SPM 2007

Section A: Directed Writing [35 marks]

You are advised to spend about 45 minutes in this section
Question 1
You have been asked by your teacher to give a talk on a reference book that is useful for
the secondary students. You have decided to give a talk about a science book.
Use the following notes about the book to write your talk
Details of the book
-Title
: Science Made Simple - Point 2
-Author
: Sharifah Shazana Point 3
-Publisher : Bunga Publications Point 4

Reasons why the book is useful

- attractive presentation - Point 5
- clear explanation - Point 6
-variety of exercises - Point 7
-sample answers - Point 8
-practice question papers - Point 9
-useful tips - Point 10

When writing the talk, you should remember:

to use an appropriate greeting and closing

to state the purpose of the talk Point 1
to use all the notes given
to give two other reasons of your own - Point 11 and Point 12
that the talk is for school students

*Previous knowledge: All the sequence and logical connectors used in the writing task
sheet.
Steps to teach extremely weak students:
1. Label each point with numbers and instruct students to group the points as
follows: Point 1 is the title/purpose of the talk/speech [Para 1]
Point 2,3 and 4 [Para 2]
Point 5,6,7 and 8 [Para 3]
Point 9,10, 11 and 12 [Para 4]
2. Go through instruction and overall question with students.
3. Teach students to write the greetings/introductory paragraph of a talk/speech
4. Teach the following sentence pattern to help students at forming complete
sentences
i.
The __________ of the Science reference book is
___________________________ .
ii.
The Science reference book has ___________________________________.
5. Sentence pattern i. :Instruct students to fill in the blank with title, author and
publisher [Para 2]
6. Add on every point [Point 5- 12] to sentence pattern ii
E.g: Para 3
Besides that, The Science reference book has [Point 5]. In addition, The Science
reference book has [Point 6]. Next, The Science reference book has [Point 7] and
[Point 8].

7. Students are required to memorize the conclusion:

Finally, I would like to thank you for listening to my speech.

Paragraph 1 - Introduction
Good morning to ___________________,______________________
and_______________________.
Today I would like to give a speech entitled
____________________________________________________.

Paragraph 2
Ladies and gentlemen
Firstly,
____________________________________________________________________________.
Secondly,
_________________________________________________________________________________ .
Thirdly,
___________________________________________________________________________________ .

Paragraph 3
Besides that,
_______________________________________________________________________ . .In addition,
_______________________________________________________________________________.
Next, ______________________________________________ and
__________________________________ .

Paragraph 4
Other than that,
____________________________________________________________________ .
Moving on _____________________________________________________________________________ ,
___________________________________________
and___________________________________________ .

Paragraph 5
Finally, I would like to thank you for listening to my speech.