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TIPS ON HOW TO ANSWER

PAPER 1

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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ARTICLES



Articles

• A and an ~ means

one• ~ used with countable

nouns

• ~ used to talk about

just one member inthat group

• a ~ used for singular

nouns begin with a

consonant sound

• a lion a boat

• an ~ used for singular

nouns that begin witha vowel sound (a, e, i,

o, u)

• an owl an arrow

a, an, the



Articles

• The ~ used to refer to only one such thing

• ~ used to talk about people and things that

have already been mentioned earlier • E.g.

I have a watch. The watch is veryexpensive.

the Chairman the sun

the biggest the Pan Pacific Hotel



Exercise on Articles (a, an)

• _____ inch ____ example

• _____ train ____ igloo

• _____island ____ opening

• _____European ____eaglet

• _____ entrance ____ bridge

• _____ uncle ____ unit

• _____ butterfly ____ youth

• _____ ass ____onion

• _____ umbrella ____ coat

• _____ union ____ handle



Exercise on Articles (a, an)

• ____ house ____ honour

• ____ honest boy ____ queen

• ____ expert ____ Eurasian

• ____ avenue ____ sandwich• ____ beauty ____ earthquake

• ____ aunt ____ expression

• ____ helmet ____ hotel• ____ exit ____ authority

• ____ case ____ pencil

• ____ flat ____ arch



Put a or an• ______ old woman ______ straight line

• ______ wild animal ______ sunny day

• ______ unique story ______ interesting story

• ______ dirty drain ______ bottle of syrup

• ______ anxious man ______ innocent girl

• ______ pair of scissors ______ excellent result

• ______ expensive dress ______ enthusiastic person• ______ useful thing ______ untidy work

• ______ brave boy ______ honourable work

• ______ true story ______ stylish person

• ______ ample time ______ tamed dog

• ______ organised class ______ usual incident• ______ selfish man ______ important meeting

• ______ easy sum ______ expensive ring

• ______ unique person ______ useful instrument



Singular & Plural Nouns

• Singular noun ~

shows one person,

place or thingE.g.

– A house

– A child

– A bee

• Plural noun ~ shows

more than one or

many people, placesor things

• E.g.

– Two houses

– Four children

– Three bees



NOUNS



Notes:

1. adding ‘s’

eraser – erasers vase - vases

house – houses tree - trees

day – days umbrella - umbrellas

key – keys photo – photos

2. adding ‘es’

box – boxes fox - foxes

torch – torches brush – brushes

glass – glasses

potato – potatoes tomato - tomatoes



Notes:

3. Changing ‘y’ to ‘ies’ baby – babies ferry - ferries

lorry – lorries cherry - cherries

dairy – dairies story – stories

4. Changing ‘f’ or ‘fe’ to ‘ves’

calf – calves shelf - shelves

knife – knives wife - wives

leaf – leaves loaf – loaves



Notes:

5. Changing the vowels for irregular nouns

tooth – teeth louse - lice

foot – feet mouse - mice

goose – geese woman – women

6. Irregular plurals

child – children ox – oxencactus – cacti



Notes:

• Some singular and plural nouns have the

same form

• E.g.one sheep – many sheep

one deer – many deer

one fish – many fish



PRONOUNS



Personal Pronouns

Nouns Pronouns(as subject)

Pronouns(as object)

- I me

Maria She Her

Azhan He Him

- You You

The cat

(The chair)

It It



Personal Pronouns

Nouns Pronouns

(as subject)

Pronouns

(as object)

Maria and

Azhan

They Them

The boys/ girls They Them

The trees/the cats

They Them

Maria and I We us



Pronouns

Possessivesadjective

Possessivepronoun

Reflexivepronoun

My Mine MyselfHis His Himself

her Hers Herself

Its - itself



Pronouns

Possessivesadjective

Possessivepronoun

Reflexivepronoun

Your Yours Yourselves

Our ours Ourselves

Their Theirs themselves



Demonstrative Pronouns

Demonstrativepronoun

Number What it points to

This Singular A person or things that is

near us

These Plural Two or more people or

things that are near us

That Singular A person or thing that isfar away

Those Plural Two or more people or

things that are far away



Prepositions

Preposition are used toshow position, direction,

time, etc.

Untuk menunjukkan

kedudukan, arah, masa danIain-lain.

Prepositions of place or

position, (tempat @

kedudukan)(in, on, at, under, above,

against, beside,

behind,between).

ExamplesHe put the mouse in a box.

Eddie is standing on the

table.

Someone is at the door.Bobby hid under the table.

He held the paper above his

head.

Lina leaned against thewall.

Joe sat beside Joo Lee.

He was trapped between

two pillars.



Prepositions

Prepositions of Direction~(Arah)

(to, over, from, along,

across, around, up,

down.)

The driver turned to the left.Gino jumped over the fence.

They arrived from Pahang

yesterday.

I saw him walking along Jalan Lima.

The dog ran across the

road.

She became dizzy runningaround the tree.

They keep running up and

down the stairs.



Prepositions

Prepositions of time ~(masa)

(in, on, at, for, during,

since, after, before).

Ben died in 1980.Jeff was ill on Monday.

The bus will leave at 8 p.m.

I stayed in Ipoh for two days.

Rina visited us during theholidays.

I have not seen Ravi sinceSunday.

They went home afterdinner.

She brushed her teeth

before going to bed.



Preposition also used with

certain * verbs (perbuatan)

• agree to/with

• apply to/for • ask for/about

• complain about

• think about/of

• believe in

• borrow from• compare with/to

• hope for



Preposition also used with

certain * adjectives (adjektif)

• angry with

• ashamed of • aware of

• interested in

• safe from

• sorry for • scared of

• tired of

• used to



The Simple Present Tense



CLUE

• Every day

• Every week

• Every month• Every year

• Every night

• Every evening

• Every morning

• Daily

• Weekly

• Monthly• Yearly

• Annually

• Fortnightly



CLUE

Always

Usually

Often

Sometimes

NormallyNever



A) Singular subject

He

She

It

My brother

Sarah

Alif’s sister The cat

The woman

Verb ~ s

plays

reads

walks

goes

doeshas

is



B) Plural subject

I

You

WeThey

Janet and Jennifer

My friends

The children

The durians

Verb no ~ s

plan

studyarrange

hold

do

have

are



D) In question~ verb in root word

e.g. Does she ______ to the school by

bicycle every day? A go

B goes

C wentD going



E) Instruction/ order/ warning

~ usually in simple present tense

e.g. Switch on the fan.

Please keep quiet.



Example 1

The ferry ____________Lumut jetty

every 40 minutes.

A . leftB . leave

C . leaves

D . leaving



The prefects usually _________at the

school hall.

A . met B . meet

C . meets

D . meeting

Example 2



Example 3

My classmates and I _________ in the park

every evening.

A . cycle B . cycles

C . cycled

D . cycling



2. The Simple Past Tense



Clue:

• Yesterday

• Just now

• Ago

• Last week

• Last month

• Last year

• Last Monday morning

• This morning

• A few days ago

• A few minutes ago

• A moment ago

• Two weeks ago

• Recently

• Those days



Rules of Simple past tense

• Regular verbs – the verbs end in ‘d’ or ‘ed’.

• Example: talk – talked

jump – jumped• Irregular verbs – the verbs change form

• Example: go - went

buy - boughtcatch - caught



Rules of Simple Past Tense

• Did is the past tense of do / does

• After the word ‘did’ the verb must

be in root word.



Example 1

• Did you _____ a letter to the headmaster?

A. write

B. writesC. wrote

D. writing



Example 2

• Did you ______ the window before you go

out?

A. closing

B. closed

C. closes

D. close



Example 3

• He ______ answering the test question in

just 30 minutes.

A. finishing

B. finished

C. finishes

D. finish



Example 4

• Amira _____ a letter from her pen pal

yesterday.

A. receive

B. receives

C. received

D. receiving



Example 5

• After the rain, the sun ______ brightly in

the sky.

A shine

B shone

C shines

D to shine



The Continuous Tense

A The Present Continuous Tense

B The Past Continuous Tense



Clue:

• Verb + ing

• Examples:

swimmingreading

teaching

writing

enjoying

• Present Tense

am, is, are

now

at this moment

• Past Tense

was, were

while, when, as



Singular subject

• I

Present

am

Past

was

Verb + ing

reading

drawing

walking

doing

buying

Si l bj t



Singular subject

• He

• She

• It• Munir

• Sarah

• The girl• The boy

Present

is

Past

was

Verb+ing

reading

drawingwalking

sweeping

buyingsleeping

Plural subject



Plural subject

• You

• We

• They

• The children

• The lions

Present

are

Past

were

Verb+ing

reading

drawingwalking

sweeping

sleeping



Example 1

• I ________ in the pool now.

A. were swimming

B. was swimming

C. are swimming

D. am swimming



Example 2

• En Roslan ______ in the class now.

A is teaching

B am teaching

C was teaching

D were teaching



Example 3

• The boys ______ some coffee in the

kitchen.

A is drinking

B are drinking

C was drinking

D were drinking



Example 4

• Shahril ______ his clothes when the light

went out.

A am ironing

B are ironing

C was ironing

D were ironing



Example 5

• The teacher met his pupils as they

______ in the park.

A were jogging

B was jogging

C are jogging

D is jogging



The Simple Future Tense



Clue:

• tomorrow

• afterwards

• next week

• tonight

• later

• soon

• shall

• will

• going to

After will, shall,

going to – root words.



Clue

• I

• We

• shall walk

• shall finish

• shall attend

• will go

• will buy• will choose



Clue

• will go

• will do

• will swim

He

She

It

You

They



Example 1

• We _____the bathroom tomorrow.

A clean

B cleaning

C shall clean

D shall cleaned



Example 2

• The teacher _______ result next week.

A announce

B announced

C shall announce

D will announce



Subject Verb Agreement



Singular subject + singular verb

• He

• She

• It

• My brother

• Sarah

• The cat

is

has

does

sleeps

was




• He/ she/ it

• Farah/ Azmir/ the cow

• One boy

• A girl

• A man

• My uncle

• His aunt• The baby

– is

– was

– has/ had

– writes

– goes

– does/ did

– works – likes

Si l bj t i l b




• Everyone• Every boy

• Everybody

• Someone• Somebody

• Each + noun

• Every + noun

is

has

does

collects

was




• Each pupils• Each of the girls

• Each of the boys

• One of the girls

• Any of the boys

• Anyone who

• Anybody

• Some one who

• Nobody

• No one

• Not one of them

hasgoes

does

cycles

knows

lives

thinks

runs

plays

sings

reads



Uncountable nouns take a singular verb

• hair, grass,

rice, powder,

juice, syrup,

flour, sugar oil, soup,

salt, pepper

money, water sand,

• Singular verb-to-be is

was



Plural subject + plural verb

• You

• We

• They

• Lizzie and Chris• The women

• Many people

• Both of the girls

• Some of the pupils

• Most of the children

• My mother and I

• She and her friend

are

were

have do

knock

jump



Either and neither take a singular verb

• Either of the girls

• Neither of the boys

• Either this man or that

man• Neither Maria nor

Azlina

• Neither you nor he

is

was

has

does

runs

sings

sleeps



Example 1

• David ______ his seat with Kok Leong.

A changes

B changed

C changing

D is changing



Example 2

• Each state in Malaysia _____ its own

culture.

A isB has

C does

D have



Example 3

• One of these children _____ to leaveearly.

A has

B have

C having



Adjectives

Clue:• ………. as brave as a lion.

• ………. happier than ………

• ………. faster than ………..

• …… more expensive than my house.

• The largest …………

• The strongest …………

• The most beautiful ………



Adverbs 1

Verb AdverbRain Heavily

Sing Sweetly, loudly, softly,

Answer Correctly, politely, rudelyDance Gracefully, beautifully,

Sleep Soundly, lightly,

Shine BrightlySpeak Softly, politely, loudly,

boastfully



Adverbs 2

Verb Adverb

Drive Carefully, carelessly, slowly,

recklessly, dangerously, cautiously

Fight Bravely

Arrive Safely

Shout Angrily, loudly, joyfully,

Explain clearly

Greet Politely, cheerfully,

Clap Loudly, excitedly, happily



Adverbs 3

Verb Adverb

Eat Greedily, hungrily, slowly,

Listen Carefully, attentively, intently

Walk Slowly, clumsily, fast

Laugh Loudly, heartily, happily

Smile Sweetly, shyly,

Read Carefully, silently,



Infinitive

• After the word to the

verb must be in

root word (kata dasar).



Example 1

• Ahmad was so afraid that he

ran to ____ from the bully.

A hidden

B hiding

C hides

D hide



Example 2

• The pupils forgot to ______ off the

fan when the went out from the

class.

A switch

B switches

D switching

M d l



Modals

Will Would

Shall Should

Can Could

May Might

must Ought to



Clue

After modals the verb must

be in rootword.

E l



Example

• We _____ obey the school rules at alltime.

A might

B must

C may

D can

E l 2



Example 2

• You should ____ enough sleep every

day.

A gets

B got

C get

C t bl



Countable

many

severala few

some

a lot of

banyak

beberapasedikit

sebahagian

sangat banyak

apple, bag, pencil,

cup, tiger rose, ruler,

buffalo, day, letter,

shirt, hour, minute,

etc.

many, several, a few,

a lot of some.

Examples:

There are many boys

at the bus stop. Amir met a few

friends.

U t bl



Uncountable

much

a little

a lot of

some

banyak

sedikit

sangat banyak

sebahagian

oil, water, perfume, air,sugar salt, smoke, coffee,

tea, rice grass, juice, etc.

much, a little, a lot of,

some.

Examples:

Don't put too much sugar

in my coffee.

Add a little salt to thesoup.

A lot of dust has

gathered on the desk

Q ti d



Question words

What ~ (apa)

To ask about people,

animals, things

What is your name?

What did you do to my car?

When ~ (bila)

To as about time

When is the train arriving?

When did you go to Singapore?

Why ~ (kenapa)

To ask about reason

Why did the man shout at you?

Why is the baby crying?

Where ~ (dimana)

To ask about places.

Where is the museum? Where

do you live?

Q ti d



Question words

How (bagaimana/berapa)To ask about people,

events and the way things

are done.

How old are you?How did the accident happen?

Whose ~ (siapa punya)To ask about belongings.

Whose bag is on the floor?Whose children are they?

Which (yang mana satu)

To ask about people,

animals, and things.

Which girl won the first prize?

Which dog chased you?

Who ~ (siapa)

To ask about people

Who is that lady?

Who did you talk to?

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