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End of Year Exam (SA2) Components 1) Language Usage and Comprehension 2) Oral 3) Listening Comprehension 4) Writing Language Usage and Comprehension Duration: 1h 15 mins Booklet A Booklet B Grammar MCQ Grammar Cloze (2 passages


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End of Year Exam (SA2)

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Components

1) Language Usage and Comprehension 2) Oral 3) Listening Comprehension 4) Writing

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Language Usage and Comprehension

Duration: 1h 15 mins

Booklet A

  • Grammar MCQ
  • Vocabulary MCQ

Booklet B

  • Grammar Cloze (2

passages

  • Comprehension

Cloze (1 passage)

  • Visual Text
  • Comprehension of a

passage

  • Sentence Combining
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Booklet A

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Examples

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Grammar MCQ

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Vocabulary MCQ

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Booklet B

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Examples

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Grammar Cloze

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Grammar Cloze

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Comprehension Cloze

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Visual Text

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Sentence Combining ( and, or but)

  • Natalie is a helpful girl. Natalie is a friendly
  • girl. (and)

Natalie is a helpful and friendly girl.

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Comprehension Passage

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Comprehension Passage

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Types of Questions

They were going to the zoo.

Who does ‘they’ in line 6 refer to?

The word refers to Mr Lee and his family.

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Types of Questions

Arrange the following events in sequence, using the numbers ‘1’, ‘2’ and ‘3’.

The Lee family arrived at zoo and Mr Lee bought the tickets. Mr Lee took many pictures of the children with the zoo animals. The family set off in the car

3 2 1

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Types of Questions

Put ‘T’ for True statements and ‘F’ for False statements shown below.

Mrs Lee drove the whole family to the zoo. The family set off in the car. Weilong took many pictures of his brother and sister with the zoo animals.

F F T

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Oral

A 5-minute preparation time will be given before testing. 2 Components:

  • Reading Aloud
  • Stimulus-based conversation (similar theme as

Reading Aloud)

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Reading Aloud

*Pauses (cued by punctuation marks) *Intonation

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Stimulus-based Conversation(SBC)

  • Students will choose a picture to talk about from

the pictures given.

  • Teachers will ask guiding questions regarding

the picture.

  • Student and teacher engage in a conversation.
  • Elaboration of answers instead of one-word

answers.

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Examples of SBC pictures

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Example of guiding questions

  • Do you like the dish? Why/Why not?
  • What are some ingredients that you see in this

dish?

  • Is this dish healthy? Why/why not?
  • What are some healthy food that we should

eat daily?

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Listening Comprehension

Time Taken: Conducted within a 30-minute time frame ( 15-20 minutes) 3 Components:

  • Picture matching
  • Sound discrimination (vowels, consonants,

rhyming words)

  • Note-taking
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Picture Matching

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Sound Discrimination

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Note-Taking

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Writing

Duration: 30 minutes

  • Based on 3 pictures
  • At least 70 words

fast food hungry lunch accidentally too happy spilled over annoyed regret mopped

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Thank you.