P4 English – An unlucky day composition I hope that the younger ones are weathering the Circuit Breaker well 🙂 I have been talking with my P3 and P4 students once a week when we have our live streaming classes and last week I gave them an assignment to give Read more…
Primary 4 English: Cloze Passage The Vocabulary cloze passage component is one of the most challenging components of the PSLE Paper. From Primary 5, students have to face filling in 15 blanks with appropriate grammar or vocabulary. Even students confident in English language cringe as they lose countless marks in Read more…
Primary 4 English Vocabulary List As we begin the school year, I have been preparing Primary English Vocabulary lists for my lower primary students. The vocabulary section of examination papers have been steadily getting more challenging, even for lower primary students. Aside from the vocabulary sections of the examination papers, Read more…
Primary 4 English Model Composition: Caught in the rain This Primary 4 English composition was not done in one of my P4 classes. It was the SA2 Composition theme for one of my Primary 4 2019 students, Celine. During the year that she has been with us, Celine has grown Read more…
Primary 4 English Synthesis and Transformation English Synthesis and Transformation is not consistently taught and tested in Primary 4 classes and examinations. However, a number of schools do test this component in their Primary 4 English SA2. During the PSLE Intensive marking days, my P4s and P5s were hard at Read more…
P4 English Oral model – Places of Interest Most of my P4s and a few of my P5s are having their English Oral examination in the next two weeks. It is good to remind students that in the choice question (Q1), students should remember to give MORE than one reason Read more…
P4 English Oral Model – Teacher’s day As oral ‘season’ begins, we are hard at work revising and testing our P5 students. Our P3 and P4 classes have also been working diligently on this component. Before the September holidays, we worked on the above theme, focusing on the choice question Read more…
P4 English Composition Theme – A Challenge As my P4s move on to P5 work next week, we ended off the P4 year with a composition test. Most weeks I guide them in their weekly compositions at the planning stage and discussion. So, it is always good to test them Read more…
P4 English Composition Theme – Something Exciting The last composition that our P4 class worked on was called Something Exciting. As I would like my P4s and P5s to be extra careful with composition themes, we firstly worked on words and phrases to complement the theme. These words and phrases Read more…
P4 English Composition – A Regret As students move on from their SA1 Oral to their SA1 Paper 1, please keep the following in mind. (1) The theme Read your theme carefully and study the pictures. Make sure that you use the at least ONE picture and integrate it well Read more…