FREE WRITING ACTIVITY

This is a free-writing exercise. Write a paragraph (not exceeding 200 words) on any topic you like. Please be serious about this writing activity as I need to know exactly your personal style of writing. Do not cut and paste - I need to read a genuine piece of your own writing. You can start writing below.

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When i was still primary two, my results were really bad when compared to my siblings. However, when i was promoted to primary three, my results gets better and better in each examination. From what i remember, my parents seem to be even estatic than me. The next morning after the receiving of primary three End-Of-Year Examination results, my parents said something that really surprise me. They finally promised to buy me a hamster! As exhilaration bubbled through my veins and without giving them anytime to change their minds, i dragged them to the pet shop immediately.

The next thing i remember was me carrying a tiny box and crossed the road with my father. The imagination that two dwarf hamsters are knocking onto the wall of the box made each of my step real careful. Soon, we reached home! To my surprise, my mother had already bought a cage for them. Gently, i placed them into their unfamiliar home. They look cute, one of them is white while the other is black. However, they seems helpless.

Comments :

You need to be more careful of your tenses. Your sentence structures need more refinement asthey are quite rough at the moment. The use of more complicated vocab is not quite right thus rendering your writing rather strange to read.

Two Paragraphs From The Book By An Appreciated Author

His shoulders lowered adruptly, as though he were a marionette and his puppeteer had suddenly relaxed the strings. The corners of his mouth drooped and he swallowed hard. Compared to the substantial gentleman I'd met before, this guy was a deflected tire. A different pressence altogether. Different mannerisms. Different speech patterns.

It was too hot to rush home. I walked slowly, savouring the colours of late summer blossoms I couldn't name, impressed by the industriousness of bees. No one tailed me. I heard the vagged engine of motorbike and wondered idly whether any self-respecting monster would use such primitive transport, but it traveled another street.

5b. I made a mistake in tellling her my secret

Paragraph 1

-puzzled why everyone is looking at me strangely

-recalled that i have only confided my secret in my best friend (how did you come to the conclusion that the strange looks you get is related to your secret? You'll need to explain that.)

Paragraph 2

-called to the boss office

-said that cannot have an ex-convict in his company

-undoubtedly, my best friend betrayed me (How? Why?)

Paragraph 3

-when i finished packing the stuff and preparing to leave she acted like nothing happened

-trying to console me

-dropped her from a list of friend (that's all?)

Paragraph 4

-desperate for a job in the next few months

-finally found one in uncle's company, where they trusted me running the finance

Comments :

The story is simple. If you can convince the marker of the feelings/emotions that you went through in the office, you might just get good marks. The style of your writing will determine whether you can pull this off. Conclusion is rather weak. One suggestion is that another colleague helped you get a job - lose a friend, gain another? You can also relate to the Yellow Ribbon project in Singapore to make it realistic - but you'll have to read up on that to get more details - that'll make your story convincing.

November 2003 paper 2

Summary

why the money developed by china proved so successful

-cheap metals - state guaranteed the value

-recognised shape and design

-convenient (can be strung together)

increase in merchants and traders more use of coins

-banknote - carried specific amount of money

-guaranteed by state

why money produced later by other countries also proved successful

-follow china - metal coins

-metals(silver/gold) mined and fashioned

-trade

why in the end our money today follow the Chinese model so closely

-people scape off the valuable metals

-cheap immitation

-value of coins drop

thus

-buying power determined by govt

-official mark stamp

-banknote value - official guaranteed

Index No : 18

Name : Tay Li Chuen

3 Good sentence/starters for sentences :

- A sly smile comes over her face and she lets loose her secret weapon...

- It takes some convincing....

3 Good phrases to "borrow"

-small in size but not in spirit -typical teenage fashion

- less mean fighting machine

-punctuates every sentence with a nervous giggle

Ten Years Series 2004 section 1

composition

Question 2 : write about an occasion when a furious argument took place, based on a case of mistaken identity.

I glanced up to the clock on the wall with anxiety. "Why isn't he back yet?" I murmured to myself, exasperated. Christmas was reaching and almost everyone was out for shopping. The well-decorated shopping mall located near Admiralty MRT station was especially crowded. After the thirty minutes wait at the benchless and noisy bus interchange, I could not help taking out another packet of tissue and start wiping away the irritating droplets of water that gathered around my neck.

Finally, I waited enough. Just when I was about to go home, somebody shouted behind. "Hey! Where do you think you are going? Stop right there!" A clear and sharp voice shot through the bus interchange. Unanimously, many puzzled looking people turned and tried to locate the direction where the shouting comes from. Within seconds, throngs of people had already gathered near the escalator. Innate curiosity prompted me to follow the crowd.

"This lady, can you please stop shouting and gesturing at me? This is my fifth time saying that I am not the one you are looking for." "Young man, just have some guts and own up. You are definitely the one that had abandoned my daughter and cheated her money." "No, I am not! How many times must I repeat?" The shouting continued. To my surprise, the voice was familiar. "Was it Brandon?" I wondered. After a few tries of jostling and squeezing, I finally found a perfect space to view the squabble. As he glanced back, I realised that it was as I predicted, Brandon was standing there.

However, as more and more spectators surrounded them, their chatter overwhelmed the quarrel that was ongoing. Wanting to know what actually was happening to my friend, who made me waited alone for so long, I braced up and stepped forward. The moment I started asking Brandon for the exact situation, the thin but fierce looking lady shouted. “Don’t ever think that I will let you off just because you have a backup. Moreover, it’s just another girl who you will dump after getting what you want.” Feeling being challenged and insulted, I bit my lips and tried my best to hold back the hurting words that threatened to spill out. Calming down, I looked up and was frightened by the inexplicable stare. Trying to end the dispute desperately, I explained to the lady that Brandon was my friend since kindergarten. Knowing him very well, I ensured to the lady that he was definitely not the kind of person who she talked about and assured her our platonic friendship. After another round of offensive remarks, I could no longer control the up rushing fire. We savagely shouted to each other and the quarrel was becoming furious.

More people crowded around. Amid the seemingly never ending argue, a good-looking young girl suddenly hold the unreasonable lady’s arm. Blushing, she said “mum! You got the wrong person again! Let’s go home and stop embarrassing yourself.”

Xinmin Secondary comprehension

Q1(a). The rowers are moving(?) very fast and with great strength. (OK)

(b). The villagers 'squint' to position themselves for a better view of the finish. (No.)

(c). The villagers are very nervous and excited. (Yes.)

Q2. The two judges would be biased towards the team from their own village and end up in a fight due to the dispute regardless which team won. (Then why have a race?)

The judges would be biased towards their own village when both teams passed the finishing point at almost the same time.

Q3. Arguement and fighting might occur. (Q asks what had happened, not what will.)

Q4(a).The word is altercation. (Yes)

(b). The gentleman move the eku rapidly in circles around him to create the motion of sand. (I don't understand. You've got something there - now make it clearer.)

(c). The villagers were busy with the fight and were unaware of the gentleman's presence. (No.)

(d). The man uses the eku to throw sand at rowers who engaged in the fight and made them feel uneasy. (Yes, but made them feel uneasy? Where did you find that in the passage?)

(e). He stopped the fight without anyone getting hurt. (Yes.)

Q5.

Q6. The martial artistes think that martial art and martial sports differ in their implication. Martial arts could be used in one's real life. (And m. sports?)

Q7. The martial artistes practise precautionary movements and techniques that stop the opponent before contact.

CHIJ prelim

Q1. People used to paint on walls of the caves and parchment made from animal skin.

Q2. Parchment could not be produced in large quantities like paper and the process was much more expensive.

Q3. It was forbidden to even step on a piece of paper with writing on it.

Q4. 'Set the stage' means made possible.

Q5. The word is advent.

Q6.

Q7. The writter was amused but Munn was disappointed at the paper used.

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