Special PMR Tips & Tricks Seminar

Paper 2: Section A

Welcome

What do they want?To see whether you are able to: write the required task use correct & appropriate language

05 grand National Day Celebration at your school06 a campsite for your family trip07 Johan’s car breakdown experience08 Safety measures in school09 Your experience at an old folks home10 Rahim and a bag of money11 Chose between 2 places for your holiday12 Qualities of a good student

Section A: Guided Writing

Format 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12Report +Inform

al Letter

+

Story + +Speech + +Article +Essay +

Marking CriteriaBAND EXCELLENT CREDIT ACHIEVEME

NT WEAK VERY WEAK

MARKS 25 - 21 20 - 16 15 - 11 10 - 6 5 - 1Requirem

ents of Task

Fulfilled Largely fulfilled

Sufficiently fulfilled

Partially fulfilled

Hardly fulfilled

IdeasWell-developed

& well-organised with

supporting details

Developed & organised with some supporting

details

Sufficiently developed but lack details; adequately organised

Less developed,

lacks organisation

Disorganised; lacks cohesion

Language

Accurate with few minor

errors & first draft slip

Largely accurate

Sufficiently accurate

Partially accurate Inaccurate

Sentence

Structure

Varied & used

effectivelyMostly varied

Sufficiently varied Lacks variety Distorted

Vocabulary

Wide & aptly used

Wide enough & mostly apt

Sufficient to convey

meaning but lacks precision

Limited Inappropriate

Mechanics of

WritingAccurate Mostly

accurate Some errors Numerous errors

Serious errors

Interest of

ReaderAroused & sustained

Largely aroused & sustained

Sufficiently aroused

Hardly aroused

Meaning hardly

conveyed

1.Read the question.2.Underline

keywords.3.Notice the format.4.List down all the

connectors, idioms, phrasal verbs, proverbs you can remember.

5.Plan 1 paragraph per picture. 4-5 sentences per paragraph.

6.Plan an introduction & a conclusion.

7.Write.

Steps

Use correct tenses, sentence structure, spelling, punctuation, prepositions

Organise & write in proper paragraphs

Use correct linkage/connectors Use a wide range of impressive/exact

vocabulary, phrases, idioms Be creative & interesting Write at least a 1 page long essay

How To Score

1 essay has 3 parts:› Introduction – 1 paragraph› Body – 2-3 paragraph› Conclusion – 1 paragraph

Each paragraph has 3 things:› Main idea› Elaboration› Examples

Write 1 paragraph per picture.

In Your Essay

YOU MUST: Plan your essay! Use all the words given Write as much as you can! Past/Present Tense Use idioms/phrasal verbs Use connectors Use correct format

YOU MUST: Study all the Formats Use S V O Use ‘…and so on’ Use ‘There

is/are/was/were…’ Use ‘For example,…’ Use ‘This is because…’

Subject + Verb + Object I eat apples. He plays football every day. The dog killed the mouse. Chocolate I like. I tomorrow go. Shoot wild boar.

S V O

as easy as pie green light in the pink of health true colours kill two birds with one stone raining cats and dogs give someone a hand through thick and thin

Idioms

Do not count your chickens before they hatch

Do not judge a book by its cover Experience is the best teacher Every cloud has a silver lining Prevention is better than cure The early bird catches the worm Where there is a will, there is a way

Proverbs

calm down count on cut off deal with drop by find out pass away turn down

Phrasal Verbs

Firstly, Next, Then, Moreover, Furthermore, Besides, However, (Negative) Finally, In conclusion,

Connectors

Be Careful: No BM! No short forms!

› do not, cannot, I am No ‘I and my friends’.

› My friends and I ‘was studied’ is NOT Past

Tense.› studied

Be Careful: ‘a rooms’ is wrong.

› rooms ‘many boy’ is wrong.

› many boys ‘And then,’ is wrong!

› Then ‘People’ no ‘-s’.

› Many people› One person

Know the Difference: no vs know than vs then when vs went their vs there I vs me perfect vs prefect anything vs everything

Know the Difference: took vs talk life vs live here vs hear smile vs smell find vs fine by vs buy quite vs quiet

Conclusion & Questions

The End