Ending of SA1 Examinations, What is your after thought?

SA1 has mostly ended for a lot of your child and now it is time to take inventory.

First you need to fill up a quick checklist

Chinese SA1 2017
Name:_____________________
Primay 5 / 6 - (                                                )
School : __________________________________School
Date : _________/_____________/2017


Paper 1 (question 1 or 2) : __________/40
Question 1 is the themed composition while question 2 is picture composition.

Result:__________/40
(1-20: your child needs to really copy and understand 10 compositions.
21-30: your child needs to memorised those common composition words and phrases
31-40: you child has done well and they can improve on their grammar and help them read widely so that they can expand their vocabulary and learn different ways to express themselves.)

Paper 2: _________/90
detailed analysis
Section A:  ________/50
Section B:  ________/40

If section A scored less than 45, your child needs to revise all the primary 5 and 6 new words and phrases in every chapter and reinforces their knowledge by doing sentence construction every day. Hanyu Pinyin, word application, grammer and vocabulary are essential in this section.

If section B scored less than 20, than your child either need to overcome comprehension phobia by doing more comprehension questions, or they need to be very careful in their answers and be encouraged to write more. Its better to make some errors(1.5-3.5 marks) than to get 0-5 marks in this section.
Comprehension is actually quite easy to score if they mastered the vocabulary and the grammar. students don't read precisely because they don't recognise words and cannot understand deeper meaning.

Students need to read their textbook texts aloud everyday, do record them their reading in smart phones so that they can hear their own voices.do read all the chapters in primary 5 to 6 textbooks to expose them to a variety of texts.
use xuele.edumall.sg for all the reading texts online.

After reading all the textbook texts, let them read story books on audio. This will expand their knowledge of words.

Yes you may train your child to memorise the words and meaning together with hanyu pinyin from primary 4-6 textbooks too.

Paper 3: Video Oral and conversations. _______/50
Reading passage:      ________/20
Video Conversation: ________/30

Reading passages

Make sure there is NO Hanyu Pinyin, as Hanyu Pinyin would be more a hindrance than an aid. There will NOT be Hanyu Pinyin in the examination passage so your child had to take the hard path else they will lose they edge in examination.

Reading the textbook texts everyday is one of the best ways to improve on reading passage.

The other method to improve reading passages is to take psle passages from the psle booklet and learn every words via edictionary or google translate! until your child can fluently recite the passage in whole.

Video Oral is new and the content tested are actually quite different, new text format actually are more conversational then mere describing a picture.

This means your child need to be able to converse along common theme such as recycling, coutesy, manners, success etc.
To train your child to talk with some content, please let talk to them about these topics and guide them about the main points.

Question 1: what do you see in the video, describing in details the events in the video.

Question 2: Did you or your friend done something and what do you think or feel?

Question 3: What do you think the school can do for the students regarding this problem?

Do ensure they can have more than 1 point per question and they can go in depth with their own insight.



Paper 4: Listening comprehension : ________/20

Generally students can score in this paper as it just involved with basic listening skills and some analytic skills.

listening skills can be trained via xuele.edumall.sg by letting your child listen to the audios, or by listening to radios, or by listening/viewing channel 8 news via
Cheng guang di yi xian
news 8 at one
hello singapore
Singapore today
News tonight
Channel 8 news youtube channel


Now we are coming to the end of term, if your child is getting negative like saying things like cannot do, hard to do, don't know, I am weak etc, please talk to them positively, change their negative state quickly before it become a vicious cycle.

Now let Tony Ribbons give you some ideas to help your child turn their dreams to reality by changing their states quickly.

Now if your child is in stress or anxiety, learn to cope.

Now with SA1 finished or near finished, I hope your child has build a habit of studying. Studying is not hard, its building a habit of studying that is hard.

Your child's good study habits will be their future good work habits and ethos so it pays to build their habits early.

Email mrtan.sg@gmail.com
if you need your child to attend special intensive PSLE/primary 5 training camps in my home for the coming June holidays.

* The intensive camp will be 5 days (3 hours each) to help your child quickly increase their Chinese Vocabulary in 5 days via games and activities.

*Each class is limited to 5 children so that we can maximize learning.

If you are interested please email mrtan.sg@gmail.com
If you think your friend or relative's child may benefit from this intensive camp, please share with them this message.

Lastly let me share a quote with your child

PSLE Oral Exam Help Part 1

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.

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.

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