The document provides guidance for writing continuous writing essays for an exam. It includes 6 tips for continuous writing, an overview of the 5 potential essay topics in Section B of Paper 1, and tips for writing narratives. Some key points include brainstorming ideas, planning an outline, revising and editing work, choosing a topic you are knowledgeable about, and ensuring the writing has a plot, characters, and uses appropriate language. Guidance is also provided on determining tense, creating characters, using a variety of sentences, and starting and ending with the exact line provided in the essay prompt.

3. Continuous writing – at a glance
1. Read all the 5 questions given carefully
2. Pick up the topic that you are MOST
knowledgeable about
3. Brainstorm for ideas
4. Plan the outline
5. Revise and edit
6. Proofread

4. PAPER 1, SECTION B – AN OVERVIEW
1. Describe what makes you happy and explain
why.
2. Social networking has caused a lot of
problems. Do you agree?
3. Why is having a good neighbour important?

5. PAPER 1, SECTION B – AN OVERVIEW
4. Write a story about someone you know who
took a big risk and had a good result
beginning with “Everybody said that the plan
would never work. It was far too risky…”
5. ‘Honesty is always the best policy’
Describe an experience when this
was true for you

6. NARRATIVE
TIPS AND REMINDERS

7. PROBLEMS?
STUDENTS WANT TO WRITE
NARRATIVE BUT…
IDEAS
TIME
LANGUAGE
VOCABULARY

8. READ the question CAREFULLY
• Underline the key words – the OSNUN and
ESBVR
• Study the SBSECTJU / CSACTARHER (to make
sure you use the correct pronoun throughout
the essay), CSOXTETN or ATINOSUTI
• Identify the ENSTE

9. HOW TO DETERMINE THE TENSE?
• Look for keywords – ERVBS
• Reconfirm the CONTEXT / SITUATION
• ONE main = THREE types ???
• When I was looking for the lost key, he stared
me as if I looked like I had just robbed the
national bank.

10. A GOOD PLOT
• STORYLINE – natuverde, yystmer,
tdyaegr, omycde
• CONVENTIONAL – Intro, c _ _ _ _ _,
r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
• SIMPLE – not too many events
• ORIGINAL + LESSONS
• NOT A DREAM, please!

11. THE CHARACTERS
• MAIN – with name, vividly described (the
physical, the thought, the movement), not
necessarily described in a paragraph
I saw Mak Chah gently combing her grey,
curly hair while wearing a wrinkled smile on
her face; staring through the window as far as
an old’s sight could reach. Perhaps she was
reminiscing the moment when she was with
her charming late husband, as she always
described.

12. THE CHARACTERS
• MINOR – no name but better give the role,
use adverbs, adjectives etc.
• The bubbly taxi driver, the polite gentleman,
the lady with a charming smile

13. THE LANGUAGE
• Personal preferences
• Variety of sentences
• Similes, idiom pairs, proverbs
• Appropriate grammar

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35. THE WRITING
• 5 to 6 paragraphs, maximum TWO pages of
A4 paper
• PARAGRAPHS of almost the same length
• Leave a space after each paragraph
• Neat and clear handwriting
• Punctuations
• “ … ……” for dialogues

36. MOST IMPORTANTLY..
• START/END with EXACTLY the given line
• Common Errors:
Wrote the given line but added other words or even
sentences to start/end the writing (suka hati dia
je~)
Did not end with the given line at all (berangan ke
apa?)
Change the nouns/pronouns

37. EXAMPLE: SPM 2014
• Write a story about a fisherman
beginning with “The wind blew
strongly. Out at sea…”
• That evening, the wind blew
strongly. Out at sea…

38. EXAMPLE: SPM 2014
• Write a story about a fisherman
beginning with “The wind blew
strongly. Out at sea…”
• It was a breezy Sunday morning
with the birds chirping in the sky.
(confident je dia~) The wind blew
strongly. Out at sea…

39. EXAMPLE: SPM 2011
• Write a story that ends with “They
looked at each other and smiled
meaningfully”
• ...They looked at each other
meaningfully and that was how the
meeting ended.

40. EXAMPLE: SPM 2011
• Write a story that ends with “They
looked at each other and smiled
meaningfully”
• They looked at each other and
smiled meaningfully. Both of them
lived happily ever after.

41. I wish I could go back in time

42. He saw the strangest thing…

43. I received a voice message…

44. I was glad I was back to normal

45. Ending
• “I realised that every word she said was true”

46. Ending
• He left and close the door behind him quietly

47. Ending
• She cried tears of joy and whispered the
words, Thank You

48. Begin
• The wind was gentle but chilly

49. SPM 2010
• Write a story beginning with “It had
been raining all day”

50. SPM 2011
• Write a story that ends with “They
looked at each other and smiled
meaningfully”

51. SPM 2012
• Write a story beginning with
“The teacher walked into the
classroom. It was the first
period…”

52. SPM 2013
• Write a story that ends with “..and
so I became a better person”

53. SPM 2014
• Write a story about a fisherman
beginning with “The wind blew
strongly. Out at sea…”

54. 2015 SBP
• Write a story about how thankful
you were to your neighbour, ending
with
“No words could describe how
grateful I was”

55. SPM 2015
• Write a story about someone you know who
took a big risk and had a good result
beginning with “ Everybody said that the plan
would never work. It was far too risky…”

56. SPM 2016
• Write about your experience helping
Puan Ramlah, an elderly who lives
alone. End your story with “…I learnt a
lot about myself by helping Puan
Ramlah”

57. Trial 2017 Perlis
• Write about your experience as a
volunteer helping a charity home. End
your story with “.. I shed tears of joy
seeing the fruit of my labour.”

58. Trial 2017 SBP
• Write a story about a man who
came home one day after a long
day at work. End your story with:
“.. he prayed to God and hoped that
the moment would last”

59. Trial 2017 Kelantan
• Write about a girl who had lost her
parents but managed to achieve success.
Begin your story with: “Amelia’s plan
shattered into a million pieces when…”

60. A REFLECTION
Write about your experience as a volunteer
helping a charity home. End your story with “.. I
shed tears of joy seeing the fruit of my labour.”
• WHO are the characters?
SITUATION/CONTEXT? KEYWORDS?
• Be FOCUSED – NOT describing too much on
the journey or preparation before going there

61. A reflection: LABOUR
MEANING – hardwork, (great, important,
meaningful, visible) effort that left impact
Common errors –
labour = listening to their problems, fed
them, went home. (??????)
Fruit = cried, said she liked you, hugged you
before you left. (??????)

62. A reflection: Elaborate
• “ We all worked on (X) the charity home”
• “ We continued working on (X) the charity
home”
• Worked on?? How?? – painted the wall,
trimmed the decorative plants, cleared the
weeds, repaired the bulbs, changed the
curtains, built the playhouse etc.

63. MODEL EXCERPT I
I remember how thrilled I was when Dad built
me a playhouse back when I was merely four. That
was my very own playhouse. Unlike the children here,
we built it together and I volunteered to focus on the
decorating part single-handedly for the completed
one to be shared by all. It was simply overwhelming
to see how this single wooden playhouse could bring
so much joy and pleasure to all these precious little
hearts.

64. MODEL EXCERPT I
Just the night before, I was thinking about
the decoration and planning to put all of my
bunnies and teddies inside the playhouse
together with my brother’s toy trucks and
robots. Those were the gifts from our parents
that always brought us back to our childhood
years. We decided to give them all to the
children since Mom always says the best gifts
that we could give to others are the ones we
love the most.

65. MODEL EXCERPT I
So, now was the children’s turn to
treasure those little gifts from us. Being fully in
charge of the playhouse setting, it took me
roughly two hours of putting my ideas into
something visible and most importantly,
enjoyable. Some were busy playing that they
did not want to waste their turn while we were
leaving. From the bus window, I looked from
afar and I shed tears of joy seeing the fruit of
my labour.

66. MODEL EXCERPT II
Today was the day. Having no idea of how
would this charity home be like before this, I just
followed our group leader making our way
towards the cosy lobby. A short meeting with the
owner, Pn. Rashidah, made us clear of what we
were going to do on that day. I was assigned to
attend to this grandmother in her late 70’s, Nek
Chah. Losing her husband a year ago due to a fatal
road crash, she was left all alone and sent to the
charity home by her neighbour early this year.

67. MODEL EXCERPT II
For this particular grandmother, I was told
that she had always wanted her room to be
painted all green. Missing my late grandmother
who dedicated her life to gardening, I
volunteered to do the painting specially for Nek
Chah. Idea! Just like the one I came across in
the magazine, seafoam and mint green were
the colours I chose for the walls and the
window frames would have a shade of pine
green to highlight a colour contrast effect.

68. MODEL EXCERPT II
Not leaving the wall empty, I decided to
put on a huge rectangular frame of red roses
painting; the one that I took one hour and a
half to choose among other paintings back
when I was visiting Melaka. Since I had doubts
on my decorating talent, I did casually seek for
Nek Chah’s approval for every move I made to
the furniture

69. MODEL EXCERPT II
The day was about to end. After the break, I
went inside just to see if Nek Chah genuinely liked my
so called art of painting and decorating. I took a sneak
peek through the loosely shut door of her room. There
she was, standing right in front of the frame with a
wrinkled yet honest smile on her lips. Honoured. I took
that as a huge recognition from her for my little effort.
The moment she sat on the bed with the new pink
duvet I set specially for her, I entered the room slowly.

70. MODEL EXCERPT II
As a sign of departing, I shook hands with
her before she blew a gentle kiss on my cheek,
just the way my late grandmother always did. I
asked her to try lying in the bed with her eyes
closed which she agreed to right away. “It
couldn’t be better than this. I can’t wait to start
dreaming,” she said. Indeed, it was her new
pleasure and I shed tears of joy seeing the fruit
of my labour.

71. MODEL EXCERPT III
It was heart-wrenching to even just imagine
how did they endure their previous nights without the
lamp light and with just little to feed on while I was
sighing for the piled up homework which I purposely
delayed over the late night online games. It had been
two weeks since the thunderstorm struck the small
town and affected almost all of the bulbs at this
home. Going into my poetic mood, I suddenly
remembered this saying which stated ‘the darkness of
the night is meant for us to enjoy the sparkle of the
twinkling stars’.