2012 PSLE Situational Writing

For this post, we'll go though the Situational Writing assignment that was posed in the 2012 English PSLE.


The question is extracted from 2008-2012 PSLE Examination Questions - English Language.


The pictures below show what Amy Tan did after she saw what happened to a boy in school.

Your Task

Imagine you saw what happened in the pictures.

Write a letter to your principal, Mr Raj, requesting him to include in the assembly talk what Amy Tan did.

You are to refer to the given information for your letter.

In your letter, include the following information:

·        the date you saw what happened

·        what Amy told the boy not to do and why

·        what Amy immediately did for the boy

·        the advice Amy gave the boy about his worksheet

·        one important value that pupils can learn from Amy

You may reorder the points. Write in complete sentences.

Note 1: A letter written to the principal would be a formal letter so the candidate must use formal language in the letter.

Model Answer

A FORMAL LETTER

In Semester 1 Worksheet 22, the pupils for the Advanced Writing classes were asked to write a formal letter.

As I want to focus on the format of a formal letter, I will not reproduce the whole question in this post. Instead, I'll just give the main points that need to be mentioned in the letter and move on from there because the focus of this post is to highlight the format of a formal letter and the tone that should be used in the PSLE.