ENGLISH MODULE FOR WRITING

How to write an essay

1. Read and understand the question

 identify the format (eg: narrative/informal letter/speech/report)
 identify the tense (eg: present tense/past tense)
2. Construct sentences.
 Use notes given to construct sentence. Underline the words that you know.
 Use basic sentence pattern ( Subject + Verb + Elaboration )
Subject (Subjek) Verb (Kata kerja) Elaboration (Huraian)
 Nouns (kata nama)  Action (perbuatan) Use Wh questions to elaborate
eg: Abu, students, school,cat Eg: go,eat,study  What (apa)
 Pronouns (kata ganti nama)  Linking verb eg: am, are,  Who (siapa)
Eg: He,she,I,you,we,they Has,have,was,were  When (bila)
 Where ( di mana)
 Why (kenapa)
 How (bagaimana)
Ali goes to school everyday.
My mother was happy because I passed in the
examination.

3. Write in paragraphs – Introduction, Content , Closure

LET’S TRY

Sample question
Look at the pictures. You may use the words given to write about a visit to a farm. You are advised
to spend about 35 minutes on this questions.

holidays – stayed helped – work – early afternoon – eggs –

– grandfather’s – – picked van – shops – learnt
farm – rears – - fed - business
chickens - ducks
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1. Read and understand the question
 identify the format : Narrative/story
 identify the tense : simple past tense ( stayed, helped, learnt )
2. Construct sentences
 Underline the words that you know.
 Try to write using the sentence table ( Subject / Verb / Elaboration)

INTRODUCTION ( 1st picture )

holidays – stayed – grandfather’s - farm – rears –chickens - ducks

1. Write about the character ( girl, boy, man, woman…)

a. Who ? – my cousin, neighbour or best friend
b. What ? – how old, race
c. Where? – he lives in ……
d. What ? – give an adjective or two that are suitable to the story

SUBJECT VERB ELABORATION

Ali is my best friend.

He is 12 years old.
He lives in Taman Setia.
He is kind and helpful.
He stays with his grandfather in the village during the
school holidays.
His grandfather has a farm
His grandfather rears some chickens and ducks in his farm
Ali likes to help his grandfather in the farm

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 B CONTENT ( 2nd picture )

helped – work – early – picked - fed

SUBJECT VERB ELABORATIONS

Ali went to the farm in Terengganu last holidays.

He helped his grandfather in the farm.
He picked the eggs.
He fed the chickens and ducks.
His grandfather took the eggs to the shop.

3. Closure ( 3rd picture )

afternoon – eggs – van – shops – learnt - business

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 SUBJECT VERB ELABORATIONS

Ali sold the eggs in the afternoon.

He went to the shops by van.
He was very happy.
He learnt doing business from his grandfather.

3. Join up sentences to form a paragraph. Write in paragraphs – Introduction, Content , Closure

Sample answer
Ali is my best friend. He is 12 years old. He lives in Taman Setia. He is kind and helpful. He likes
to stay with his grandfather in the village during the school holidays. His grandfather has a farm and he
rears some chickens and ducks in his farm. Ali likes to help his grandfather in his farm.
Last holidays, Ali went to his grandfather’s farm in Terengganu. His grandfather has many
chickens and ducks. Ali helped his grandfather in the farm. He picked the eggs and fed the chickens and
ducks.
Ali sold the eggs in the afternoon. He went to the shops by van. Ali was happy because he has
learnt doing business from his grandfather.

Exercise 1
Look at the pictures carefully. You may use the words given to write a story.

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 WRITING A STORY

Write a story using ‘Mr. How and His 5 Wives Technique’ (Wh Questions)

PICTURE 1 - INTRODUCTION

Subject (Who/What) Verb Elaboration (What / Where / When / Who / Why/ How)
English Language organized a visit to ____________________ (where) last Saturday.
Society
The children’s home is located in _________________________ (where).
We departed from school at ______________ (what time) by
__________ ( how did you go there)
We arrived there at ________________. (what time)
The children welcomed us happily.

PICTURE 2 - CONTENT

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Subject (Who/What) Verb Elaboration (What / Where / When / Who / Why/ How)
We had breakfast with the children. (who)
We ate fried rice and bread. (what)
The food was _________________ (how its taste)
chatted about __________________________________ (what)
laughed because________________________________________
__________________________________________(why)

PICTURE 3 - CONTENT

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Subject (Who/What) Verb Elaboration (What / Where / When / Who / Why/ How)
The society organised many activities there such as ‘gotong royong’.
Teacher Rina asked us to form groups.
She gave different tasks to different groups.
cleared grounds.
Ahmad, Siva and Ali painted _______________________ (what)
planted the flowers ______________________________(where)
We finished our ‘gotong- royong’ at ________________ (what time)

PICTURE 4 - CONTENT

Subject (Who/What) Verb Elaboration (What / Where / When / Who / Why/ How)
We collected the money at the school to give to the children. (what)
Teacher Rina gave donation to their teacher. (who)
We felt glad because our donation can reduce their burden.
(why)
We can see their happiness on their face.
Their teacher and the thanked to us for our donation.
children

PICTURE 5 - CLOSURE

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Subject (Who/What) Verb Elaboration (What / Where / When / Who / Why/ How)
The children send us to the bus.
We promised them to come again for the next time.
We returned back to school at ___________________ (what time)
The journey was long.
We were sleeping in the bus because ___________________________
__________________________________ (why).
We arrived at school at ________________ ( what time)
We were ________________ (how do you feel) because
_________________________________________ (why)

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