Question 1 :

…..write Five (5) sentences

Candidates are required to write 5 sentences about the situation given in the composite picture

….were able to write compound and complex sentences based on the situation given with hardly any grammatical and spelling errors.

e.g The lady with a scarf is pouring some orange juice into the glasses while talking to the girl sitting on the stool.

The girl with a ponytail is stirring the paint

while sitting on a stool

….made a lot of structural errors and are poor in their grammar usage. Their vocabulary is very limited.

Mistakes often detected : i. Grammar : e.g Ali is standing biside her sister.i. Vocabulary : e.g The lady is pushing a wheelchair.

iii. Irrelevancy : e.g One day the family is shopping at the

supermarket.

Candidates in the Excellent group

……were able to transfer information accurately and accordingly into the framework.

Candidates in the Weak group i. Candidates transfer the information blindly

without understanding the required information in the framework.

ii. Candidates had poor handwriting with many punctuations and spelling errors.

( mixture of capital and small letters) They use full stops and comma unnecessarily. They break up a word without putting a hyphen(-) due to limited space given in the box.

i. Omission of letter as in…. e.g “ sings three songs” to “sing three songs”

Suria Toy Shop instead Suria Toy Store ii. Usage of upper and lower cases

e.g : Rm Pp Yy Kk

Candidates in the Excellent Group(EX=5m)

….Candidates were able to give reasons and justify them.

E.g My cousin is a girl and she loves collecting dolls. Surely, this would be another addition to her collection. She does not have to buy an extra dress for the doll as it comes with an additional dress. Even though it is the most expensive among the three items, I still can afford it since it is within my budget.

….able to state their choice but were unable to write reasons for their choice. They only copied the information given exactly. (word for word).

Mistakes often detected I would choose Jumbo the Dancing Elephant

because it is RM30. I like the elephant. It dances for five minutes. It does not need batteries. It is Kiddy toys.It trumpets when squeezed. It is free animal stickers.

Candidates were able to write a story usingcompound and complex sentencescreatively with hardly any grammatical errors based on the pictures given. They were able to write interestingly to

sustain the interest of the readers because there was a good flow in the story line.

Candidates could add new words, adjectives, adverbs, similes, metaphors and proverbs appropriately.

Candidates could not relate one picture to another. Therefore they could not write the story with a good flow.

They had limited ideas so they wrote very simple sentences by joining the words given. They did not add any clause or extra words to make the story the interesting.

E.g Mrs. Aminah cooked many nasi lemaks to sell. She packed them with the banana leaves.

Need to build strength : in Grammar ( tenses, adjectives, adverbs, punctuations…) Sentence construction (compound and

complex) Need a good reading culture Apply “WH” questions to help writing.

Explain what is the need to obtain an A script or a C script.

Model the writing techniques.Have lots of writing practice.