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Upper Secondary Comprehensive English Curriculum
Preparing for Success in National Exams
The Upper Secondary years are pivotal for your child’s academic journey, especially as they prepare for the challenges of national exams like the O-Levels. Our Upper Secondary Comprehensive English Curriculum is designed to equip students with the essential skills and strategies needed to excel in both written and oral assessments. This program provides a structured approach to refining language proficiency, improving writing techniques, and mastering critical exam strategies – ensuring your child is fully prepared to succeed in their national exams and future academic pursuits. We offer:
Our comprehensive approach ensures that students not only meet the requirements of the O-Level exams but exceed them, building the confidence and skills they need for academic excellence.
For the full curriculum details:
The Upper Secondary English curriculum is built around the core components required for comprehensive exam preparation. These components are:
Students will explore a diverse range of writing formats. Through targeted practice, they will develop key skills to produce clear, cohesive, and compelling pieces, fully aligned with exam requirements.
Situational Writing: Students will learn to write in various formats suited for specific purposes. These formats include:
Article Responses: Students respond to articles with thoughtful analysis and structured responses.
Formal and Informal Emails/Letters: Writing emails or letters with appropriate tone, style, and language, depending on the formality of the situation.
Proposals: Learning how to write persuasive proposals to suggest solutions or improvements.
Speeches: Crafting speeches that are both engaging and informative, with clear arguments.
Reports: Writing reports that summarize key points, often in professional or academic contexts.
Students will explore a diverse range of writing formats. Through targeted practice, they will develop key skills to produce clear, cohesive, and compelling pieces, fully aligned with exam requirements.
Continuous Writing: Students will practice writing essays of various types, including:
Argumentative Essays: Presenting arguments with supporting evidence to persuade or inform.
Descriptive Essays: Using vivid imagery and sensory details to describe scenes, objects, or events.
Discursive Essays: Exploring an issue from different perspectives, discussing pros and cons before drawing a conclusion.
Expository Essays: Explaining a topic in a structured, logical manner.
Personal Recount Essays: Sharing personal experiences in a reflective and engaging way.
Personal Reflective Essays: Writing about personal insights, reflections, or experiences.
Hybrid Essays: Combining elements from different types of essays to address complex prompts.
The second part of the curriculum emphasizes improving students’ language skills in areas such as vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and synthesis.
Visual Text Comprehension: Students will analyze and interpret visual texts, such as advertisements, cartoons, and images, and respond to questions based on them.
Comprehension: Developing the ability to understand and analyze written texts, both factual and inferential.
Summary Writing: Teaching students how to summarize key ideas from longer passages or articles into concise, coherent summaries.
Synthesis and Transformation: Fostering the ability to paraphrase, rephrase, and synthesize information, while maintaining meaning and context.
Comprehension Open-ended: Training students to respond to open-ended questions with detailed, analytical answers based on the reading material.
Oral communication is another critical aspect of the Upper Secondary English Curriculum, with a focus on building students’ ability to communicate clearly and effectively in planned responses and spoken interaction.
Planned Responses: Students will practice responding to prompts in a structured and thoughtful manner, improving their clarity, coherence, and fluency during oral assessments.
Spoken Interaction: The oral component includes targeted practice on commonly tested oral topics, helping students familiarise themselves with the range of questions they might encounter. Students will be guided through structured answering frameworks to respond confidently and clearly. With focused exercises, they will develop the ability to think quickly and express their ideas effectively under exam conditions.
In Singapore, English is a mandatory subject in the scoring systems such as L1R5, L1R4, and ELR2B2. A high score in English can significantly influence a student’s overall aggregate score and improve their chances of being admitted to competitive Junior Colleges (JCs), Millennia Institute, and polytechnics.
At WRITERS AT WORK, we recognize the importance of excelling in English to maximize your results and secure a brighter academic future. Our Upper Secondary English tuition programmes are specifically designed to help students develop the skills they need to excel in their exams, with a focus on mastering the language, sharpening writing abilities, and preparing for the rigors of national assessments.
Making Learning Enjoyable and Effective
We are committed to making the learning process both enjoyable and effective, ensuring that each student not only masters the art of writing but also gains the confidence to use these skills in a variety of contexts. Our structured and comprehensive approach empowers students to apply their knowledge with confidence, whether in their exams or beyond.
Help your child unlock their full potential with unmatched confidence in expressing themselves through the English language. By joining WRITERS AT WORK, your child will gain the essential skills to excel in their exams and beyond—setting them on the path to success in both their academic and professional futures.
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