2013 PSLE Discussions and Strategy
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after the 1st day, my son had a better feel and ‘more experience’ for the english oral on 2nd day.
how about cold stone creamery? strawberry with banana ??? -
buds:
WOW!!Impressive!!!! Extremely Useful!!Perhaps these analysis should be put up on the front page !!!was searching for this info for a very long time...http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1069860#p1069860
Have some time now to continue from where I left off this morning on the grading.. This next one is on the conversation component of the oral examinations. This is the area that I suppose many parents worry about because our children can be slapped with ANY topic and they have to work it. :scared:
Here's a peek on how marks may be awarded, in case you wanna work the final kinks out today for the next oral exam tomorrow.
CONVERSATION
Between 9-10 marks
* Personal, intelligent responses are given.
* Grammatical structures are accurate.
* Wide range of vocabulary is used.
* Voice is clear.
* Shows confidence.
* Initiative in introducing ideas is shown.
* There is very good interaction.
* Offers sound personal opinions.
Between 7-8 marks
* Adequate personal responses with some development are given.
* Grammatical structures are accurate.
* Satisfactory range of vocabulary is used.
* Voice is clear and some confidence is shown.
* Good interaction.
Between 5-6 marks
* Some personal responses with little development given.
* Grammatical structures are generally accurate.
* Basic use of vocabulary.
* Responses a little unclear at times.
* Interaction is reasonably good.
Between 3-4 marks
* Few personal responses with no development given.
* Grammatical structures are inaccurate and limited.
* Mostly inappropriate range of vocabulary is used.
* A number of hesitations and false starts are made.
* Interaction is present only with prompting.
Between 1-2 marks
* Almost no personal response given.
* Grammatical structures are inaccurate.
* Weak vocabulary.
* A number of long, awkward pauses are made.
* Constant assistance and prompting to engage in conversation is required.
Conversation topics may range from what has been practiced in school to general knowledge and to perhaps current affairs. The past years' topics touched on charity work / volunteer work and there was also one on the transport system and there were questions raised that were in relevance to the MRT collision incident (if i remember correctly). :oops:
We don't subscribe to any newspapers and neither does their school. We have read and heard sharings from friends with children in other schools who do and find that it is good that there are schools that have these initiatives in place. I particularly like The Red Dot but this seems to only be made available to schools that subscribe to the English paper. Am planning to feedback to DD's school to offer that to her school so that it could benefit the students from next year onwards.
KiasuParents seem to be offering real-time sharing of information that we have been benefitting from and so far it has served us well. :please:
I asked DD's grandpa to tear off clippings of the recent haze, of the dengue outbreak, the Tampines tragedy, the boys in the breasfeeding room and I also briefly shared with her about the recent issue with the girls involved in the Hair for Hope event. We ran through the possible questions that may come up... like...
* Do you think it is compulsory to wear a uniform? Explain your answer.
* Have you been involved in any charity or fund-raising event?
* Do you think there are other ways you can contribute or to assist non-profit organisations other than donating money?
* (etc)
DD kept all these notes from our discussion and the clippings of relevant articles (if any). If it may not be of use for now (for the oral exams), she intends to keep them just for general knowledge and for memories of when we did these stuff together. :love: -
janet_lee88:
ummmm...Rum and Raisin???;)after the 1st day, my son had a better feel and 'more experience' for the english oral on 2nd day.
how about cold stone creamery? strawberry with banana ??? -
janet_lee88:
This Saturday is definitely going to be Sun and Sand with Icecream!!!!!mummies with kids in p6...what you need now is double dose of stamina & patience for the next 2 months...after which, you will find yourself so free.
don't think so far just yet...being burnt out is NO fun. think of where you can go for a yummy scoop of ice cream this sat. -
Today mt oral topic is about sport day. Anybody know what is the topic for el oral for today.
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English picture is a classroom setting with kids having baking lesson.
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Think tomorrow’s topics will be non-school related? Shopping mall, restaurant, garden, etc? Since today’s all school related events.
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lesmay:
English picture is a classroom setting with kids having baking lesson.
Wow, my ds told me it is a sandwich making session...here, you mentioned baking lesson. That worries me.... -
There will be 50,000 interpretations of the topic. One for every student that took part in the oral today
And that's good, otherwise we will just have thousands of teachers bored to tears. -
For MT conversation, they are asked to talk abt a special account which they witnessed about a competition. DD went on to talk about her friend running the 100m race and how she and the rest cheered this girl on and she won first prize. Then DD said the 2 teachers glanced and each other and smiled. Later after the oral, she went to the holding area and found out that the rest also had the same happy conclusion that the person in the conversation won first prize. That’s probably why the teachers glanced at each other.
Just wondering:
1) Her account was nothing out of the ordinary - but they ask ‘te pie’. She dont know if she’s out of point.
2) Second, if all the others give similar happy endings, will her marks be affected?
I know MT oral is over and we should not talk over it but tmr Eng Oral is not over yet. In case same situation happens, then better tell her to think of alternative stories for conversation.
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