PAPER 2 : SECTION A (GUIDED WRITING)

How to write an essay

1. Read and understand the question
identify the format (eg: narrative/informal letter/speech/report)
identify the tense (eg: present tense/past tense)
2. Construct sentences.
Use notes given to construct sentence. Underline the words that you
know.
Use basic sentence pattern ( Subject + Verb + Elaboration )
Subject (Subjek)
Verb (Kata kerja)
Elaboration (Huraian)
Use Wh questions to
Nouns (kata nama)
Action (perbuatan)
elaborate
eg: Abu, students,
Eg: go,eat,study
school,cat
What (apa)
Linking verb eg: am,
Pronouns (kata ganti
are,
Who (siapa)
nama)
Has,have,was,were
When (bila)
Eg:
Where ( di mana)
He,she,I,you,we,they
Why (kenapa)
How (bagaimana)
Ali
goes
to school everyday.
My mother
was
happy because I passed
in the examination.
3. Write in paragraphs Introduction, Content , Closure
LETS TRY
Sample question
Look at the pictures. You may use the words given to write about a visit to a farm.
You are advised to spend about 35 minutes on this questions.

holidays stayed
grandfathers

helped work early

farm rears

picked

chickens - ducks

- fed

afternoon eggs
van shops learnt
- business

1. Read and understand the question

identify the format : Narrative/story
identify the tense : simple past tense ( stayed, helped, learnt )
2. Construct sentences
Underline the words that you know.
Try to write using the sentence table ( Subject / Verb / Elaboration)
INTRODUCTION ( 1st picture )

holidays stayed grandfathers - farm rears chickens - ducks

1. Write about the character ( girl, boy, man, woman)

a. Who ? my cousin, neighbour or best friend
b. What ? how old, race
c. Where? he lives in
d. What ? give an adjective or two that are suitable to the story
SUBJECT

VERB

ELABORATION

Ali
He
He
He
He

is
is
lives
is
stays

His grandfather
His grandfather
Ali

has
rears
likes to
help

my best friend.
12 years old.
in Taman Setia.
kind and helpful.
with his grandfather in the village during
the school holidays.
a farm
some chickens and ducks in his farm
his grandfather in the farm

B CONTENT ( 2nd picture )

helped work early picked - fed

3.

SUBJECT

VERB

ELABORATIONS

Ali

went

He
He
He
His grandfather

helped
picked
fed
took

to the farm in Terengganu last

holidays.
his grandfather in the farm.
the eggs.
the chickens and ducks.
the eggs to the shop.

Closure ( 3rd picture )

afternoon eggs van shops learnt - business

SUBJECT

VERB

ELABORATIONS

Ali
He
He
He

sold
went
was
learnt

the eggs in the afternoon.

to the shops by van.
very happy.
doing business from his
grandfather.

3. Join up sentences to form a paragraph. Write in paragraphs Introduction,

Content , Closure
Sample answer
Ali is my best friend. He is 12 years old. He lives in Taman Setia. He is kind and
helpful. He likes to stay with his grandfather in the village during the school holidays.
His grandfather has a farm and he rears some chickens and ducks in his farm. Ali
likes to help his grandfather in his farm.
Last holidays, Ali went to his grandfathers farm in Terengganu. His
grandfather has many chickens and ducks. Ali helped his grandfather in the farm. He
picked the eggs and fed the chickens and ducks.
Ali sold the eggs in the afternoon. He went to the shops by van. Ali was happy
because he has learnt doing business from his grandfather.
Exercise 1
Look at the pictures carefully. You may use the words given to write a story.

WRITING A STORY
Write a story using Mr. How and His 5 Wives Technique (Wh Questions)
PICTURE 1 - INTRODUCTION

Subject

Verb

Elaboration (What / Where / When / Who /

(Who/What)
English Language

organized

Why/ How)
a visit to ____________________ (where) last

Society
The childrens

is located

Saturday.
in _________________________ (where).

home
We

departed

from school at ______________ (what time) by

We
The children

arrived
welcomed

__________ ( how did you go there)

there at ________________. (what time)
us happily.

PICTURE 2 - CONTENT

Subject
(Who/What)
We
We
The food

Verb

Elaboration (What / Where / When / Who /

had
ate
was
chatted

Why/ How)
breakfast with the children. (who)
fried rice and bread. (what)
_________________ (how its taste)
about __________________________________

laughed

(what)
because_______________________________________
_
__________________________________________(why
)

PICTURE 3 - CONTENT

Subject
(Who/What)
The society
Teacher Rina
She
Ahmad, Siva and

Verb

Elaboration (What / Where / When / Who /

organised
asked
gave
cleared
painted

Why/ How)
many activities there such as gotong royong.
us to form groups.
different tasks to different groups.
grounds.
_______________________ (what)

planted

the flowers

finished

______________________________(where)
our gotong- royong at ________________ (what

Ali

We

time)

PICTURE 4 - CONTENT

Subject

Verb

Elaboration (What / Where / When / Who /

(Who/What)
We

collected

Why/ How)
the money at the school to give to the

Teacher Rina
We

gave
felt

children. (what)
donation to their teacher. (who)
glad because our donation can reduce their

can see
thanked

burden. (why)
their happiness on their face.
to us for our donation.

We
Their teacher and
the children

PICTURE 5 - CLOSURE

Subject

Verb

Elaboration (What / Where / When / Who /

(Who/What)
The children
We
We

send
promised
returned

Why/ How)
us to the bus.
them to come again for the next time.
back to school at ___________________ (what

The journey
We

was
were sleeping

time)
long.
in the bus because ___________________________

arrived
were

__________________________________ (why).
at school at ________________ ( what time)
________________ (how do you feel) because

We
We

_________________________________________ (why)
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