5 Steps to a Very good PSLE Chinese Composition without memorizing any Chinese phrases or good words

5 Steps to a Very good PSLE Chinese Composition without memorizing any Chinese phrases or good words.

I don’t believe a good composition is written with canned phrases or memorized words, so I set out to find out what makes a good composition without the above. And I found out that there are 5 steps to help any students master composition easily. (The catch is it is not a short cut and it takes time to train)

The principle behind the 5 steps are very simple too. You create the environment to increase the child to expose your child to a very Chinese environment intentionally and systematically. A little by a little, you create spaces for your child to expose to the Chinese Language.

How babies learn?

All babies start to learn languages via listening and interacting with their parents and surrounding people. So to short cut language learning, listen to lots of Chinese Language audios and speak to lots of people is the fastest. However, Chinese Language is really a family Language aka mother tongue, so if the house does not speak it, then the next source have to be friends. Even my daughters do not speak Chinese outside our house, No wonder Chinese Language is harder to cope with.
Then they start to speak the language, use the language.
Then They start to form speeches and learn to write the character. In school they start to put thoughts into essays.

How to create a Chinese environment via the 5 steps

Step 1, Read out composition sentences one word at a time.
Take a good composition in primary 6 level like this

“小明、小华,再见!”妈妈一边面带笑容地向兄弟俩挥手道别,一边急匆匆地走出门。小明和弟弟小华也热情地向妈妈招手。关上门之前,妈妈再次嘱咐道:“小明,你要照顾好弟弟哦!妈妈去巴刹买菜,一会儿就回来了。你们俩要做个好孩子!”小明点了点头,爽快地答应:“妈妈,你别担心,我会照顾好弟弟的!”过后,妈妈才放心地离开了。

门关上后,妈妈的脚步声也渐渐远去。小明立即冲到电子游戏前,准备玩游戏。他戴上耳机,目不转睛地看着屏幕,不一会儿就玩得不亦乐乎。小华则迫不及待地把玩具搬到客厅,雀跃万分地玩玩具。过了一会儿,小华的肚子唱起了“空城计”,他便一个箭步跑到厨房,拿了一盒美味可口的饼干。过后,他回到客厅,一边津津有味地吃饼干,一边玩玩具。

正当小华玩得起劲时,窗外传来一阵“叽叽”的声音。小华转头一看,原来一只小鸟停在了窗外的大树上,唱起了优美的歌曲。小鸟的翅膀是墨绿色的,嘴巴鲜红色,看起来漂亮极了。小华丢下玩具,跳了起来,然后三步并作两步地跑到窗户旁。他举起手中的饼干,对小鸟说:“小鸟,小鸟,来吃饼干,饼干很好吃哦!”过了一会儿,小华见小鸟还是没反应,心顿时往下一沉。他嘟着嘴,脸上露出失望的神情,自言自语道:“小鸟不喜欢我,小鸟不理我,怎么办啊?”这时,他灵机一动,心想:我出去捉小鸟吧!小鸟那么可爱,如果可以把它捉起来当宠物该多好呢!想到这儿,小华便兴高采烈地跑出家门,一心只想着那只可爱的小鸟。

这时,小明玩得非常入迷。他戴着耳机,完全没有察觉到弟弟跑出去了。过了一会儿,小明的肚子“咕噜咕噜”地响起。他摸了摸肚子,心想:我到厨房拿点儿东西吃,再回来继续玩吧!于是,他小心翼翼地摘下耳机,按下了让游戏机暂停的按钮。不料,当小明转身的时候,却不见弟弟的踪影!小明顿时吓得目瞪口呆,不停地东张西望。他急得像热锅上的蚂蚁,立刻在屋子里到处寻找弟弟。但是,小明检查了每一个角落,始终找不到弟弟。小明的心好像揣了一只兔子似的,怦怦直跳。他心想:糟了,弟弟到底跑到哪儿去了?他这么顽皮,是不是跑到外面去了?他转头看了大门,发现大门是开着的,心中有了答案。于是,他二话不说,飞也似地奔出家门。

一踏出家门,映入眼帘的一幕让小明呆若木鸡,一时不知所措。小华竟然爬上了一棵大树,正伸手想捉一只小鸟。小明回过神后,扯开嗓子大吼道:“小华,快下来!”小华被小明的叫喊声吓坏了。他的手一松,顿时失去平衡。他整个人往前一倾,跌下了大树,重重地摔落地上。小华疼得号啕大哭起来。

小明被这突如其来的一幕吓得魂飞魄散。惊魂甫定之后,他见小华的伤势不轻,便打电话通知妈妈。妈妈听了,连忙神色慌张地赶回来。过后,她把小华送到附近的医院。

在医院里,妈妈急得坐立不安。后来,医生告诉妈妈小华的右腿骨折,轻微擦伤。妈妈这才如释重负。这真是不幸中的大幸啊!

事情解决过后,妈妈把小明骂得狗血淋头。小明羞红着脸,惭愧得低下头,一句话也不敢反驳。从此以后,小明再也不敢只顾玩游戏而忽略了照顾弟弟的责任了。

and read out each words. do this for 3 months daily and you will recognize more words then the words you learn in textbook in a year. (Why P6 composition? I think if you are going for PSLE, there is no point learning anything lower than primary 5.)

Step 2 Good phrases/words?

The child need to highlight the good phrases and comment why they are good, did they expresses an emotion well or they describes an situation well.

By going through the process of identifying good phrases and good words using understanding, a child learns more than just memorizing those good words and phrases. After going through the whole essay, The child should be able to suggest how to improve the said composition.

Step 3 The stages of a composition

Most teachers classify composition into 3 stages from Introduction, body and ending. I Think 6 stages are a better structure from (1) introduction, (2) building up, (3) tension rises high, (4) Climax event happens, (5) ending of the events then I added a (6) conclusion to tell us the moral of the story.

In a picture composition, This structure will be like picture 1 is the introduction, picture 2 is the building up, picture 3 something happen and tension rises, picture 4 -5 the climax event happens, picture 6 is the ending and conclusion is added.

In a theme composition, the story will follow this story line too. This structure have 2 characteristics which most pupils are lacking. 1, the ability to build up a story until climax and 2, the ability to quickly end the story tying all the knots in character and story line.

Take the Mulan story, first there is this girl call mulan who is normal but likes swords. This is the hint that her fate is not in marriage. Then her father is recruited again but her father does not have a suitable son to hold his sword nor can he hold the sword well. This hints that mulan being the daughter, at the right age can uphold her father’s name in war. And surely she chooses to be recruited and fought the way up the ladder to be the general people respected. (This is the buildup to the climax) And surely she was given a wish by the King and she wishes to be back at home. (this is the climax where the circle goes around and she is back to her house.) Now to have an ending, we must tie the knot between her battle mates and her in her village. So the moral of the story is …… girls and women can do a part in their family too (could be a moral of the story).

And you will see stories are everywhere and they mostly followed some structure like the 6 stages of composition.

will be continued……