UPSR TIPS: GIVING OPINIONS

UPSR TIPS (Paper 1 Section B)

Giving opinions on characters / story / action.

For

RELP (PLC) Teacher Sharing Session

SK (Felda) Redong

One of the questions in the Penataran UPSR 2016 sample set, asking pupils to give their opinion on the action of the characters.

(e) Ramli and his wife emptied the box of worms onto Ujang’s head. Was the action correct? Why? __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________

[ 2 marks ]

So these are few words / phrases for you to answer the question.

            STATEMENT:

            Ramli and his wife emptied the box of worms onto Ujang’s head.

            QUESTION 1:

            Was the action correct?

            SUGGESTED ANSWER:

            What Ramli and his wife did was wrong.

            QUESTION 2:

            Why?

            SUGGESTED ANSWER:

            It is because ______________________________________________

·         the action does not show

	Bravery
	Enthusiasm
P	Kind-heartedness
	Honesty
P	Love and Affection
	Loyalty
	Peace-Loving
	Perseverance
	Sacrificing for Other
	Self-Confidence
	Sincerity
	Strong Belief

            COMPLETE ANSWER:

            Ramli and his wife emptied the box of worms onto Ujang’s head. Was the action correct?     Why?

            What Ramli and his wife did was wrong. It is because the action does not show       kind-heartedness, love and effection to his friend.

On the contrary, these words (moral values) can be use to describe positive actions too. The keyword here lies in the first few words of your answer. Instead of having to memorize different kind of adjectives or morals, use these words instead.

This is an example of positive opinion(s) on an action.

(e) Syafiq Elias helped the old man to cross the road even though he was late for school. Was it the right the to do? Why? __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________

[ 2 marks ]

            STATEMENT:

            Syafiq helped the old man to cross the road even though he was late for school.

            QUESTION 1:

            Was it the right thing to do?

            SUGGESTED ANSWER:

            What Syafiq did was right.

            QUESTION 2:

            Why?

            SUGGESTED ANSWER:

            It is because ______________________________________________

§  the action shows 

	Bravery
	Enthusiasm
P	Kind-heartedness
	Honesty
	Love and Affection
	Loyalty
	Peace-Loving
	Perseverance
P	Sacrificing for Other
	Self-Confidence
	Sincerity
	Strong Belief

            COMPLETE ANSWER:

            Syafiq Elias helped the old man to cross the road even though he was late for school. Was it            the right the to do? Why?

            What Syafiq did was right. It is because the action shows kind-heartednessand     willing to sacrifice for others.

I hope these simple tips will help or at least gave you some ideas on how to help your pupils to answer this type of questions.

Here are the definition(s) of the moral values

1. Bravery

Bravery is face (something involving possible unfortunate or disastrous consequences) or endure (as hardship) use with self-control and mastery of tear and often with a particular objective in vie. Bravery is able to meet danger or endure pain or hardship without giving in to fear. Bravery is arising from or suggestive or mastery of fear and intelligent use of faculties especially under duress. (Webster: 1981 p.269).

2. Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause of subject, something that inspires or is pursued or regarded with ardent zeal or fervor. Enthusiast is a person who is or believes to himself to be inspired or possessed by divine power or spirit, or a person who is visionary, extravagant, or excessively zealous in his religious views or emotion. While enthusiastic is relating to enthusiasm or inspired preaching. Enthusiasm is having an ardent, reception, responsive, temperament or tending to give oneself wholly to whatever engages one’s interest or liking. (Webster: 1981 p.757).

3. Kindhearted

Kind is the equivalent of what has been offered or received. Kind is applying more often to the disposition to sympathy and helpfulness. Kindly is stressing more the expression of the sympathetic, helpful nature, mood or impulse (a kind person with a kindly interest in the problem of other). Kindhearted is having sympathetic nature: Humane, compassionate. Kindheartedness is the quality or state of being kindhearted. (Webster: 1981 p.1243).

4. Honesty

Honesty is estimable character; fairness and straight forwardness of conduct or adherence to the fact. Honesty is freedom from subterfuge or duplicity, truthfulness, and sincerity. (Webster: 1981 p.1086).

5. Love and Affection

Love is fell affection for. Love is a communications code word for the letter. Love is fell referent adoration for (God). (Webster: 1981 p.1340). Affection is action of affection or state of being affected. Affection is kind feeling tender attachment: love, good, will. Affection is a strong emotion or passion (as anger, fear or hatred); feeling aspect of consciousness (as in pleasue or displeasure); to bend of mind: feeling or natural impulse swaying the mind: propensity, disposition. (Webster: 1981 p.35).

6. Loyalty

Loyalty is loyal manner. Loyalness is the quality, state, or an instance of being loyal; fidelity or tenacious adherence. Loyal is faithful and the devoted to a private person; faithful or tenacious in adherence to s cause, ideal, practice or custom. (Webster: 1981 p.1342)

7. Peace-Loving

Peace is harmony in human or personal relation. A mental or spiritual condition marked by freedom from disturbance or oppressive thoughts or emotion. (Webster: 1981 p.1660) Loving word is from love, a lover section or attitude. (Webster: 1981 p.1340)

 8. Perseverance

Perseverance is the action or the fact or an instance of persevering, continued or steadfast pursuit or prosecution of an undertaking or aim. Perseverance is the condition or power of persevering, persistence in the pursuit of objectives or prosecution of any project. Perseverant is able or willing to persevere. (Webster: 1981 p 1685)

9. Sacrificing for Other

Sacrifice is something consecrated and offered to God or to a divinity or an immolated victim or an offering of any kind laid on an altar or otherwise presented in the way of religious, thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation. (Webster: 1981 p.1996)

10. Self-Confidence

Self-Confidence is Confident in one self. Self-confident is confident of one’s own strength or ability. (Webster: 1981 p.2059)

11. Sincerity

Sincerity is the quality or state of being sincere; an expression of a sincere feeling. (Webster: 1981 p.2122)

12. Strong Belief

Strong is able to bear or endure; able to with-stand stress or violence; having or exibiting moral or intelectual force, endurence or vigor. (Webster: 1981 p.2265). Belief is a state or habit of mind in which trust, confidence, reliance, is place in some person or thing. Belief is something believed, statement or body of statement held by the advocates of any class of views; conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon, especially when based on an examination of the ground for accepting it as true or real. (Webster: 1981 p.200)


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