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2025 PSLE preparation

The document outlines the changes and priorities for the 2025 PSLE English preparation, highlighting differences from 2024. It includes details on various components such as situational writing, continuous writing, and grammar exercises, along with specific structures and examples for question tags and subjunctive sentences. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of subject-verb agreement and provides exercises for practice.

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2025 PSLE preparation

The document outlines the changes and priorities for the 2025 PSLE English preparation, highlighting differences from 2024. It includes details on various components such as situational writing, continuous writing, and grammar exercises, along with specific structures and examples for question tags and subjunctive sentences. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of subject-verb agreement and provides exercises for practice.

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2025 PSLE

nglish preparation
Prepare smatrer ,but not harde

Forrest
1 changes

2 priorities

CONTENTS 3 methods
changes: 2024 vs 2025

NEW 2025 Notes


Situational Writing 5 14 50 5 marks
taken from
Paper 1
Continuous 40 36
Writing

Booklet A 28 95 25 90 5 marks
*Visual Text *Visual Text taken from
Comprehensi Comprehensi Paper 2
on – 8 marks on – 5 marks

Booklet B 67 65
*Editing – 12 *Editing – 10
marks marks

Reading Aloud 10 30 15 40 10 marks


given to
Stimulus-Based 20 25 Paper 4!
Conversation
grammar parts

 1. Subject pronoun and object pronoun( 8


times)

 For example: who vs whom


exercise
 To

 1.who or whom wrote that beautiful love poem?


 2.I just want to know ( who /whom) made this
delicious dish.
 3.Do you know the man (who/whom)is standing
there?
 4.My parents will accept (who/whom)I choose as
my husband.
 5.For (who /whom)are you buying this present?
 6.He is a kind of person for (who/whom)family is
very important.
 7. This is the man with(who/whom?you used to
work.
question tag(28)

 three structure:

 positve in the first part and then negative in


the second part

 negative in the first part and positive in the


second part
 statement with negative meaning
exercises
 structure one
 It’s Monday today, isn’t it?

 He often goes to school by bike, doesn’t


he?
 They went to the park yesterday, didn’t
they?

 basic rule :
 subjects agreement
 tense agreement
structure 2

 negative first and then positive seond:

 That isn’t your book, is it?

 Jim doesn’t speak French, does he?


 special cases:
speicial cases

 hardly, seldom, few, little, no, never,


nothing, nobody, nowhere
 when these words appear in the sentences,
please use positive in the question tag

 考试重点 key points of exam


subjectve sentences(29)

 3 structures:
 1) contradict with past facts
 2)contradict with present facts
 3)contradict with future facts
3 structures
 ① a wish for what might happen in the future：subject+wish+clause
subject+would(could,might)+verb base form

 (1) If + should + v., ... would + v. （little chances）（means in case）

 If it should rain tomorrow, you could stay at home.

 If I should fail, what should Ido?

 (2) If + did / were to + v ..., would + v. （no chances）

 If the sun were to rise in the west, I would lend you the money.

 If you finished it in 3 minutes, I would give you my car.



structure 2
 ② a wish contradicts to present facts ：
 subject+wish(that)+clause subject+past tense of
verb

 If + did / were + ..., ... would/ should/ could/ might +


do （ base form of verbs ）

 If I were you, I would go abroad at once. (I am not


you.)

 If he knew it now, he could help me. (He doesn't


know it now.)

structure 3
 ③contradict with what happend in the past or
regret ： subject+wish(that)+clause
subject+would/couldhave/had+past participle

 If + had done + ..., ... would (might) have done ...

 If I had known your telephone number yesterday, I


would have phoned you. (I didn't know your
telephone number.)

 If you had come here a little earlier just now, you


might have met her. (You didn't come here earlier.)
test priorities
 ● ： order, ask, decide, demand, require, recommend, suggest
（建议） , insist advise, Should +verb base form( Should often be
omitted)

 He suggested that we (should) help them with English.

 The teacher ordered that the homework (should) be


finished within half an hour.

： suggestion, order, request, demand, importance, proposal.

 He made a suggestion that we (should) have a fancy


dress party.

 I think it is a thing of importance that it (should) be done


soon.
continued
 ● It is / was important / necessary /
natural / essential / advisable /
strange / surprising, ect. + that
+subject+ should + v.
 It is strange that you should say
such a thing.

 It was important that you should tell


me all the information.
exercise
 ● if wish is used in a clause sentences, then in the as if
 subject + wish+ (that) + subject + did / were （ present ）

 had done （ past ）

 would+ v. （ future ）

 I wish that I met my uncle now.

 I wish I had met my uncle yesterday.

 I wish I could meet my uncle tomorrow.


exercise
 1. If my lawyer _______ here last Saturday ， he _______
me from going.

 A. had been ； would have prevented B. had been ；


would prevent

 C. were ； would prevent D. were ； would have prevented

 2. If I had worn my overcoat ， I _______cold.

 A. won’t have caught B 。 couldn’t have caught

 C. won’t catch D. wouldn’t catch


exercise
 3.—If he ______ ， he ______ that food.

 —Luckily he was sent to the hospital immediately.

 A. was warned ； would not take B. had been warned ； would


not have taken

 C. would be warned ； had not taken D. would have been


warned ； had not taken

 4. I didn’t see your sister at the meeting. If she _______ ， she


would have met my brother.

 A.has come B. did come C. came D. had come


present perfect (6)
 have done sth

 verb:

 sing, ring, hang, swim, fall, drink


past perfect continuous(3)

 have been doing sth.

They had kept the workers waiting for the train


on the platform for 2 hous before the train
finally approached the station
present perfect passive 2

 have /has been done

 The internet connect has been cut off


past perfect 7

 had done sth

 an action happend before another action


which also happend in the past.

 The classroom had been cleaned when all


the students came into .
subject verb agreement 39
 neither nor 5 times
 neither of 3 times
 intervenning phrases 14 times
 one of, none of ,all but one, all except,
everyone, the rich and the poor
 either or
quantifiers of uncountable and
countables (12)
 countable: some,any,many,few,afew, a lot of, lots
of, plenty of, a great many, a great number of 。如：

 I have lived here for many years.


 Remember to buy some stamps,won'tyou?

 2 、 uncountable:
 some,any,much, little, a little. a lot of, lots of, plenty
of, a great deal of, an amountof, a quantit!yof

 Save some milk for meHe gives me a lot of help


 some,any, a lot of, lots of, plenty of works for both
conjuctions 42
 while4 unless 2 regardless of 2
 despite 7 in spite of 2 despite of 2
 not...until 3 consequently 1
 whereas yet
 although 6 apart from 4
 nevertheless 3 except 3
 since 2
 result from
 otherwise 2
 owning to 2
nominal possesive pronoun2

 mine, yours, his, its, hers theirs, ours,


preposition 21
 enthralled by
 refrain from
 duiring the day
 within minutes
 have effect on
 due to
 bring ..to
 through
 between
 against
present perfect continuous

 have been doing sth


future present perfect 2

 will have done sth


comparative and
superlative

 adj

 regular and irregular


modality5

 shall, should, would ,could ,might, may,


ought to
passive sentences 2

 difficult part

 1. irregular

 2, have been done and had been done


verbal phrases 22
 object to doing sth

 look forward to doing sth

 prefer doing sth

 resort to doing sth


causitive verb 8
 let sb do something

 make sb do sth
reflexive pronouns 7

 himself , ourselves, themselves

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