oral exams

[Joy]

mathsparks:

My son goes to Han lang in toa payoh for oral/listening tuition.


For chinese oral podcast, see http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2418

Hi

Thanks, I try to download, but cannot hear the voice even I have a speaker with it...not sure what has gone wrong.thanks

[mathsparks]

Maybe yr speakers not on? I’ve no problem opening the files on PC but for downloading, I use my mobile.

[Joy]

mathsparks:

Maybe yr speakers not on? I've no problem opening the files on PC but for downloading, I use my mobile.

thanks,I tried again, can now but only able to download latest topic.

Do you have any idea is there any change in the chinese oral format?thanks

[mathsparks]

Joy:

mathsparks:

Maybe yr speakers not on? I've no problem opening the files on PC but for downloading, I use my mobile.

thanks,I tried again, can now but only able to download latest topic.

Do you have any idea is there any change in the chinese oral format?thanks

No sure of format change.If you use your mobile phone to download, you can get the past yr podcast from 2006 till current.

[MoonFlower]

yes, my ds is also P4 there is a change in the chin oral. I understand from school that the reading part is very important, the marks weightage is high. Also for conversation (not sure for eng or chin) as i know is the children need to give his/her view on the things and able to have a conversation with the examiner. I always tell my ds oral must score as high as possible. His English oral is not an issue as he did his UK LAMDA exam.

[KingRascal]

My son’s classmate’s tuition teacher mentioned that MOE is allowing some form of autonomy to schools, to decide their chinese language format. To what extent it would be different, we would not know as it’s school-dependent. Example, many schools introduced Show-and-Tell, coupled with the conventional listening comprehension…


My son’s school did that…and that made the book on oral preparation which I bought from Popular useless!

We need to know what format our children’s schools are adopting.

[MoonFlower]

I’m not sure on this issue but what I shared is told by ds’s principal for PSLE. I think for show and tell session is more for the lower pri 1 &2 under the Stellar programme as they wanted the children to able to speak up and communicate well. It’s a foundation to oral skill for future in like public speaking. I do notice our children are good in academic but when comes to speech, they are not confident and not comfortable especially infront of many people. that’s the reason why even secondary teens are doing spoken eng or public speaking course.

[sleepy]

MoonFlower:

His English oral is not an issue as he did his UK LAMDA exam.

Hi

Where did he go for his speech & drama lesson (to prepare for LAMDA exam) ?

[mathsparks]

Mine did the UK Lamda exams thru periwinkle…an external party engaged by son’s school. He stopped after P3 though.