UPSR ENGLISH MASTERY

UPSR ENGLISH MASTERY SEMINAR

PAPER 1 - FORMAT

PAPER FORMAT

• THERE ARE PAPER 1 & 2
• PAPER 1 IS DIVIDED INTO 5 SECTIONS (40 MCQ)
• PAPER 2 IS DIVIDED INTO 3 SECTIONS. MORE ON WRITING

PAPER 1

• PAPER 1 - 40 MARKS
• 40 MCQ - 50 MINS
• AVERAGE 75 SEC PER QUESTION

PAPER 1

• TIMING STRATEGY:
• ALLOW 1 MIN PER QUESTION
• 10 MINS FOR REVIEW

PAPER 1 - SECTION A

• COVERS VOCABULARY
• 10 MCQ
• WORD LEVEL Q1-4
• PHRASE LEVEL Q5-7
• SENTENCE LEVEL Q8-10

PAPER 1 - SECTION B

• SOCIAL EXPRESSION
• 5 MCQ, Q11-15
• BASED ON A PICTURE
• THERE ARE 2 SPEECH BUBBLES

PAPER 1 - SECTION B

• Q11-15 - THE UPPER SPEECH BUBBLE IS THE 1ST SPEAKER
• THE LOWER SPEECH BUBBLE IS THE 2ND SPEAKER
• USUALLY, THE 1ST SPEAKER ASK A QUESTION.
• STUDY THE PICTURE CAREFULLY.
• DETERMINE THE EXACT SITUATION.
• CHOOSE THE RIGHT RESPONSE.

SECTION D - GRAMMAR TEXT COMPLETION

• Q26-30, 5 MCQ
• TEST ON PREPOSITION, PRONOUN, TENSES, ADJECTIVES, ETC
• A PASSAGE WITH A PICTURE
• YOU MUST EXTRACT CLUES FROM THE PICTURE AND SELECT THE BEST ANSWER FROM THE GIVEN OPTIONS.

SECTION E - COMPREHENSION

• Q31-40, 10 MCQ
• COMPRISES 2 PASSAGES
• Q31-40 COMPREHENSION PASSAGE
• Q36-40 PASSAGE CONSIST OF POEM, DIARY, FORM, PLAN, MAP, NOTICE, POSTER, LABEL, ETC

Paper 2 - Format

PAPER 2 - 75mins

• Sec A - Write 5 sentences
• Sec B - Information transfer
• Sec C - Write sentences describing the picture

PAPER 2 - Section A

• Study the picture and understand it.
• Understand the picture better with the helping words
• Decide on a topic or title for the picture composition.
• This will help you to be more focused in your writing

PAPER 2 - Section A

• Give the characters in the picture names so that it will be easy to write about them.
• Check your tenses. If the helping words given are in the present tense then that is your clue.
• Plan on how to begin and end your composition

PAPER 2 - Section A

• Give the characters in the picture names so that it will be easy to write about them.
• Check your tenses. If the helping words given are in the present tense then that is your clue.
• Plan on how to begin and end your composition

PAPER 2 - Section A

• Give the characters a name - Azman and Aiman
• Decide on a topic - At the library.
• Tense to use - Present Tens

PAPER 2 - Plan

• Who are there?
• Where are they?
• What are they doing?
• Why they are there?
• Describe the library.

PAPER 2 - Sample

• Azman and Aiman go to their school library whenever they have any free time.
• There are many types of books neatly and orderly arranged on the shelves of the library
• They like the library because it is a nice and cool place to sit and read quietly.
• Azman wants to borrow a book about dinosaurs
• They have to read and return the books that they borrow within two weeks.

PAPER 2 - Sample

• 4. Azman wants to borrow a book about dinosaurs
• 5. They have to read and return the books that they borrow within two weeks.

Note Expansion

• You must have a plan
• The picture composition must have a title or topic

Starting and Ending

• Use the same formula as in Section A:
• Name the characters
• Decide on a topic eg. House on Fire
• Tense to use - Past tense
• The conclusion. What happened?

Topic: A Fire
Name: Neighbour Mrs Tan saw the fire
Tense: Past Tense

Paragraph 1: How the fire was spotted?
Paragraph 2: When he fire engines arrived?
Paragraph 3: How the firemen helped put our the fire

The Twist

The Twist

• The conclusion with a twist:
• The firemen extinguished the fire quickly and left.
• Suddenly, the neighbour remembered that Sharmin, the 5 year old girl was in the house.
• Then she saw Sharmin's favourite brown teddy bear at the window ledge. Where is she?

Malcolm Ooi