SPM FORMAT

ROADMAP TO SPM 2018

 CONTINUE…
MONTHS ACTIVITIES
July Paper 1 – Section A: Informal Letter
Paper 2 – Section B: Information Transfer
August Paper 1 – Section A: Speech
Paper 2 – Section B: Novel (Themes and
Moral Values)
September Paper 1: Section B: Narrative Writing
Paper 2: Section A: MCQ
October Revision & Trials
November SPM 2018
PAPER 1: SECTION B – NARRATIVE WRITING
• Elements of a narrative writing
• Tenses
• Type of sentences (part of speech)
• Plot/Storyline
• Dialogue
 PLOT/STORY LINE (JALAN CERITA)
CLIMAX

The turning point: the major

action or suspense

Events before the climax –

conflict between the characters

RISING ACTION/BUILD-UP FALLING ACTION

Actions and events leading to

resolution

EXPOSITION/ INTRODUCTION RESOLUTION/ENDING

(PENGENALAN) (PENUTUP)

Introduce the characters, setting,

Conflicts or problems are solved
time and conflict
 SAMPLE STORY LINE
CLIMAX
WARNING!
Don’t write too many
events! The new girl also had a
boyfriend. They broke up.
Event 1: A new girl student
transfer to their class
Event 2: Cherry found out the
relationship

RISING ACTION/BUILD-UP FALLING ACTION

Ian apologised to Cherry.

EXPOSITION/ INTRODUCTION RESOLUTION/ENDING

(PENGENALAN) (PENUTUP)

Characters: Setting: SMK Pitas Finally, they were together again

1. Ian – 17 years old student in Time: Early morning during and planned to get married after
SMK Pitas school day SPM.
2. Cherry – 16 years old Conflict: Ian likes another girl
students in SMK Pitas
 NOW YOUR TURN. CREATE YOUR STORY LINE.
CLIMAX

RISING ACTION/BUILD-UP FALLING ACTION

EXPOSITION/ INTRODUCTION RESOLUTION/ENDING

(PENGENALAN) (PENUTUP)
 PARAGRAPH 1
Lina had a dog. Its name was Brownie. It always looked after Lina’s baby.

a) What did Lina have ? (a dog)

Lina had a dog.
b) What was its name? (Brownie)
Its name was Brownie.
a) Describe Lina’s dog – big, brown
- faithful, obedient
Lina’s dog was big and brown. It is faithful and obedient.
a) How much Lina love her dog? (very much)
Lina lived her dog very much.
a) What did Brownie always do? (looked after Lina’s house and family)
Brownie always looked after Lina’s house and family.
 PARAGRAPH 2
One day, Lina went to the the shop nearby. Her baby was in the cot.

a) Describe the day the incident happened - Saturday morning

- sunny and windy
It was ____________________________________________________________
a) Where did Lina go one day? (shop nearby)
__________________________________________________________________
a) How did she go there? (walked)
__________________________________________________________________
a) What did she want to buy? (milk powder and diapers)
__________________________________________________________________
a) Who looked after the baby? (Brownie)
__________________________________________________________________
b) What was the baby doing? (playing happily)
______________________________________________________________________
c) Where was the baby? (in the cot)
______________________________________________________________________
 PARAGRAPH 3
A snake came into the house. It glided towards the baby’s cot.

a) Suddenly something came. What was it? (a snake)

_________________________________________________________________
a) Describe the snake - long, black
_________________________________________________________________
a) From where did it come? (the bushes around Lina’s house)
_____________________________________________________________________
a) Where was the snake going? (towards Lina’s house)
__________________________________________________________________
a) How did the snake move? (glided)
__________________________________________________________________
b) What did the snake do after that? (entered the house – towards the cot in the living
room)
______________________________________________________________________
c) Where was Brownie and what was he doing? (in the living room - lying near the cot
– keeping watch)
_______________________________________________________________________
 PARAGRAPH 4
Brownie ran and bit the snake.

a) What sound did Brownie hear? (a hissing sound)

_________________________________________________________________
b) What did he do? (opened his eyes)
_________________________________________________________________
c) What did he see? (saw the snake)
__________________________________________________________________
d) What did Brownie do when he saw the snake? ( got up - ran towards the snake)
__________________________________________________________________
e) What did the snake do? (raised itself - hissed - tried to attack Brownie)
__________________________________________________________________
b) Then what did Brownie do? (bit the snake)
______________________________________________________________________
c) What happened to the snake? (died)
_______________________________________________________________________
 PARAGRAPH 5
When Lina came home, she saw blood on Brownie’s mouth. She thought
Brownie had killed her baby.

a) What did Brownie do after that? (went to the front door – lay down – waited for
Lina to come home)
_________________________________________________________________
a) When did Lina come back home?
_________________________________________________________________
a) What did she do? (opened the front door)
__________________________________________________________________
a) What did she see and do next? (Brownie lying down – greeted Brownie)
__________________________________________________________________
b) What did Brownie do? (got up – wagged his tail)
__________________________________________________________________
b) What did Lina see on Brownie’s neck and mouth? (blood)
______________________________________________________________________
c) What did she think? (Brownie had killed her baby)
_______________________________________________________________________
d) How did she feel? (very angry)
_______________________________________________________________________
e) What did she do? (shouted/screamed)
_______________________________________________________________________
 PARAGRAPH 6
She took her husband’s hockey stick and hit Brownie’s head many times.
Brownie died. Lina ran to her baby’s cot.

a) What did Lina take? (her husband’s hockey stick)

_________________________________________________________________
b) Where was it? (on the sofa)
_________________________________________________________________
c) What did she do with the hockey stick? (hit Brownie’s head many times)
__________________________________________________________________
d) What happened to Brownie? (died)
__________________________________________________________________
e) What did she do after that?
__________________________________________________________________
 PARAGRAPH 7
Her baby was alive. She cried.

a) What did she see? (dead snake)

_________________________________________________________________
a) Where was the snake (under her baby’s cot)
_________________________________________________________________
a) What else was there? (blood)
__________________________________________________________________
a) What did she think? (snake - killed her baby)
__________________________________________________________________
b) What did she do? (looked into the cot)
__________________________________________________________________
b) How was the baby?
______________________________________________________________________
c) What was the baby doing? (playing with a toy)
_______________________________________________________________________
d) What did Lina do? (cried)
_______________________________________________________________________
e) Why did she cry?
_______________________________________________________________________
f) What do you think she would have said?
 PARAGRAPH 8
She regretted what she did.

a) What had Brownie actually done? (killed the snake - save her baby)
_________________________________________________________________
b) Did Lina act rationally?
_________________________________________________________________
c) Write the ending: Lina regretted what she did
__________________________________________________________________
 YOUR TURN
Write a story ending with. “It was really a pleasure to help Uncle Miguel”
Clone SPM 2016

Step by step :
1. Write a story line to help you.
2. Use Wh-Questions to help you develop the story.
3. Write in your exercise book.
4. You can see me from time to time for help.

Submit: 28 February 2018 (Wednesday)