PT3

Pentaksiran
Tingkatan 3
PAPER 3
SPEAKING 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)

Lets Play A
Game
Broken 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

2.

Word Stress

3.

Proper and correct word stress

For example : COLleague, PURchase, hippoPOTamus ,
reFRIgerator, pronunciAtion

Sound Production

4.

How many are there?

For example : colleague , purchase , hippopotamus ,
refrigerator , pronunciation

Able to produce the sounds that make up the words

Refer to the dictionary to see the symbols of sounds

Repetition

Dont 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
Theyre
There

Bed
Bet
Bad
Sad
Said
Tell
Tale
Sell
Sale

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

Pay close attention to the words of others

Ask a friend or family member to help

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

Who
Where

Be

aware of your audience

aware of the purpose of the reading

Why
What for

The context
Text 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.

Lets Read

Section A: Reading Aloud

Text 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 .
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 Ill
leave my sheep here and go home and grab a quick meal. I dont 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 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.
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. Lees
nursery.
Muthu could see from the parking lot that the flowers and shrubs at the nursery
were already in full bloom. Muthus father rubbed his hands together, Lets 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.
Muthus father held up a birdhouse. Should we get this? he asked Muthu. Muthu
shook his head. Lets 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. Im 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 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.
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. Ill 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 ones
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

LETS PRACTICE
Role-play
Examiner and Candidate
Switch Role
With your shoulder partner

Q& A SESSION

G O O D LU C K & R E M E M B E R
Language takes you places