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Special PMR Tips & Tricks Seminar
Paper 2: Section A
Welcome
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What do they want?To see whether you are able to: write the required task use correct & appropriate language
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05 grand National Day Celebration at your school06 a campsite for your family trip07 Johan’s car breakdown experience08 Safety measures in school09 Your experience at an old folks home10 Rahim and a bag of money11 Chose between 2 places for your holiday12 Qualities of a good student
Section A: Guided Writing
Format 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12Report +Inform
al Letter
+
Story + +Speech + +Article +Essay +
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Marking CriteriaBAND EXCELLENT CREDIT ACHIEVEME
NT WEAK VERY WEAK
MARKS 25 - 21 20 - 16 15 - 11 10 - 6 5 - 1Requirem
ents of Task
Fulfilled Largely fulfilled
Sufficiently fulfilled
Partially fulfilled
Hardly fulfilled
IdeasWell-developed
& well-organised with
supporting details
Developed & organised with some supporting
details
Sufficiently developed but lack details; adequately organised
Less developed,
lacks organisation
Disorganised; lacks cohesion
Language
Accurate with few minor
errors & first draft slip
Largely accurate
Sufficiently accurate
Partially accurate Inaccurate
Sentence
Structure
Varied & used
effectivelyMostly varied
Sufficiently varied Lacks variety Distorted
Vocabulary
Wide & aptly used
Wide enough & mostly apt
Sufficient to convey
meaning but lacks precision
Limited Inappropriate
Mechanics of
WritingAccurate Mostly
accurate Some errors Numerous errors
Serious errors
Interest of
ReaderAroused & sustained
Largely aroused & sustained
Sufficiently aroused
Hardly aroused
Meaning hardly
conveyed
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1.Read the question.2.Underline
keywords.3.Notice the format.4.List down all the
connectors, idioms, phrasal verbs, proverbs you can remember.
5.Plan 1 paragraph per picture. 4-5 sentences per paragraph.
6.Plan an introduction & a conclusion.
7.Write.
Steps
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Use correct tenses, sentence structure, spelling, punctuation, prepositions
Organise & write in proper paragraphs
Use correct linkage/connectors Use a wide range of impressive/exact
vocabulary, phrases, idioms Be creative & interesting Write at least a 1 page long essay
How To Score
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1 essay has 3 parts:› Introduction – 1 paragraph› Body – 2-3 paragraph› Conclusion – 1 paragraph
Each paragraph has 3 things:› Main idea› Elaboration› Examples
Write 1 paragraph per picture.
In Your Essay
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YOU MUST: Plan your essay! Use all the words given Write as much as you can! Past/Present Tense Use idioms/phrasal verbs Use connectors Use correct format
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YOU MUST: Study all the Formats Use S V O Use ‘…and so on’ Use ‘There
is/are/was/were…’ Use ‘For example,…’ Use ‘This is because…’
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Subject + Verb + Object I eat apples. He plays football every day. The dog killed the mouse. Chocolate I like. I tomorrow go. Shoot wild boar.
S V O
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as easy as pie green light in the pink of health true colours kill two birds with one stone raining cats and dogs give someone a hand through thick and thin
Idioms
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Do not count your chickens before they hatch
Do not judge a book by its cover Experience is the best teacher Every cloud has a silver lining Prevention is better than cure The early bird catches the worm Where there is a will, there is a way
Proverbs
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calm down count on cut off deal with drop by find out pass away turn down
Phrasal Verbs
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Firstly, Next, Then, Moreover, Furthermore, Besides, However, (Negative) Finally, In conclusion,
Connectors
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Be Careful: No BM! No short forms!
› do not, cannot, I am No ‘I and my friends’.
› My friends and I ‘was studied’ is NOT Past
Tense.› studied
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Be Careful: ‘a rooms’ is wrong.
› rooms ‘many boy’ is wrong.
› many boys ‘And then,’ is wrong!
› Then ‘People’ no ‘-s’.
› Many people› One person
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Know the Difference: no vs know than vs then when vs went their vs there I vs me perfect vs prefect anything vs everything
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Know the Difference: took vs talk life vs live here vs hear smile vs smell find vs fine by vs buy quite vs quiet
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Conclusion & Questions
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The End