Sunday, October 4, 2009
WRITE IT RIGHT 2009-USAGE
Thursday, October 1, 2009
SPM Literature In English (SPM 2008-2010)
Due to popular request, I have decided to dedicate a post to Literature in English (SPM 2008-2010). Please note that the previous Literature posts were only applicable for 2005, 2006 and 2007 candidates. You may of course, view them for comparison purposes and such.
FORMAT PENTAKSIRAN KESUSASTERAAN DALAM BAHASA INGGERIS SPM 2008/2009/2010
Snow
Literature in English
Marking Scheme/ Guideline
2008-2010
KESUSASTERAAN DALAM BAHASA INGGERIS
SENARAI KARYA BAGI PEPERIKSAAN SPM TAHUN 2008, 2009, DAN 2010
Novel
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fasting, Feasting (Anita Desai)
Holes (Louis Sachar)
Drama
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
The Lion and the Jewel (Wole Soyinka)
An Inspector Calls (J.B. Priestly)
Short Story
Naukar (Anya Sitaram)
Cinderella Girl (Vivien Alcoc)
The Landlady (Roald Dahl)
A Common Story (Kassim Ahmad)
Neighbours (Robert Raymer)
Harrison Bergeren (Kurt Vonnegut Jr. )
Poetry
Theme: Relationships
Tonight I Can Write (Pablo Neruda)
Ways of Love (Chung Yee Chong)
A Prayer for My Daughter (Yeats)
The Way Things Are (Roger McGough)
For My Old Amah (Wong Phui Nam)
How Do I Love Thee? (Elizabeth Barret Browning)
Theme: Perceptions of Self
Birches (Robert Frost)
I Am (John Clare)
This Is A Photograph of Me (Margaret Atwood)
Waiting to Go On (Hugo Williams)
Daring Tears (Craig Romkema)
The Traveller (Muhammad hj Salleh)
Theme: Conflicts
Dulce et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owe)
The Man He Killed (Thomas Hardy)
Death of A Rainforest (Cecil Rajendra)
The War Against Trees (Stanley Kunitz)
A Quarrel Between Day and Night (Omar Mohd Noor)
"Crabbed age and youth cannot live together "(Shakespeare)
Examination Format
The candidate is asked to choose one question from each component.
Section A:
There are 6 texts to be studied. Only 4 short stories will be selected for testing each year. Each short story will be tested individually. The candidate is required to answer ONE out of the four questions.
Section B:
There are 3 texts to be studied. All 3 novels will be selected for testing each year. Each novel will be tested individually. The candidate is required to answer ONE out of the three questions.
Section C:
There are 3 texts to be studied. All 3 plays will be selected for testing each year. Each play will be tested individually. The candidate is required to answer ONE out of the three questions.
Section D:
There are 3 themes to be studied. All 3 themes will be selected for testing each year. Each theme will be tested individually. The candidate is required to answer ONE out of the three questions.
Extra Answers
- Candidates are allowed to answer two or more questions from each component.
- The examiner will chose the highest marks that the candidate has attained for ONE question.
- A single question comprises of three sub-questions. They are to be considered as a whole and not to be counted as separated questions.
- No extra marks will be given for any additional answers.
- No extra marks will be awarded beyond the maximum marks cited.Illogical/irrelevant information may be ignored by the examiner.
Section A: Short Stories [25 marks]
I. Text Comprehension. (Maximum of 5 marks)
- First point given.
- Appropriate supporting information given.
- Second point given.
- Appropriate supporting information given.
- Third point given.
- Appropriate supporting information given.
- Overall understanding.
- Language. (None of the common mistakes as stated.)
II. Plot Expansion. (Maximum of 8 marks)
- Basic description correctly given based on the short story.
- First point given.
- Appropriate supporting information given.
- Second point given.
- Appropriate supporting information given.
- Third point given.
- Appropriate supporting information given.
- Fourth point given.
- Appropriate supporting information given.
- Overall contribution of stated event/incident/occurrence/etc to the plot.
- Writing techniques used by author given.
- Language. (None of the common mistakes as stated.)
III. Evaluation and Understanding with Reference to the Text. (Maximum of 12 marks)
- First point given based on story.
- Appropriate supporting information given.
- Second point given based on story.
- Appropriate supporting information given.
- Third point given based on story.
- Appropriate supporting information given.
- Fourth point given based on personal ideas.
- Appropriate supporting information with reference to the text.
- Fifth point given based on personal ideas.
- Appropriate supporting information with reference to the text.
- Sixth point given based on personal ideas.
- Appropriate supporting information with reference to the text.
- Overall understanding.
- Language. (None of the common mistakes as stated.)
Section B: Novel, Section C: Drama, and Section D: Poetry are all worth 25 marks each. The guidelines for answering is the more or less the same as Section A.
All the best.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
quotes...use these for your essays..
| A | "After all is said and done, more is said than done." | Aesop |
| "When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. | Gracie Allen | |
| "I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." | Woody Allen | |
| "The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do." | Anonymous | |
| "A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." | Anonymous | |
| "Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." | Anonymous | |
| "Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior work." | Anonymous | |
| "Wit is educated insolence." | Aristotle | |
| "Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." | Aristotle | |
| "One swallow does not make the spring." | Aristotle | |
| "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." | Aristotle | |
| "We are what we repeatedly do." | Aristotle | |
| "There is safety in numbers." | Anonymous | |
| "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." | Sir Francis Bacon | |
| | "Knowledge is power." | Sir Francis Bacon |
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| "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." | Honore de Balzac |
| | "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. " | Orlando A. Battista |
| | "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. | Alexander Graham Bell |
| | "Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory." | Ingrid Bergman |
| | "Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others." | Otto von Bismarck |
| "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." | Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." | Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." | Jacques Bossuet | |
| "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." | Miguel de Cervantes | |
| | "There are people who have money and people who are rich." | Coco Chanel |
| | "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." | G. K. Chesterton |
| | "The price of greatness is responsibility." | Winston Churchill |
| "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." | Winston Churchill | |
| "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." | Winston Churchill | |
| "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." | Winston Churchill | |
| "If you are going through hell, keep going." | Winston Churchill | |
| "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. | Cicero | |
| "Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors." | E.M. Cioran | |
| "I believe in luck; how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" | Jean Cocteau | |
| "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." | Conficius | |
| "Respect yourself and others will respect you." | Conficius | |
| "Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood." | Marie Curie | |
| "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." | Salvador Dali | |
| | "Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it." | Salvador Dali |
| | "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." | Charles Darwin |
| | "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." | Marlene Dietrich |
| | "Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours." | Benjamin Disraeli |
| "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to him his own." | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| "Little things affect little minds." | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| "Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. | Alexandre Dumas | |
| "All for one and one for all." | Alexandre Dumas | |
| "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." | Thomas Edison | |
| "Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." | Albert Einstein | |
| "When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." | Albert Einstein | |
| "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." | Albert Einstein | |
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." | Albert Einstein | |
| "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." | Albert Einstein | |
| "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." | Albert Einstein | |
| "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." | Albert Einstein | |
| "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." | Albert Einstein | |
| "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." | Albert Einstein | |
| "In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side." | Euripides | |
| "Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife." | Euripides | |
| "A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth, and that is why we call what he writes fiction." | William Faulkner | |
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| "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." | Henry Ford |
| | "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." | Henry Ford |
| | "The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy." | Malcolm Forbes |
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| "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan but also believe." | Anatole France |
| "Most fools think they are only ignorant." | Benjamin Franklin | |
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| "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." | Anna Freud |
| | "Men are more moral than they think, and far more immoral than they can imagine." | Sigmund Freud |
| "We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves." | Galileo Galilei | |
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| "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." | Mahatma Gandhi |
| "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| "Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever. | Mahatma Gandhi | |
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| "Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence" | Charles de Gaulle |
| "Graveyards are full of indispensable men." | Charles de Gaulle | |
| "Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children." | J. Paul Getty | |
| "If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man." | J. Paul Getty | |
| "All the world over I will back the masses against the classes." | William Gladstone | |
| "Enjoy when you can and endure when you must." | Johann Wolfgang van Goethe | |
| "Whatever you can do or dream, begin it." | Johann Wolfgang van Goethe | |
| "A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days." | Johann Wolfgang van Goethe | |
| "Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life." | Johann Wolfgang van Goethe | |
| "Never confuse movement with action." | Ernest Hemmingway | |
| | "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." | Alfred Hitchcock |
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| "Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age." | Victor Hugo |
| | "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." | Victor Hugo |
| | "Maybe this world is another planet's hell." | Aldous Huxley |
| In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." | Thomas Jefferson | |
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| "Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." | Samuel Johnson |
| "When making your choices in life, do not forget to live." | Samuel Johnson | |
| "Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." | Samuel Johnson | |
| "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." | Immanuel Kant | |
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| "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." | John F. Kennedy |
| "When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other represents opportunity." | John F. Kennedy | |
| "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." | John F. Kennedy | |
| "Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. | John F. Kennedy | |
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| "Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent." | John Maynard Keynes |
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| "In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends." | Martin Luther King |
| | "Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves." | Rudyard Kipling |
| | "Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade." | Rudyard Kipling |
| | "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously." | Henry Kissinger |
| "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault." | Henry Kissinger | |
| "Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans." | John Lennon | |
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| "In the end it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years." | Abraham Lincoln |
| | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." | Abraham Lincoln |
| | "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." | Abraham Lincoln |
| | "You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." | Abraham Lincoln |
| "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| | "People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." | W. Somerset Maugham |
| | "It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late." | W. Somerset Maugham |
| | "To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship." | Thomas Moore |
| "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." | Isaac Newton | |
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| "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time." | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| | "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger." | Friedrich Nietzche |
| "When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets." | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| "We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are." | Anais Nin | |
| "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." | Anais Nin | |
| "Burdens become light when cheerfully borne." | Ovid | |
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| "The chief enemy of creativity is good taste." | Pablo Picasso | |
| | "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." | Plutarch |
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| "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." | Alexander Pope |
| | "You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing." | Michael Pritchard |
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| "The voyage to discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." | Marcel Proust |
| "If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror." | Francois Rabelais | |
| | "A statesman is a successful politician who is dead." | Thomas Brackett Reed |
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| "Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life." | F.W. Robertson |
| | "Many people despise wealth but few know how to give it away." | F. de la Rochefoucauld |
| | "Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice." | F. de la Rochefoucauld |
| | "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| | "The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything." | Theodore Roosevelt |
| | "If it can't be cured, it must be endured." | Salman Rushdie. |
| | "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." | John Ruskin |
| "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." | Antoine de Saint Exupery | |
| | "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." | Antoine deSaint Exupery |
| "Hell is other people." | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| "It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create." | John Saxe | |
| "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." | Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |
| "Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts." | Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |
| "Action is eloquence." | William Shakespeare | |
| "All that glitters is not gold." | William Shakespeare | |
| "Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language." | George Bernard Shaw | |
| "The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty." | George Bernard Shaw | |
| "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children!" | George Bernard Shaw | |
| "Martyrdom ... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." | George Bernard Shaw | |
| "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." | George Bernard Shaw | |
| "Reasonable men adapt to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men." | George Bernard Shaw | |
| "Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing?" | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | |
| "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!" | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| "Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary." | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." | Jonathan Swift | |
| "I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a lion, than an army of a hundred lions led by a sheep." | Talleyrand | |
| | "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| "A good laugh is sunshine in a house." | William Thackery | |
| "Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another." | Leo Tolstoy | |
| "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." | Mark Twain | |
| "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." | Mark Twain | |
| "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." | Mark Twain | |
| "The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure." | Unknown | |
| "The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack." | Unknown | |
| "Many receive advice; only the wise profit from it." | Unknown | |
| | "Remember, no one can make you feel inferior, without your consent." | Unknown |
| "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." | Unknown | |
| "Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple." | Unknown | |
| "The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one does." | Unknown | |
| "Only those who keep trying eventually win." | Unknown | |
| "Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement." | Unknown | |
| "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." | Unknown | |
| "The best time to do something worthwhile is between yesterday and tomorrow." | Unknown | |
| "Conscience is a man's compass." | Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | "The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error." | Voltaire |
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| "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken in sung." | Voltaire |
| "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." | Voltaire | |
| "The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks." | Voltaire | |
| "Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one." | Voltaire | |
| "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." | Voltaire | |
| "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." | Oscar Wilde | |
| "Some cause happiness wherever they go; other whenever they go. | Oscar Wilde | |
| "Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes." | Oscar Wilde | |
| "Wisdom is knowing how little we know." | Oscar Wilde | |
| "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all." | Oscar Wilde | |
| "The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything." | Oscar Wilde | |
| "No man is rich enough to buy back his past." | Oscar Wilde | |
| "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." | Oscar Wilde | |
| "All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness." | Tennessee Williams | |
| "Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire." | William Butler Yeats | |
| "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." | Emile Zol |
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
SPM TRIAL QUESTION FOR SBP AND OTHER STATE..
http://www.scribd.com/doc/5083792/SPM-Percubaan-2008-SBP-English-Language-Paper-2
THERE'S QUESTION AND ANSWERS...I HOPE IT HELP..
Thursday, June 4, 2009
WRITE IT RIGHT 2009
1.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The State Education Office, Perak Darul Ridzuan would like to thank the following for their contribution in the production of the module for writing – ZOOM IN AND WRITE.
1.1 State Programme Coordinators
Tn. Hj Mohd Yasin bin Mohamod
State Education Language Officer
En Mohd Salleh b. Mohd Arshad
Curriculum Supervisor for English
Pejabat Pelajaran Negeri Perak
1.2 Module Panelists
1. PN. Hjh Nuri Mina bt Mahalil
SMK Tun Saban
33100 Pengkalan Hulu
2. En Aimran b Mohamed Yasin Aini
SMK Pangkor
32300 Pulau Pangkor
3. Pn Norzidah bt Bakri
SMK Dato Abd Rahman Yaakob,
32600 Bota
4. En. Michael a/l Gregory
SMK Seri Iskandar
32600 Bota
5. En. Ignatius Ben a/l Stepen Julianose
SMK Sultan Yussof,
31000 Batu Gajah.
6. En Nicholas Nathan
SMK Yuk Kwan,
31000 Batu Gajah
7. Pn Monica Yeo
SMK St. George
34000 Taiping
8. Cik Ling Peck Leng
SMK Seri Manjung
32040 seri Manjung
9. Pn Theresa Wong
SMK Nan Hwa
32000 Setiawan.
2.0 INTRODUCTION
ZOOM IN AND WRITE
2.1 Rationale:
1. The students’ achievement in the English Language paper affects
the overall performance of a school, district and state.
2. Writing is identified as the main cause for low achievement
3. Insufficient relevant materials on writing that are tailored to cater to
the needs of students who are sitting for the SPM examination.
4. Students are not adequately exposed to the latest tips and
relevant techniques in answering English Language 1119 Paper 1.
2.2 Objectives:
1. To increase the percentage of passes in English Language 1119 Paper in the State of Perak.
2. To motivate and enhance students’ confidence in writing.
3. To assist teachers and students to zoom in (focus) on important
aspects of writing for SPM examination.
4. To provide teachers with tips and techniques needed for
students to acquire the skills in writing.
5. To help teachers with suitable materials to be used by students in their writing lessons.
6. To assess students‘ competency in writing for examination purpose.
2.3 Organisation of the module
This module has been designed to facilitate teachers and students in enhancing their writing skills. It is organised based on the requirements of the SPM Paper 1 – Section A (Directed Writing) and Section B (Continuous Writing) only. Selective topics in this module are to show the strategies in tackling the questions effectively. Sample essays with guidelines and examination tips are given. In addition, different formats, analysis of past years’ questions and mark schemes are provided for easy reference.
3.0 ANALYSIS OF PAST YEAR QUESTIONS (2004 – 2008)
| Analysis of Directed Writing | |||||
| Types of Directed Writing | Year | ||||
| 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |
| Formal Letter | | | | | |
| Informal Letter | | √ | √ | | |
| Report | √ | | | | |
| Speech | | | | √ | |
| Article | | | | | √ |
| Analysis of Continuous Writing | ||
| Types of Continuos Writing | Year | Topic |
| Narrative | 2004 | Write a story ending with: “…We had never laugh so much in our lives.” |
| 2005 | Write a story entitled: ‘An Unexpected Visitor.’ | |
| 2006 | Write a story ending with: “If only I had been more careful, that wouldn’t have happenned.” | |
| 2007 | Write a story beginning with: “Kim was nervous when the door opened …” | |
| 2008 | Write a story ending with, “… Now I realized the value a true friend.” | |
| Descriptive | 2004 | Describe a festival celebrated in your area. |
| 2005 | Describe the biggest challenge in your life. | |
| 2006 | Describe an enjoyable weekend you have experienced. | |
| 2007 | Describe an embarrasing experience in your life. | |
| 2008 | Write about a person who has worked hard to success. | |
| Argumentative | 2004 | - |
| 2005 | - | |
| 2006 | - | |
| 2007 | ‘Teenagers today are only interested in entertainment’. Do you agree? Support your opinion. | |
| 2008 | Examinations – good or bad. | |
| Factual | 2004 | How can we help promote tourism in school. |
| 2005 | How to keep oneself healthy. | |
| 2006 | How can television help students in their studies | |
| 2007 | - | |
| 2008 | - | |
| Open | 2004 | Clothes |
| 2005 | Music | |
| 2006 | Foods | |
| 2007 | Tomorrow | |
| 2008 | Stars | |
| Reflective | 2004 | My Ideal School |
| 2005 | If you were given a chance to be anybody, who would you like to be and why? | |
| 2006 | What changes would you like to see in your life in the next ten years. | |
| 2007 | My early years | |
| 2008 | My perfect future husband or wife | |
PAPER 1
Format of the Paper :
The English Language 1119/1 Paper deals with writing skills
Section A : Directed Writing 35 marks
Section B : Continuous Writing 50 marks
TOTAL 85 marks
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DIRECTED WRITING
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EXAMINATION GUIDELINES
I. The Directed Writing is assessed in two parts:
· Content - 15 marks
· Language - 20 marks
TOTAL 35 marks
Ø Candidates will be assessed on their ability to carry out the
instructions given.
Ø Marks will be awarded for mentioning the points given.
Ø Candidates are also expected to analyse the stimulus provided and to develop the ideas.
Ø In writing tasks, marks would be allocated for the usage of the correct format.
CONTINUOUS WRITING
EXAMINATION GUIDELINES
1 The Continuous Writing is assessed by *holistic impression*. Marks for
language will be awarded for :
Ø language accuracy
Ø sentence structure / variety
Ø paragraphing
Ø vocabulary
Ø relevant points
Ø spelling
Ø style and tone
· Language - 50 marks
TOTAL 50 marks
Types of Directed Writing
| No | Types | Break down |
| 1 | Report | i. General Report * ii. Newspaper Reports * iii. Minutes of Meeting iv. Police reports v. Book reports |
| 2 | Speech / Talk | i. A Farewell Speech ii. A Welcoming Speech iii. General Speech * |
| 3 | Informal Letter | i. A Letter of Apology ii. A Letter to the newspaper iii. A General Letter * |
| 4 | Formal Letter | i. A Letter of Complaint * ii. A Letter to place an Order iii. A letter of Enquiry * iv. A Letter Application |
| 5 | Story Writing (Guided) | i. A Story on Moral Value |
| 6 | Articles | i. Describing Processes and Procedures ii. Describing People *, Places * and Events |
| 7 | Dialogue / Interview | i. An Informal Discussion ii. An Interview iii. A Telephone Conversation |
* These parts will be ‘zoomed in’ in this module.
Allocation of Marks for Language
| Grades / Marks | Descriptors |
| A 19 - 20 |
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| B 16 - 18 |
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| C 13-15 |
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| Grades / Marks | Descriptors |
| D 10-12 |
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| E 7-9 |
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| F 4 - 6 |
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| Grades / Marks | Descriptors |
| G 2 - 3 |
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| H 0 - 1 |
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Types of Continuous Writing
* These parts will be ‘zoomed in’ in this module.
| No | Types | Break down |
| 1 | Narrative | i. introduction of plot and setting ii. characterization iii. development of plot iv. the resolution / ending |
| 2 | Reflective | i. introduction : definition / quotation / anecdote ii. expressing personal views, thoughts and feelings iii. use of warms tones of language iv. show depth of thought and well organised ideas v. describe qualities / traits vi. add humour if possible |
| 3 | Descriptive | i. description of people / places / events ii. description of physical traits / qualities iii. use of adjectives to describe sensory perception iv. use suitable expressions / idioms / proverbs v. in chronological order of time and space vi. indicate the lesson learnt or moral values |
| 4 | Argumentative | i. make a stand ii. advantages and disadvantages iii. expressing opinion / providing solutions to problems iv. expressing arguments for and against a topic / issue by supportive evidence v. compare and contrast something or somebody |
| 5 | Factual | i. definition of issues and topics ii. identify at least 8 content points iii. advantages and disadvantages iv. reasons and factors v. measures / steps / solutions |
| 6 | Open Essay ( factual or narrative ) | i. factual account ( provide statistics ) ii. definition of issues and topics iii. advantages and disadvantages iv. reasons and factors v. measures / steps / solutions vi. narratives |
Continuous Writing
Question 3
The continuous writing is basically assessed by *general impression*. However, the following levels can be noted:
| Category | Marks Allocated | Remarks / Description |
| Excellent | 46-50 |
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| Good | 40-45 |
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| Satisfactory | 34-39 |
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| Passable | 24-33 |
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| Unsatisfactory | 16-23 |
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| Poor | 10-15 |
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| | 6-9 |
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| | 0-5 |
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REFERENCE
- Ministry of Education, 2009. Koleksi Kertas Peperiksaan Sebenar. Kuala Lumpur: CERDIK.
- Lee, A and Nan Y.A et al, 2002 150 Model Compositions for SPM, Kuala Lumpur: Fajar Bakti.
- R Tan, J and Ainon Zuba’ar (2007) Longman Reference Text Series, Shah Alam: Pearson Longman.
- Koh S.C 2002 Bahasa Inggeris 1119 Petaling Jaya; Sasbadi
- Sebastian, Mary 2004: (Step by Step Series, ‘Model Compositions for SPM 1119 English, Penerbit ESPI.
- Sebastian Mary, Roy, Jayati 2007: ‘Spot On’ Model Composition and Summaries for SPM 1119 English Oxford Fajar.
