Estéema:

sean wife:

Hi esteema,


Based on 汪notes, do you remember what broad categories you used to group the oral notes?

Thanks for sharing.

I'm aging & getting more forgetful. Will try to recall

One other grouping I do rmbr was grouping one on CNY celebration with Racial Harmony topics together with neighborliness (there was one title on 一场风波 ).

Road safety, MRT Travel safety, Spending time on computer (I twitch to talk abt hp/games, Seaside picnic (safety swimming at the beach), On the Bus (playing, seatbelts, standing near bus doors etc), Playing in the Playground (near roads) or tie kicking football in parks to hitting neighbor's windows or an elderly than link it to possible elder care & neigborliness, etc

Helping the blind, Helping an injured frd, helping an elderly, Trusting Strangers, 走失的小孩 ...

Honesty, Robbery, Admitting to wrongdoing (in classroom & home).

Special Friend (can introduce them ideas of frds of diff races), A classmate who is fr A Poor family, etc, 珍惜友情 (treasure frdship can be used with a neighbor frd moving away or classmate switching schools), etc. or even group with Childhood Memories (童年趣事).

Do not limit just to 汪 topics, but use it as a start off & learning becomes so much more interesting coz yr child can see they can think beyond what they study coz everything ard them can be topics. That's when u can tell yr child made a breakthrough. S'times my kids gave me more ideas in their experience than I can think of introducing to them

When u use these topics to coach yr kids, u can use 口试 & 作文 Topics and their phrases interchangeably. Just remind yr child to rmbr to start off reply 从入影片我看到 (fr the video clip, I can see...) before describing place, time, ppl, event, etc for 口试; whilst for 作文 they can start off with the 5W 1H.

Don't know if abv sharing clear but hope u ladies can device sth similar to help yr kids, if I've not been clear. You know yr kids well how best to help.

phtthp:

can list down one whole list of English Oral topics, to prepare for PSLE ?

zac's mum:

I don’t know if this will actually be helpful or not, but I just want to share my funny story of how I got A* for my Chinese PSLE many years back.


A bit of background: my mum is Peranakan and therefore cannot speak a word of Mandarin. She sent me to Chinese tuition from young but during those days, oral component was not explicitly taught by the tutor at all. So Oral exam was my weakest component for Chinese. Nobody to practice with.

It turned out that for my batch, the Oral Conversation topic for PSLE was 暴力. And I was truly stumped. Didn’t know what 暴力 meant, but it sounded similar to 暴露, which I knew the traditional Chinese teachers would be strongly against. U know, upright moral values and all...so I just took a risk and blithely blabbered on (while gauging the examiner’s reaction: saw her nodding her head in agreement etc) about a topic I knew absolutely nothing about.

Basically I just gave a strong opinion that Noooooo that’s absolutely not to be encouraged...if it’s shown on tv and movies, it would encourage the kids to copy and follow suit...parents should not permit this bad thing...(kept throwing around the word 暴力 in replacement of 暴露) BUT I think this strategy only works for conservative Chinese teachers - maybe English teachers would welcome more open-minded opinions?? Is the situation still the same today??

Till this day, I’m thanking God for that fluke - I managed to get that A* despite talking a whole load of nonsense lol.

sean wife:

Hi esteema,


Based on 汪notes, do you remember what broad categories you used to group the oral notes?

Thanks for sharing.

kiasumom1:

I think my girl's problem is not that she can't speak. it's more because of anxiety. Any tips on that?