Every year PSLE Oral test pupils for their spoken Chinese language, and I do collect those oral topics but they are not complete yet.
PSLE Chinese Oral from 2017 to 2018
2017 Day 1
(Neighborhood Relationship)
Neighbors placing obstacles along the corridor
Keeping school corridor clean
Day 2
(户外活动Outdoors Activities)
Video showed the
characters riding bicycle, blowing bubbles, having pinic.
What are the advantages of outdoor activities
Should Schools encourage students to carry out outdoor activities (+ why/why
not)
Year 2018
Day 1
(Seeking help/Learning from friends)
旁述：同学之间应该互相帮助，关心友爱 - What would you do if you are the boy (facing difficulties
with his work)? - Do you think friends are the best/good source of
help/learning? Why? - Give examples of how friends can help each other? - How would you react when your friend points out your
mistakes/weaknesses you? - Share an experience in which you learnt from your friend.
Watch the following programme and engage in a conversation about the topic in the Video.
Skills to develop: 1) Obsevation 2) Analysis 3) Listening Skills
Try to Answer the following Questions:
一、你在录像中看到了什么？
Skills required: 5 W 1 H (Who,when,where,what,why and How), Detail observation, intense listening skills.
二、在生活中，你有看到自己或别人保护环境吗？谈谈那次的经验。
Skills required: quickly figure out the moral of the video and Story telling skills,
三、你认为这样做才能让新加坡人爱护环境？
Skills required: Analysis of the issue and quickly come up of 3-5 ways that SIngaporeans can help to solve the problem.
Sorry, no hanyu pinyin, In PSLE students need to listen carefully to the questions and interpret them correctly. Then students have to analysis the topic and choose a story relevance to the topic to tell.
Last questions is part of the argumentative essay which requires one to come up with a few solutions so that Singaporeans can help solve the problem or promote awareness of the issue.
If you need the modal answer to these question please email to mrtan.sg@gmail with the subject header "oral1 (space) name (space) answer" Thank you.
Step 2 to PSLE Chinese success is to gather your resources for the preparation.
(A) Study Notes
First you need to get hold of primary 4 to 5 Chinese textbooks. If your child's school has a set of notes, it would be fine. if you cannot get it, then you have to ask your contacts for the last few pages of the Chinese textbook which is the bilingual word lists for that level.
For primary 6 textbook word list, it is at the last few pages of the textbook. I have compiled a study guide using the word list with words, meaning, pinyin and even a model sentence for every word and its in this book (FYI I am the author and I will get some royalty when you purchase this book.)
(B) Edictionary
Next your child needs to prepare a eDictionary as required by SEAB for use in PSLE.
Most model now are similar in features and equally small in size.
Hansvision PX2051 is an old model while PX2131 is the latest model.
Compare Besta Models
All Pass 1 Features (On Besta website, All Pass 1 is not listed.)
Built-in with Contemporary Chinese Dictionary, strengthening your learning power.
Built-in with writing strokes for the basic 2000 words in accordance to the Chinese character list for Primary and Secondary schools in Singapore.
A special hot key to show the writing sequence of the Chinese word.
Able to display two different types of Chinese fonts.
Input method for Chinese words includes both Hanyu Pinyin and total strokes.
All words and phrases are pronounced in accordance with its Hanyu Pinyin symbol.
Able to display up to 6 level of explanation through highlighting the word or phrases.
All Pass 2 Features
新编学生实用词典 - 新亚出版社
现代汉语词典 - 中国社会科学院语言研究所
汉语词典 及 成语词典
手写辨识 - 手写即可输入中文
单字笔画顺序演示
切换显示字型大小
30层交互查询视窗
作文及中文学习资料 - 标点符号， 量词等
参考资料 - 常用题词/百家姓/三字经/弟子规
世家时间/日历/计时器/秒表
A Practical Chinese Dictionary for Students (Singapore Asia Publishers Pte Ltd)
The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - Institute of Linguistics)
Chinese Dictionary and Dictionary of Chinese Idioms
Chinese Handwriting Recognition
Stroke Order Demonstration
Display Font Size Toggling
30 Cross-search Windows
Composition & Chinese Learning Materials such as Punctuation, Classifier etc
Reference Materials such as Common Epigraph《常用题词》, Hundred Family Surnames《百家姓》 , Standards for Being a Good Student and Child《弟子规》, The Three Character Classic《三字经》
World Time, Calendar, Timer
I would often recommend Hansvision model because it has two features that helps students in examinations:-
Quick and easy HansVision Initial Consonant Input method E.g. mmhh = 马马虎虎
Time saving intelligent wildcard search capability: E.g. 不*不* = 不卑不亢，不慌不忙，etc...
And the above features extend to phrases.
Besta All Pass 2 is similiar to PX2131 but is a bit more durable.
For a one time use, just get PX2051. If you want to pass down edictionary to younger brothers or sisters, get Besta All Pass 2.
If you need to use the pen feature to recognise the composition helping words, choice only PX2131 or All Pass 2.
(C) Model Compositions
To Excel in composition there are two roads that will achieve your aim:-
i) Read a lot of story book and reread all primary 5 to 6 textbook passages and your child will figure out for themselves the way of the composition,
ii) Read, understand, memorized model compositions in various situations and write a short paragraph daily which will help your child digest what they read.
So a few very good model essays which is A to A* graded would be a good start. Get them when your child's school do publish chinese composition books.
or get a compile of good compositions from friends or school.
The method from potato to 34/40 in composition is described here as a process.
"Little Boy memorized his very first Chinese composition last year in Nov-Dec 2010. We are now September 2011. It has been 10 months. The start was most onerous indeed. To describe the first 25 compo memorizations as long and hard toil, is perhaps an understatement. He could not recognize more than half the words in each compo. The compos were taken from a compendium of 1000 Best Compositions from the equivalent of China's PSLE. They were at least 3 to 4 years above his reading level then. Grandma read them into a digital audio file and Little Boy plugged in the speakers and listened and followed and memorized and recited to me.
The very first week, he spent 7 hours a day reciting these compos. I sat near him. I worked near him. It was, for me, like nursing a querulous sick child back to health. You stay there by his side so that he has the strength to carry on, and to not give up on a task that looked impossible to him. There was nothing I could do for him because I am illiterate in Chinese. It was a bit like watching your child battle critical illness and not be able to do anything but hold his hand and stay nearby.
From reciting others' works, he moved on to writing his own. We were thrilled that he could score 34/40 for a piece of compo homework. But those 3 pages meant 6 hours of sustained effort. Under the timed conditions of 50 minutes in the exam, he failed his compo at the mid-year exams. However, he did very well for his Comprehension because all the reading and recitation had improved his word recognition immensely. Thanks to the recitation, he scored wonderfully for Oral reading because he was expressive and he could recognise all the words in the text. Overall, he managed to do well enough to avoid being asked to attend supplementary classes. Even though he had failed his compo, I convinced him that it was still a triumph to be celebrated."
From the blog post : http://petunialee.blogspot.sg/2011/09/reaching-tipping-point-for-chinese-part.html
(D) For oral practices, Videos presents a normally 2D situation in a 3D way so that your child has not only need to pay attention to details in the video but they have to figure out the Big picture of the Video as Question 2 and 3 will be dircetly linked to the Moral of the story of the Video.
For daily practice, describe news videos segment by segment from News 8.
http://tv.toggle.sg/en/channel8/news/ch-8-news-tonight/episodes
Choose stories related to normal Singaporean children lifestyles will be nice.
Yes, daily practice all the news segments until your child can say them out loud and maintain eye contact.
Ok now is the important part, the 3 questions commonly asked about the video:-
1) Talk about one detail in the video that interested you?
For parents who think this is easy, try them out yourself in chinese!
2) What is the moral of the story of this video, and tell us about one thing that you have done to related to the moral of the story
3) What can we (as students) do to help enhance the moral of the story.
For an example see below
In short, try to gather the few things below:-
1) Textbook from primary 4 to 6, print out the last few pages which looked like a small guide book with words, pinyin, and English meaning.
2) Buy a Edictionary
3) Find A to A* composition either from school, friends or internet
4) go browse each news segment in channel 8 news, use toggle catch up video to watch and rewatch. Then ask your child to answer the 3 commonly asked questions.
That all for part 2, Wait for Part 3
For any enquires, email mrtan.sg@gamil.com for Mr Tan.
Thank you for reading. Hope it helps..
