Q&A - PSLE English

[ridcully]

Verysuperkiasu:

BTW - 'google' I meant the search engine?

I know. I was joking with the moral: Don't rely on Google!


Stay cheerful. I'm sure your son won't do too badly.

:salute:

[Verysuperkiasu]

ridcully:

Verysuperkiasu:

BTW - 'google' I meant the search engine?

I know. I was joking with the moral: Don't rely on Google!


Stay cheerful. I'm sure your son won't do too badly.

:salute:

Oh.... no wonder... i'm sure everyone's heard of google!

I hope so too (that my son won't do too badly)

[Mdm Koh]

Google is useful for getting answers quickly. You just have to make sure that you check the sites which are more credible, for example, websites with \"edu\" in the URLs. These are school or university websites, so the information is more likely to be accurate.

[Verysuperkiasu]

Mdm Koh:

Google is useful for getting answers quickly. You just have to make sure that you check the sites which are more credible, for example, websites with \"edu\" in the URLs. These are school or university websites, so the information is more likely to be accurate.

Yes, u r right.

[Verysuperkiasu]

I came across a sentence in a vocab cloze passage.


'I hastened to assist my uncle....'
supposed to replace the word 'hastened' with one of the following;

urge, quicken, attempted, moved

Most of the students would choose 'quicken', as the two words have the same meaning. But if u were to replace the word, it can't really fit as 'quicken' is a transitive verb means it needs to be followed by an object, such as quicken your footsteps, quicken your pace, etc. But in the above sentence, after the word is 'to assist' which is not an object.

Can someone pls enlighten me???

[Mdm Koh]

Verysuperkiasu:

I came across a sentence in a vocab cloze passage.


'I hastened to assist my uncle....'
supposed to replace the word 'hastened' with one of the following;

urge, quicken, attempted, moved

Most of the students would choose 'quicken', as the two words have the same meaning. But if u were to replace the word, it can't really fit as 'quicken' is a transitive verb means it needs to be followed by an object, such as quicken your footsteps, quicken your pace, etc. But in the above sentence, after the word is 'to assist' which is not an object.

Can someone pls enlighten me???

\"Moved\" seems to be the best fit, because to hasten means to move fast.

[Verysuperkiasu]

Mdm Koh:

Verysuperkiasu:

I came across a sentence in a vocab cloze passage.


'I hastened to assist my uncle....'
supposed to replace the word 'hastened' with one of the following;

urge, quicken, attempted, moved

Most of the students would choose 'quicken', as the two words have the same meaning. But if u were to replace the word, it can't really fit as 'quicken' is a transitive verb means it needs to be followed by an object, such as quicken your footsteps, quicken your pace, etc. But in the above sentence, after the word is 'to assist' which is not an object.

Can someone pls enlighten me???

\"Moved\" seems to be the best fit, because to hasten means to move fast.

My initial answer was quickened actually, but on 2nd thought, it makes more sense to put 'moved' although i feel they should include a more obvious choice like 'hurried' in the choices.

[ridcully]

pixiedust:

chrisuformal letter - yes, it is in the syllabus. My P5 just did in school. Teacher wants them to specify sender's address only, not optional but no recipient address. Originally, I told him to write both sender and recipient addresses but in the end we followed the school's format.


R, if you do send the queries and get any reply, share with us here. Thanks in advance !

Hi pixiedust / chrisu

I have an official reply from MOE/SEAB. SEAB says that there is no one specific format for letters and refers me back to the head of the English Department of my child's primary school for further information.

Now we know why different schools can give different advice and are all seemingly correct...

[pixiedust]

Thanks for the update, R !

[chrisu]

Thank you riduclly for writing to MOE/SEAB.


The reply from them seems disappointing. It seem to suggest that letter writing will not be coming out in PSLE exam unofficially. With limited writing space, think will tell my daughter to start from Dear xxx, onwards if letter writing will to come out as told by her English teacher.

Thanks once again.

Cheers.

ridcully:

pixiedust:

chrisuformal letter - yes, it is in the syllabus. My P5 just did in school. Teacher wants them to specify sender's address only, not optional but no recipient address. Originally, I told him to write both sender and recipient addresses but in the end we followed the school's format.

R, if you do send the queries and get any reply, share with us here. Thanks in advance !

Hi pixiedust / chrisu

I have an official reply from MOE/SEAB. SEAB says that there is no one specific format for letters and refers me back to the head of the English Department of my child's primary school for further information.

Now we know why different schools can give different advice and are all seemingly correct...