P6 List of Vocabulary words taken from the Top School CA1 papers 2018

As I wait patiently for news from my P6 2018 students on their PSLE results, I thought I should blog about what we have been doing in class this month to prepare for the PSLE 2019.

This month we have worked on 2 compositions – Being Afraid and An Argument as well as 2 Formal Situational Writing pieces. We have also started work on the 2018 Top school papers.

To facilitate the ever increasing challenging vocabulary words that appear in the examination papers, I have given my students a 10-page list of Phrasal Verbs for them to learn slowly. They are then asked to make sentences with these phrasal verbs. I am hoping to see an improvement when they come across phrasal verbs during paper 2 exercises. I will certainly test them during our Paper 2 Intensives/workshops in December!

This week, I have also handed out the the CA1 Vocabulary list to them. They will be tested from the list of words over Term 2 which will begin in January for us. I have omitted the Editing words section as they already have their list of Phrasal verbs and I do not want to overload them.

Here is the list below. I hope it will come in handy for you, even while you enjoy your end-of-the-year holiday break 🙂

2018 P6 CA1 Vocabulary

Nanyang Primary School

1. incurred – to experience something, usually something unpleasant, as a result of actions you have taken
2. concurred – to agree or have the same opinion
3. infer – guess or conclude (something) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.
4. defer – put off (an action or event) to a later time; postpone
5. confer -have discussions; exchange opinions
6. clatter – a continuous rattling sound as of hard objects falling or striking each other.
7. incorrigible – of a person or their behaviour not able to be changed or reformed
8. invincible – too powerful to be defeated or overcome

CHIJ St Nicholas

1. elaborately – in a detailed and carefully arranged manner
2. folly – lack of good sense; foolishness
3. filth – disgusting, dirt
4. frivolously – in a silly way that does not take something seriously
5. boisterously – noisy, energetic and rough
6. subsided – a condition that becomes less strong or extreme
7. descended – to go or to come down

ACS Junior

1. commended – to formally praise someone for something
2. alleviate – to make something such as a pain or problem less severe
3. recuperate – to become well again after an illness
4. blitz – a fast, violent attack on a town, city, etc., usually with bombs dropped from aircraft
5. glitch – a sudden, usually temporary malfunction or fault of equipment
6. vague – of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning
7. foreboding – a feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension

Rosyth

1. evoke – bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind
2. provoke – deliberately make (someone) annoyed or angry.
3. ideal – a person or thing regarded as perfect
4. favourable – expressing approval
5. ambiguous – not having a clear meaning
6. tranquilisers – a medicinal drug taken to reduce tension or anxiety
7. anaesthetic – a substance that induces insensitivity to pain

Nan Hua

1. inaccessible – unable to be reached
2. compelled – force or oblige someone to do something
3. appal – great dismay or horrify
4. appease – pacify or placate someone
5. unanimously – with the agreement of all involved