SHSS END-OF-YEAR EXAMINATIONS 2008 Secondary Three Normal Academic

Answer both Section One and Section Two
Section One [30 marks]
You are advised to write between 250 and 400 words on ONE of the following topics. 

1.  "Students think better using computers."  Do you agree?

2.  Explain why a tourist would find shopping an exciting experience in Singapore.

3.  Write about an occasion when your confidence was badly shaken and how you recovered from the incident afterwards.

4.  Broken

5.  Describe the things you would experience on the first day of your End-of-Year examinations in school. 

6.  Write a story which contains the words: "Little did he know that time was not on his side to...". 

Section Two [30 marks]
Begin your answer on a fresh page. 
You are advised to write between 180 and 250 words for this section. 

You should read the information carefully and plan your answer before beginning to write. 

Under the Character Education Programme, you and your classmates visited a voluntary organisation in Singapore to better understand the needs and challenges faced by the less fortunate and contributed your service in the spirit of charity and voluntarism. 

You are nominated to speak on the learning experience of your class during the next school assembly.  Write a speech to briefly describe and share your collective experience with the school and to persuade the principal to grant you permission to conduct a fund-raising activity in school in aid of that organisation. 

In your speech, you must touch on the following points in detail:

• the name of the organisation you volunteered
• the reasons for your choice
• the efforts and the achievements of your class which benefited that organisation
• the reasons for the need to raise funds for that organisation
• the kind of fund-raising activity you wish to conduct in school

and any other matter which is relevant, meaningful and worth sharing with others. 

Remember that your speech is a talk whcih is unaccompanied by any other visual presentation.  You are expected to write in clear, accurate English and in an appropriate tone for the occasion.