2018 PSLE Discussions & Strategies (Born in 2006)

[lee_yl]

Chinese oral was easy for my girl because she’s a librarian! She said all the 规则 still fresh in her mind!


I do agree the English oral seems tougher (for most) especially if one has never given speeches in the public before. Not sure how are they going to carry on this conversation.

[tree nymph]

ryka:

Problem for my DD also, EL oral speech contest is not a common topic. I think most 12-years old seldom have interests to hear speeches if never involves in speech & drama or debates activities

Mine too. The only speeches they 'hear' are probably from their school Principals.

[laughingcat]

ryka:

Problem for my DD also, EL oral speech contest is not a common topic. I think most 12-years old seldom have interests to hear speeches if never involves in speech & drama or debates activities

Actually not necessarily must be speech contest. Every kids will go through show and tell. They can equate this topic to such experiences.

[zac's mum]

You don’t need to have had experience giving speeches in order to pass or ace this topic lah.


Topic: speech
“Have you taken part in speech contest before?” No I haven’t. I’m a very shy person and I don’t like to speak in front of crowds/I get stage fright.

“Would you choose to give a speech to strangers or to the people you know?” If I had a choice, I would prefer to give a short speech to people I know, for example a short Thank You speech to my family members at my birthday party.That’s because I know my family members will not laugh at me even if I fumble or stutter.

[joy2]

Jade01:

For both english and chinese is much more difficult than ytd. chinese was in library abiding the rules which is a common topic that can be found in any oral practice book.


wonder why moe is so unfair. my boy damn suay.

So in your opinion, which day is more difficult?

[Jade01]

as i mentioned i felt both eng n chinese oral for day 2 is tougher.

for eng, day 1 open house is a common event that most kid would have probably experience. but day 2, speech contest, there is nothing much to elaborate. the child must be quick enough to think of personal experience to say more which how many child have such experiences?

for chinese, library was also one of the test topic in psle 2015 i think. is in the psle booklet. is also about library. moreover, in all the oral practices assessment, library is definitely one of the practice topic. even my p2 practises this topic for his oral. day 1 topic learning from friends is not so straightforward.

[Zappy]

Jade01:

For both english and chinese is much more difficult than ytd. chinese was in library abiding the rules which is a common topic that can be found in any oral practice book.


wonder why moe is so unfair. my boy damn suay.

Your son should have had one \"easier\" topic from yesterday then, right? Since can only have either EL or CL today.

[nicnac]

Jade01:

as i mentioned i felt both eng n chinese oral for day 2 is tougher.

for eng, day 1 open house is a common event that most kid would have probably experience. but day 2, speech contest, there is nothing much to elaborate. the child must be quick enough to think of personal experience to say more which how many child have such experiences?

for chinese, library was also one of the test topic in psle 2015 i think. is in the psle booklet. is also about library. moreover, in all the oral practices assessment, library is definitely one of the practice topic. even my p2 practises this topic for his oral. day 1 topic learning from friends is not so straightforward.

TOP schools typically have their open houses in April/May. All other schools usually have theirs in November, before or after the PSLE results. There is a schedule of open houses 2018 available. So I think we cant assume that most kids already have the experiences of attending open houses. Personally. my kids have never attended any open house, so i can’t say that the EL topic yesterday was something that my dd is familiar with.

[Zappy]

Not sure if it’s the same for everyone, but yesterday’s question was about whether you’d go to that school. Not whether you want to go to the open house.

[nicnac]

ryka:

Problem for my DD also, EL oral speech contest is not a common topic. I think most 12-years old seldom have interests to hear speeches if never involves in speech & drama or debates activities

Mine has never attended an open house. So the topic yesterday was not something that she can relate to.

Those open houses in April/May are usually held by the TOP schools. Unless the kids are all of the RI/HCI/RGS/DHS (mostly IP schools) callibre, the majority of the PSLE kids would not have attended an open house yet. The regular secondary schools typically hold their open houses in November, just before the release of the PSLE results or the weekend after it.