Revision notes for EL

Dear children,

Some notes for your revision! (Parents please go through with your child.)

Section A: Vocabulary MCQ (5 x 1 mark)
Revise the words in your spelling list.
Underline key words that help you get to the answer.

Section B: Grammar MCQ (5 x 1 mark)
Underline key words that give clues to:
1) the tense
2) subject verb agreement (singular or plural)

Section C: Grammar Cloze (8 x 1 mark)
Draw arrows and link ideas to your answer.
Look out for:
1) the tense used in the story (check the sentence before and after)
2) special words like 'to', modal verbs 'can', 'will', 'could'... where we use the base verb form after them. (e.g. can dance, will sing, he likes to swim)
3) verb groups: did not see, does not want
4) subject verb agreement (singular or plural)
5) gender: male or female (e.g. Mr Raju ordered tea for himself)

Section D: Editing (5 x 1 mark)
1) Spelling error: Say out the letter sounds that you see. Read the sentence to get the meaning. Write the correct word.
2) Punctuation error: Check if it's a speech. Look out for words like 'asked' - ?, 'shouted' - !
Look out for capital letters that indicate the start of the sentence. Be careful though, some of the capital letters are proper nouns or names. Do not get confused by it.

Section E: Word Order (3 x 1 mark)
1) Order the words and write the number on top to make sure you don't leave out any word.
2) Check for names. The first letter has to be a capital letter.
3) Check for punctuation. If it is a question, you must put a question mark. If not, check if it's a full stop or an exclamation mark.

Section F: Joining of Sentences (2 x 2 marks)
1) Put a bracket on repeated words or phrases in the two sentences. Do not repeat the same words.
2) Check if the name is repeated twice. Use a pronoun (he, she, it, they...) to replace the second one.
3) Check for the order of events. Read and think, which happened first? E.g, Does a rainbow appear before the rain?

Section G: Comprehension (10 marks)
1) Read the True and False questions carefully. Underline the people and places and check the story carefully to see if it fits.
2) Use the process of elimination if needed. Cross out all the answers that you know are definitely wrong to try to get to the answer.
3) Check for tenses in the open-ended question. Many of you keep forgetting! Do not start your answer with 'Because..' , most of you are not able to write a complete sentence and you will get -1 for it. Answer to the point, there's no need to repeat the question.
4) Do not lift and copy the exact sentence from the passage. Make some minor changes and twerk it to fit the answer. 


Hope these help! Please feel free to ask me if you have more questions over the weekend. Take care!


All the best,
Mrs Soh