A great way to revise for the upcoming English Paper 1 Preliminary is by planning out previous questions. We do this every year right before the Prelim composition. Thanks to my P6 students every year, we always have a list to work with. Below is the SA1 2021 List of Read more…
The preliminary Oral testing has begun for the P6 students. One of the themes that were tested so far was water conservation. Every year, I work on the themes of both water conservation and recycling with my students, and fortunately, we had done so during the June holidays. Below is Read more…
As the June holidays are drawing to an end, we have been preparing for the upcoming Preliminary Oral examinations. This will take place any time from mid-July to a week before PSLE oral. The preliminary oral examination is the last ‘practice’ run before the real thing – the PSLE Oral. Read more…
This post is overdue. I was planning to post this list at the start of the school holidays but it has been a very busy 3 weeks. With the move to solely online classes, it has been a hectic time organising and teaching all our June holiday workshops online. A Read more…
Who vs Whom is another confounding grammatical rule. To help understand how we can use ‘who’ and ‘whom’ correctly, here are 3 simple rules. Subject vs Object ‘Who’ is used to refer to a subject in a sentence The Subject in the sentence is a ‘Do-er’. Whom is used to Read more…
English grammatical rules can be somewhat confusing, to say the least. With different rules to remember, a number of exceptions to the rules, and different ‘expert’ opinions, it is easy for students (and even teachers) to get confused. Many P6 students will be having their English Paper 2 component next Read more…
The topic of food and healthy eating is one of the most common themes tested during oral examinations. This is one of the first topics that I do with all my students, from P4 – P6. By the time the PSLE Oral arrives, students should be confident when answering questions Read more…
This week marks the start of the SA1 Oral component for many of our P6 students. In the next few weeks, our P4 students will also be having their SA1 Oral. In today’s blog post, I will focus on the Reading Aloud portion of the Oral component. These tips apply Read more…
Certain themes can be difficult for students to write on. Describing certain emotions that are not often dealt with in compositions can be challenging for some. Recently, we worked on the theme of embarrassment. Unlike being sad, happy or afraid, describing being embarrassed is an emotion not often described during Read more…
The Editing section of the PSLE Paper 2 is one of the easier components, that is if you are able to spot the grammatical and spelling mistakes. If a student has a good grammatical foundation (and that would be the aim by the time the student starts his P6 year), Read more…