PT3Pentaksiran Tingkatan 3PAPER 3SPEAKING TEST

FORMAT Time : 10 – 12 minutes per candidate 30 marks Only once – cannot re-sit if absent 2 examiners – from own school 2 sections

Section A: Reading Aloud (10m) Section B: Spoken Interaction (20m)

Let’s Play A GameBroken Telephone

Section A: Reading Aloud The time is about 5 minutes Time is given for silent reading – about 1

or 2 minutes Assessment Criteria:

Pronunciation and articulation Fluency and Rhythm Awareness of audience, purpose and

context

Pronunciation and articulation The correct pronunciation Articulation – clarity of the words being

read Intonation – the tone must be of the

correct context

4 factors contributing to pronunciation 1. Syllables

How many are there? For example : colleague , purchase , hippopotamus ,

refrigerator , pronunciation2. Word Stress

Proper and correct word stress For example : COLleague, PURchase, hippoPOTamus ,

reFRIgerator, pronunciAtion3. Sound Production

Able to produce the sounds that make up the words Refer to the dictionary to see the symbols of sounds

4. Repetition Don’t repeat the words until it is the correct pronunciation

How to Learn English Pronunciation Learn to recognize all the sounds of English Choose your pronunciation model Get in the habit of checking the

pronunciations of words Listen and notice Practice pronouncing English words and

phrases Consider learning the pronunciations of the

most common words

Words Determine Record Occur Where Were They Their They’re There

Bed Bet Bad Sad Said Tell Tale Sell Sale

How to practice Slow down when you speak Record yourself Read aloud daily

Ask a friend or family member to help Pay close attention to the words of others

During conversation Watching movies Listening to music

Carry a dictionary

Fluency and rhythm The delivery of the text No hesitations Correct pauses The rhythm is in accordance with the

context

Awareness of audience, purpose and context Be aware of your audience

Who Where

Be aware of the purpose of the reading Why What for

The contextText 1 Your little brother likes to listen to stories. You have written an interesting story which you would like to read to him. Read the text aloud.

Text 2 You and your cousins are spending the school holidays together. You chose a story from a boom which you would like to share with them. Read the story aloud.

Text 3 You have been asked to tell a story during your weekly English language society meeting. You have written an interesting story which you would like to share with the members. Read the text aloud.

Let’s Read

Section A: Reading AloudText 1Your little brother likes to listen to stories. You have written an interesting story which you would like to read to him. Read the text aloud.

Every morning, Johnny takes his flock of sheep to the fields to graze. He would sit under a tree and watch the sheep lazily munch on the grass. After they had eaten, he would round them up and walk home.

One day, Johnny saw a wolf at the edge of the field. However, it was some distance away and it did not come nearer. Johnny at first stood guard against the wolf and kept a strict watch over its movements.

But the wolf did not do anything. When Johnny herded the sheep and walked home with his flock, the wolf quietly followed them at a distance.

This continued for a few days. Johnny would find the wolf waiting near the field every morning.

One day, in the middle of grazing his sheep, Johnny felt very hungry. “I think I’ll leave my sheep here and go home and grab a quick meal. I don’t think that wolf will eat my sheep,” he said to himself.

When he came back, what did he find? The wolf had eaten most of his sheep. Johnny broke down in tears.

In shock, Johnny sat down under a huge shady tree. “Serves me right,” he moaned to himself, “Why was I so stupid to trust a wolf?”

Section A: Reading AloudText 2You and your cousins are spending the school holidays together. You chose a story from a boom which you would like to share with them. Read the story aloud.

It was a warm Saturday morning. Muthu woke up in a good mood. He was going to the nursery with his father. As Muthu loved gardening, he enjoyed visiting Mr. Lee’s nursery.

Muthu could see from the parking lot that the flowers and shrubs at the nursery were already in full bloom. Muthu’s father rubbed his hands together, “Let’s go and do some shopping,” he said. Muthu pushed the shopping cart while his father piled things into it. They bought ferns, flowers and fertilizer.

Muthu’s father held up a birdhouse. “Should we get this?” he asked Muthu. Muthu shook his head. “Let’s make our own,” he said.

They also decided to buy trays of young tomato and eggplant. “Are you sure we should get tomato?” Muthu asked his father. “Remember how the snails ate it all last year?”

His father sighed and nodded. “I’m going to spread sawdust this year. I heard that it helps to keep the snails away.”

Before paying, Muthu and his father spent some time walking around the nursery looking at all the plants. After that, they drove home and spent the rest of the day working in their garden. Muthu was tired when he went bed, but he was happy as the garden looked beautiful.

Section A: Reading AloudText 3You have been asked to tell a story during your weekly English Language society meeting. You have written an interesting story which you would like to share with the members. Read the text aloud.

One hot Sunday afternoon, Hamid, a 10-year old boy was walking past an ice cream shop. He looked through the big window and saw many boys and girls enjoying ice cream. Hamid entered the ice cream shop and sat at a table.

A waitress put a glass of water in front of him and handed him the menu. Hamid pushed the menu aside. “How much is an ice cream sundae?” he asked the waitress. “Two ringgit,” replied the waitress.

The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and counted the number of coins in his palm. “How much is a scoop of plain ice cream?” he enquired.

Some people were now waiting for a table and the waitress was a bit impatient. “One ringgit and fifty sen,” she said angrily.

The little boy again counted the coins. “I’ll have the plain ice cream, please,” he said.

The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and departed. When the waitress came back, she began wiping down the table and swallowed hard at what she saw. There, placed neatly beside the empty bowl, was fifty sen – her tip.

GAME TIME

Tongue Twister

SECTION B : SPOKEN INTERACTION

The time is about 5 minutes

A topic will be given

Candidate will be given 30 seconds to think about the topic

A few questions will be asked based on the topic

Most questions require a response based on one’s own experience and opinion

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Personal response• Quality of your responses • The ideas given are developed

Fluency• Fluent – smooth with no hesitation• Able to hold and sustain a conversation• Minimal prompting

Language accuracy• Range of vocabulary• Accurate grammar used• A variety of sentence structures

Pronunciation• Correct and acceptable pronunciation

GAME TIME

Topic Cards

LET’S PRACTICE

Role-play

Examiner and Candidate

Switch Role

With your shoulder partner

Q& A SESSION

GOOD LUCK & REMEMBER

Language takes you places