晚会到了最高点。而快乐的时光总是流逝得特别快，不知不觉已快闭幕了，大家手中的蜡烛一根根被点亮，就像替我们心中点起一道又一道的希望，在将来的日子里替我们照明，这感动的一刻是大家难以忘怀的。闭幕后，大家拖着疲惫的身体回到帐篷中，甜甜的进入梦乡。

        一日之计在于晨，一大早大家便起床做早餐了，补充完能量后，也开始了崭新的一天，便开始进行今天的活动。记忆最深刻的课程非双三索教学莫属了，既紧张又刺激的心情仍然记忆犹新呢!站在钢索上，摇摇晃晃，心情也随之忐忑不安，但大家还是鼓起勇气，一步一步前行走，突破、克服自己的恐惧，到了对岸，大家脸上都露出开心的笑容，想再次体验呢!而攀岩也大受同学们的欢迎，一脚一步慢慢的攀爬，深怕一个不小心就踩空了，这时大家努力的程度也是不容小觑的，同学们接二连三的通过考验，脸上也漾出了充满自信的神情，而我们也完成了最后一个课程。又到了大家最期待的时刻，经过几次的煮饭经验，大家的厨艺也进步了不少，大家也发挥自己的创造力，将食材的煮法多样化，而大家经过一早的活动后，便饿得开始大快朵颐，无不吃得津津有味呢!

        时光飞逝，即将面临依依不舍的场面，虽然这是趟艰辛但又充满欢乐的露营之旅，经过与同学相处两天一夜后，大家也更加团结、有默契。在结训典礼上，大家再次拿出活泼的一面，替这趟露营画下美好的句点。这次露营点点滴滴的记忆也深深的烙印在我的脑海中，形成日后最美好、最珍贵的回忆。

现在看一看小学生的作文范文。

南洋小学《南洋文萃》 《露营记》 2012年  5B 胡颖荷

        今年南洋小五三天两夜的露营活动太令我难忘了！

        2月8日一大清早，我们的巴士车队就浩浩荡荡地开到了露营地。两百多个学生背着大包小包，吃力地走下巴士，但个个又是满脸笑容，兴奋不已。

        按照露营指导员的指示，大家安顿下来之后，就立刻进入了“大玩家”的世界。

        第一天，最令我难忘的活动就是划船。我们两个人一组，一人坐在船头，另一人坐在船尾，分工合作划动木浆。上船前，老师让我们喝下大量的水—-每人至少半瓶水，说这样才不至于在阳光底下暴晒之后出现脱水的现象。

        一上船，海水就溅到我们脸上，大家忍不住大喊大叫起来。露营指导员立刻严肃地批评我们，说我们不该这么胆小。大家都惭愧地安静下来，听从指挥。

        我和我的组员一边有节奏地喊着“一、二，一、二”，一边用尽力气用桨划船。虽然指导员强调大家不用比速度，只要注意方法，但我和组员在掌握了方法后还是决定尽快到达目的地。我发现自己有个缺点，就是性子急，当我的组员慢吞吞时，我就会催他快一点，因为我脑中忽然想起了“逆水行舟，不进则退”这句话。后来，我们这条船是最晚出发，最先回到出发点的。大家虽然全身都湿透了，但是兴奋之情非笔墨所能形容。

        第二天，大家都早早地起床了。吃过简单的早餐后，露营指导员给我们讲解了攀岩的各种注意事项。我没试过攀岩，但是在电视上看见别人爬时觉得很刺激，恨不能马上就去试试身手。

        “颖荷，到你了！”露营指导员喊到了我的名字。我顿时有点儿紧张，不过，还是沉住气，一步一步向上爬了。越爬越高，越爬越高，我看到了蓝天、白云，它们似乎向我张开了双臂在欢迎我，我就放松下来。一转眼的工夫，我又降落到地面。因为原先的紧张，我手心都冒出了汗。

         后来还剩下一点时间，露营指导员要再选择两个人尝试爬到最顶层，爬不上去就要给大家跳支舞。我“不幸”被选中了。虽然我跳舞挺好看的，不过，既然是攀岩活动，我就想“一定不能丢脸！一定要爬上去！”后来爬到中间，遇到一个突出的地方，我的手差点抓不到固定点。我提醒自己不要紧张，冷静地将身体向右移动了一点，就成功攀上了顶端。为我加油的同学们欢呼起来，我也开心得合不拢嘴。回到地面，同学们都围在我身边，问我难不难之类的问题，让我感觉自己像个得胜归来的大英雄似的！

        晚上的营火晚会将整个露营活动的气氛推到了最高潮。晚饭后指导员就布置每班准备一个节目，可以唱歌、跳舞、表演等等。演得最好的一班会每人获得一个小奖品。我们决定努力做得最好。当然，大家心里很清楚，我们要的不是那个小奖品，而是更深厚的友情和大家一起努力之后获得的荣誉。我班用了二十分钟才决定表演唱歌及加油歌。剩下的四十分钟大家就开始排练。表演的时候，我们一班四十二人，情绪高昂，激情满怀，把嗓子都喊哑了，我估计没有一个人发出的是平常正常的声音，观众们也被我们的热情感染，笑得东倒西歪的。“冠军是……”当指导员宣布结果时，我们又紧张又期待：“……5B班！”同学们起先不敢相信自己的耳朵，回过神来后就欢呼起来，把我们的班长推上了领奖台。

        要是有人问我会不会忘掉南小的这次露营活动，我定会毫不犹豫地回答：“不会！”通过这次露营活动，我们同学们之间加深了了解和友情；大家离开父母的怀抱在外生活了几天，尝试了集体生活，锻炼了独立生活的能力；平时顽皮的同学们只要同心协力也能呈现令人刮目相看的成果……难忘的小五露营，让我们长大了！

闪卡学习
 

Target Setting for 2017

Every school prints out a Diary with the following pages called "Target setting" and its divided into 4 pages for CA1, SA1, CA2 and SA2/Prelim for all levels.

Now most children either did not bother to set a target or did not bother to think of some actionable ways to achieve their targets. This is so sad as they are set to fail if they did not plan to win.

This is a famous saying:-

So to get the result you desires, you have to decide on the following things about planning, Firstly, What targets to set is reasonable for you? Yes there is no point setting a target 3 grades above your grade unless you are willing to really set 3-7 hours everyday to work towards your target. What I am saying is its not impossible, but its a 1 in a thousand chance you are that hardworking for the whole year daily.

Secondly, check if you target is measurable, that is it is a number or grade that you can obtain or achieve. If its to reach for the sky, you need to set a target like "I can travel to 2 kilometers to 100 kilometers above sea level so that i can reach the level of the cloud is." So setting a target like " I want to achieve Grade A in Chinese" rather than " I want to get good result in Chinese."

Thirdly, What actions are required to achieve it and what smaller milestones to set to reach the big target?

The third thing is a target is you need to put up at least 5 actionable things to do. Here I will list out some of the common actionable things to do to improve Chinese/English Language.

1) Study last year's spelling again and every day and do self test to make sure I understand those words.

2) Study this years spelling every day and do self test to make sure i understand those words.

3) Listen to all the chapters of last years textbook again daily in http://xuele.moe.edu.sg/xuele/slot/u107/index1.html

4) Listen to all the present chapter in the textbook daily in xuele.

5) Read aloud and record the words in every chapters of last years' textbook in a handphone recording program daily.

6) Read aloud the chapter that I am learning now daily.

7) Read a composition from a composition book every day.

8) copy a paragraph from a composition out of a composition book every day.

9) circle the good phrases from a compostition out of a composition book and compile a good phrase book.

10) take the good phrases book and do a 5 phrase spelling every day.

11) listen to  Hello Singapore Chinese News site. watch one episode every day. http://video.toggle.sg/en/hello-singapore-6156072

12) Watch one episode and write doen the main point of the news and practice telling someone the news daily.

13) Tell someone a story daily.

14) write down your story in schools daily, omit all the commonly happened events and focus on writing on something Special.

15) Read Stories to someone daily.

Take a page from the above 15 item list and do up a actionable plan.

Lastly, Take a calendar and fill up ONE actionable item every day.

Start NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forward to PSLE 2017 Chinese Step 1

Now is December Holidays and those Primary 5 students should start planning for PSLE Chinese 2017 now. As the saying goes,"Failing to plan is planning to fail." so now I'm here to outline a few steps to help your child succeed in PSLE Chinese.

The ten steps to success in PSLE Chinese 2017.

Step 1, Know thy enemies, understand oneself and the battle is half won

A) Do you know when the PSLE is going to happen?
Here is the document from SEAB MOE Singapore (dated 7 Dec 2016).















From the document, your child needs to be prepared for oral by August, Listening comprehension and all written papers, that is composition and paper 2 by September. So from now to September is about 9 months or about 270 days.

B) The next thing about the exam is that you need to know how much your child should know in order to be successful.

The first things your child have should be a good foundation and that includes at least 3 things:
Firstly, your child should have a good understanding of all the words as taught in the primary 4 to 6 textbooks. And your child should be able to use those words to form simple sentences correctly.
By the way, your child need to roughly know the workload which is about 400 words or 1000 words.
Most children will see the above number and felt its impossible. well lets be proactive, and assume your child want to know all of them in 4 months. Your child could study 1000/4/30=8.3 words every day for the 4 months.
So by studying 8 words every day, your child will revised 1000 words in 4 months. That looks more workable than studying 1000 words in 4 months.
Yes a lot of children do not know the tactics to get what they want. by simply divide the work loan into smaller workable pieces will help your child do a lot in a short time.
And a lot of parents said, "my child will forget what they learnt fast." well that's why this process should be revised constantly.

Secondly, your child should be able to write grammatically correct Chinese sentences with minimum spelling errors.
This involved both reading and writing. Reading helps to reinforce your child's understanding of sentence structure and grammar in the same time helps with word recognition and understanding.. while writing forces your child to put words in paper. Your child will need to form the sentences, verify them grammatically  and lastly write them down.
Conversation helps your child in their understand and usage of  those words in real time and it helps your child in their thinking processes.

Thirdly, your child should be well versed in expressive phrases and be fluent in oral conversations especially those common nouns and adjectives. And the ability to tell stories fluently is important too.
By reading well written compositions and learning the authors' word usage, your child will gain an understanding into the thinking processes which helps to form good sentences and what are the good words to use in certain situations.

C) Lastly, your child should have an idea about success in PSLE Chinese.
Is it a pass, or a A? your child should know what are they getting now and project a target that they can achieve or want to achieve.

Why set a Goal?
Children without a goal will lose focus very fast and sink into their habits and eventually be as good as they are now. Your child cannot improve by doing what they are doing now.

To do different things consistently requires your child to be accountable for their own results. Most children expect teacher and parents to do for them while they continue their bad habits, their results will almost be impossible to improve.

But I have to forewarn parents and children not to set an aim as high as 2 times your children's present grade. For example Linda got an D grade and aim for a pass, that's a aim that is achievable with some effort like 30 minutes a day revision. However, if Linda is to set a target of A, that is 2 grades higher than her present grade, She would need to prepare to study 10 times harder than her peers to achieve her target that is to spend 2 hours daily on her revision and drill exercises.There is no free lunch, if you desire result, then you have to give out luxuries in life to study.

Furthermore the goal should be your child's desired success.

I can help your child in Primary 6 or before that in their PSLE and help them maximize their potential in Chinese. I had been teaching and guiding children outdo themselves in psle for 10 years. Every  year I have students that got A or A* when they just passed a while ago. If you think I can help your child please drop an email at mrtan.sg@gmail.com for Mr Tan

Please use "A1 Chinese " follow by your name and email/tel no. Thank you. 

continue step 2 at a later date.

PSLE CL 2017 Part 1 Oral Video

Next year, MOE will bring the change of PSLE Chinese format in place.

Video in Oral vs Picture Oral and picture description+opinion vs 3 open-ended questions style oral
This year, MOE has test run the Video Oral programme in Secondary and Primary schools and using ICT to conduct Oral is a huge step to streamline PSLE examination ICT involvement.

Ok the main change in Oral format is the usage of Video to stimulate thinking and speaking. Video makes objects 3 Demensional, real time and that should helped pupils think it is easier. Well you have to think twice as there is a lot of details in the video that you have to pause and watch, most pupil missed the point the go ahead anyway, to get trapped in the their egoistic mind. Yes you cannot just watch the video once and be confidence of taking the examinations. There are more than meets the eyes details in the video that is missed by the untrained eyes.

3 Details often missed by pupils:-
1) The moral of the video is always in the narrative at the first 5 seconds of the video, you want to make sure you truly understands this narrative. pupil always need to remember at least 3 things that happened in the video.

2) The 3 main questions are almost asked in order but the questions asked may varied according to the teacher asking and the pupil taking the examination.

3) The highest mark goes to the pupil who is familiar to the words and phrases used in that kind of situations in the video and most will require pupil's to be able to tell a story that had happened in his life which could be fabricated.

Please contact me if you need help in helping your child to be ready for PSLE.CL.
mrtan.sg@gmail.com.

2017年口试须知

小学五年级高级华文第十四课

小学五年级高级华文第十三课

小学五年级高级华文第十二课

谷歌有翻译真好玩！

最近，我找到一个好好玩的玩具叫做“谷歌翻译”Google Translate。

为什么说它好玩，因为它解决了现代学生最大的一个问题--英语/或其他语言翻译成华文语句。

想想它的用处：

1. 华文作文直接用最美丽的“英文”来写。有时会词不达意，但是好过残句废段吧。
2. 口头运用时，随时学新句式。从此再也没有用英语来讲华语的必要了。“不必Transfer巴士去Interchange了。”
3. 如果没有看清楚字怎么写，横放就能呈现大写。

如果你问去哪里找，Google Translate Apps 或http://translate.google.com.sg/?hl=en&tab=wT#。

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