SET 5

SULIT

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SECTION A

You are advised to spend about 40 minutes on this question.

Anda dicadangkan menjawab soalan ini dalam masa 40 minit.
You received a letter from your friend. She is asking for your opinion on getting a
present for her father on Fathers Day. Write a reply to her letter using the notes given
below.
NOTES

Suggestions:
- Necktie - look smart, can wear in the office
- Book - reading during free time, widen knowledge
buy card - write Happy Fathers Day
wrap beautifully

When writing your letter:

use all the notes given.
elaborate on the given notes to make it interesting.
Make sure it is not less than 120 words.
(30 marks)

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SULIT

SECTION B
You are advised to spend about 30 minutes on this question.
Anda dicadangkan menjawab soalan ini dalam masa 30 minit.
Read the passage below and answer the question that follows.
There is no doubt that eco-tourism is big business. Conservative estimates suggest
that eco-tourism now accounts for as much as 20% of all tourism. Increasingly, tourists
want to visit areas of significant natural beauty without causing any damage to the
environment. However, how can places of great beauty, supporting exotic and often
fragile wildlife and fauna, stay unspoiled once tourists arrive in any great numbers?
Commercial-scale tourism requires services and facilities that ultimately change
and harm the natural balance in the places tourists visit. Many holiday companies are
more than happy to label a holiday an environmentally friendly one - even when it is not.
Eco-tourism is about holidays that are completely sustainable. Environmentalists are also
concerned that eco-tourism threatens the very thing it is meant to be protecting.
Scientists worry that eco-tourism and wild animals simply do not mix. Many studies
suggest that eco-tourism may now be harming the very animals it seeks to help.
Taken from Just English April 2006
Write a summary on eco-tourism that might cause damage to the wildlife:

in continuous writing form.

in one paragraph.
in your own words as far as possible without changing the original meaning.
in not more than 60 words, including the 10 words given below.

Begin with:
Eco-tourism creates business even though it tends to neglect the

(10 marks)

SECTION C
You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on this question on this question.
Anda dicadangkan menjawab soalan ini dalam masa 20 minit.
Novels:
1. Potato people
2. Robinson Crusoe
3. The Phantom of Opera
4. The Prisoner of Zenda
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Angela Wright
Daniel Dafoe
Gaston Leroux
Robert Louise Stevenson
Anthony Hope Hawkins

Based on one of the novels above, write on one of the following characteristic:
i)
ii)

courage
determination

Give evidence from the novel to support your answer.

Your response should be:

in not less than 50 words

in continuous writing form
(10 marks)

KERTAS SOALAN TAMAT

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MARKING CRITERIA FOR SECTION A GUIDED WRITING BAND DESCRIPTORS
BAND

MARKS

EXCELLENT

25 30

DESCRIPTORS

CREDIT

19 24

ACHIEVEMENT

13 18

WEAK

7 12

VERY WEAK

16

Task fulfilled with ideas and details welldeveloped and well-organised.

Language is accurate with few minor errors and
first draft slips.
Varied sentence structures are used effectively
to convey meaning.
Vocabulary is apt and widely used.
Accurate use of mechanics of writing.
Interest of the reader is aroused and sustained.
Task fulfilled with ideas and details developed
and organised.
Language is largely accurate with some serious
and minor errors.
Simple and compound sentence structures are
accurate.
Vocabulary is wide enough but lacks precision.
Almost always accurate use of spelling,
punctuation and paragraphing.
Interest of the reader is aroused but not
sustained.
Task fulfilled with ability to develop some ideas
but lacks details; ideas adequately organised.
Language is sufficiently accurate with frequent
serious errors.
Simple and compound sentence structures are
attempted.
Vocabulary is sufficient to convey meaning.
Some errors in mechanics of writing.
Task partially fulfilled with ideas less developed;
ideas lacking organisation.
Language is barely accurate with frequent
serious errors that hamper reading.
Vocabulary is limited.
Serious errors in mechanics of writing.
Task hardly fulfilled; ideas lack cohesion.
High density of errors; meaning is hardly
conveyed.

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SECTION B
Content: 5 marks
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

natural beauty and wildlife and fauna

causing damage to environment
tourism creates business
holiday companies gain good income
protecting the wildlife

Any 5 content points would warrant a maximum of 5 marks.

Language: 5 marks (see marking band overleaf)

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MARKING CRITERIA FOR SECTION B SUMMARY
BAND

MARKS

EXCELLENT

DESCRIPTORS

CREDIT

ACHIEVEMENT

WEAK

VERY WEAK

Marked ability to use own words

Language is accurate
: use of simple and compound sentences
: appropriate linkers
: use of correct grammar
Accurate spelling and punctuation
First draft slips
No lifting of sentences
No irrelevant details
Ability to use own words
Language is largely accurate
: use of simple and compound sentences
: appropriate linkers
: use of correct grammar
Spelling and punctuation largely accurate
Some minor errors
Almost no lifting of sentences
No irrelevant details

Attempts to use own words

Language is sufficiently accurate
: use of simple and compound sentences
(majority of simple sentences)
: some use of linkers
: some serious grammatical errors
Some serious errors in spelling and punctuation
Some irrelevant details

No attempt to use own words

Frequent serious errors in grammar, spelling
and punctuation
Linkers hardly used
Wholesale lifting of text material
Irrelevant details

High density of errors fractured syntax

Total lifting of text material, i.e. transcript
Irrelevant details

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MARKING CRITERIA FOR SECTION C NOVEL BAND DESCRIPTORS
BAND

MARKS

EXCELLENT

9 10

DESCRIPTORS

CREDIT

78

ACHIEVEMENT

56

34
WEAK

VERY WEAK

12

Requirements of task fulfilled

Ideas and details well-developed, well
organised with evidence from text
Varied sentence structures (simple and
compound)
Wide and apt vocabulary
Accurate use of language
Accurate mechanics of writing
Requirements of task fulfilled
Ideas and details largely developed, organised
and supported with evidence from text
Varied sentence structures (simple and
compound)
Vocabulary wide enough
Largely accurate use of language
Largely accurate mechanics of writing
Requirements of task fulfilled
Ideas and details sufficiently developed with
some organisation and supported with some
evidence from text
Sentences structures lack variety (simple
structures dominate)
Adequate vocabulary used
Sufficiently accurate use of language
Fairly accurate mechanics of writing
Requirements of task partially fulfilled
Ideas lack development and organisation with
minimal textual support mere narration
Sentence structures mostly simple with errors
that hamper reading
Vocabulary limited
Language is barely accurate with errors that
hamper reading
Inconsistent mechanics of writing
Requirements of task hardly fulfilled
Hardly any development of relevant ideas or
textual support
High density of errors; blurring evidence, lacks
cohesion
Vocabulary very limited

Mechanics of writing numerous errors