Writing dramatic narration for SPM English Paper 1, section B:

When we plan to write a narrative essay for the coming

SPM examination , English Paper 1, section B: Continuous

Writing, we have to bear in mind of making our essay

exciting and impressive. The first thing  to do is study the

question carefuly, understand the scope of the question,

then draw a rough plot from the beginning , rising action,

climax, falling action, and resolution. 

Then we should decide the theme, moral values, characters

and scenes of events. The theme of the story is the central

message and the moral values are the lessons that we

learn from the story. In order to make our story alive, name

the settings/places of our story, then descibe the scene of

the place. 

Besides that, name the characters and reveal their

characteristics by writing about their actions, reactions,

thoughts, speechs and what other characters say about

them. We also have to elaborate the sequence of events

and incidents, what happen, how did it happen, why did it

happen, who was involved and when did it happen? 

Please don’t forget to descibe the scene, characters, events

and incidents using our 5 senses, what we see, hear, touch,

smell and taste and add appropriate adjectives and

adverbs. We can also use phrases, idioms, sayings or

expressions to make our narration lively and impressive

too. 

The marking scheme for countinuous writing will be based

on impression, as its holistc marking, which scoring

involves the assignning of a single score to a piece of

writing based on a “whole” reading of the essay.  The

examiner will fit the candidate’s response to the most

appropriate band, by refering to upper and lower bands and

the marks depend on the number of criteria that are found

in the script that matches the band. 

Please make sure the language used is accurate, use

varied sentence structures (simple, compound, complex,

compound/complex sentences), and the use of vocabulary

is correct, prescise and wide. Write well-planned

paragraphs, unified and appropriately linked, and make

sure the tone and mood suites the story creating interest,

being arousing and sustained throughout the story.

P/S: There are two links below as examples of websites

where we can find idioms and meaningful phrases.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/index.htmlhttp://www.englishclub.com/ref/Sayings/index.htm