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English lessons for P1 to P6: grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, writing and listening, with pictures that move.

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  • P1 to P6
  • Grammar
  • Comprehension
  • Listening
overthe boy goes over the bridge
Prepositions: the boy goes over the bridge
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Pictures that explain English

These are real pictures from ALEC lessons. They animate on their own.

wrongHe go to school.rightHe goes to school.
Grammar: right or wrongSpot and fix the mistake
1Mei woke up early.2She packed her bag.3Then she ran to the bus stop.
Comprehension: read the passageNumbered lines, key line highlighted
bigsmallopposite meaning
Vocabulary: word pairsSame meaning or opposite
Levels and topics

P1 to P6

Topics follow the MOE English syllabus areas: listening, reading, speaking, writing, grammar and vocabulary.

English P1

To be confirmed The topics below follow the MOE syllabus. Lesson availability for this level is to be confirmed.

Topics by skill
Listening and Viewing (3)
  • Listening: sound discrimination and phonics
  • Listening: matching spoken sentences to pictures
  • Listening: sequencing pictures or events
Reading and Viewing (6)
  • Comprehension: literal retrieval of details (who, what, when, where)
  • Comprehension: inference (feelings, reasons, character traits)
  • Comprehension: sequencing events in a text
  • Comprehension: reference words (pronoun reference)
  • Comprehension cloze (passage with blanks)
  • Reading: recognising a character's habit or routine
Writing and Representing (1)
  • Writing: guided sentence completion and short sentence response
Grammar (10)
  • Articles: a, an, the
  • Determiners and quantifiers (some, a few, many, much, a little, plenty)
  • Subject pronouns, object pronouns and reflexive pronouns
  • Simple past tense (regular and irregular verbs)
  • Prepositions of place, direction and movement
  • Adjectives and comparatives/superlatives
  • Adverbs of manner, degree and frequency
  • Conjunctions and linking words (and, but, so, because, when, while, although, unless)
  • Synthesis: combining sentences into one
  • Word order in sentences
Vocabulary (4)
  • Vocabulary in context: word choice and near-synonyms
  • Collective nouns and young animal names
  • Vocabulary: verbs of action and movement
  • Vocabulary: places, settings, meal and time words

English P2

To be confirmed The topics below follow the MOE syllabus. Lesson availability for this level is to be confirmed.

Topics by skill
Listening and Viewing (2)
  • Listening: sound discrimination and phonics
  • Listening: understanding spoken instructions and passages
Reading and Viewing (7)
  • Comprehension: literal retrieval of details (who, what, when, where)
  • Comprehension: inference (feelings, reasons, character traits)
  • Comprehension: sequencing events in a text
  • Comprehension: true or false with reasons
  • Comprehension: vocabulary in context
  • Comprehension cloze (passage with blanks)
  • Visual text: notices, advertisements and posters
Speaking and Representing (2)
  • Speaking: responding to a picture or scenario
  • Speaking: punctuation and intonation of direct speech
Writing and Representing (7)
  • Punctuation: full stops, question marks, exclamation marks
  • Punctuation: capital letters and proper nouns
  • Punctuation: commas, speech marks and direct speech
  • Punctuation: apostrophes (contraction and possession)
  • Spelling: correcting misspelt words
  • Spelling: ending sounds and phonics dictation
  • Sentence writing: cause and effect with because and so
Grammar (20)
  • Determiners and quantifiers (some, a few, many, much, a little, plenty)
  • Subject pronouns, object pronouns and reflexive pronouns
  • Possessive pronouns and possessive nouns (apostrophe s)
  • Subject-verb agreement (including neither/nor, either/or and fixed phrases)
  • Simple present tense
  • Simple past tense (regular and irregular verbs)
  • Past continuous and present continuous tenses
  • Modal verbs (can, could, must, should, may, will) and verb forms after modals
  • Question forms and question tags
  • Prepositions of place, direction and movement
  • Adjectives and comparatives/superlatives
  • Adverbs of manner, degree and frequency
  • Adjective vs adverb forms (word formation)
  • Conjunctions and linking words (and, but, so, because, when, while, although, unless)
  • Synthesis: combining sentences into one
  • Word order in sentences
  • Infinitives and to-purpose constructions
  • Grammar cloze with word box
  • Editing for grammar and spelling errors
  • Nouns: plural and irregular plural forms
Vocabulary (6)
  • Vocabulary in context: word choice and near-synonyms
  • Synonyms and antonyms
  • Vocabulary: collocations, fixed phrases and prepositional phrases
  • Vocabulary: categories and classification
  • Vocabulary: onomatopoeia and sound words
  • Vocabulary: spelling and unscrambling of words

English P3

In build P3 to P6 lessons are in build now. New lessons added every week.

Topics by skill
Listening and Viewing (1)
  • Listening: sequencing pictures or events
Reading and Viewing (9)
  • Comprehension: literal retrieval of details (who, what, when, where)
  • Comprehension: inference (feelings, reasons, character traits)
  • Comprehension: sequencing events in a text
  • Comprehension: reference words (pronoun reference)
  • Comprehension: true or false with reasons
  • Comprehension: phrase location and quoted language
  • Comprehension: cause, effect and reasons
  • Comprehension cloze (passage with blanks)
  • Visual text: notices, advertisements and posters
Writing and Representing (4)
  • Punctuation: commas, speech marks and direct speech
  • Spelling: correcting misspelt words
  • Continuous writing: picture-based narrative composition
  • Continuous writing: personal narrative on a theme
Grammar (21)
  • Determiners and quantifiers (some, a few, many, much, a little, plenty)
  • Demonstratives (this, that, these, those)
  • Subject pronouns, object pronouns and reflexive pronouns
  • Relative pronouns and relative clauses (who, which, where, whom, whose)
  • Subject-verb agreement (including neither/nor, either/or and fixed phrases)
  • Simple present tense
  • Simple past tense (regular and irregular verbs)
  • Past continuous and present continuous tenses
  • Tense consistency and error correction
  • Modal verbs (can, could, must, should, may, will) and verb forms after modals
  • Question forms and question tags
  • Prepositions of place, direction and movement
  • Prepositions after verbs, adjectives and in phrases of reason
  • Adjectives and comparatives/superlatives
  • Conjunctions and linking words (and, but, so, because, when, while, although, unless)
  • Synthesis: combining sentences into one
  • Synthesis: purpose, condition and time clauses
  • Synthesis: both/neither/either and same-action structures
  • Grammar cloze with word box
  • Editing for grammar and spelling errors
  • Nouns: plural and irregular plural forms
Vocabulary (9)
  • Vocabulary in context: word choice and near-synonyms
  • Synonyms and antonyms
  • Vocabulary: word families and derived forms
  • Vocabulary: collocations, fixed phrases and prepositional phrases
  • Vocabulary: idioms, similes and expressions
  • Vocabulary: phrasal verbs
  • Vocabulary: word meanings for feelings, character and personality
  • Vocabulary: verbs of action and movement
  • Vocabulary: spelling and unscrambling of words

English P4

In build P3 to P6 lessons are in build now. New lessons added every week.

Topics by skill
Listening and Viewing (2)
  • Listening: matching spoken sentences to pictures
  • Listening: note-taking from a spoken text
Reading and Viewing (11)
  • Comprehension: literal retrieval of details (who, what, when, where)
  • Comprehension: inference (feelings, reasons, character traits)
  • Comprehension: sequencing events in a text
  • Comprehension: reference words (pronoun reference)
  • Comprehension: true or false with reasons
  • Comprehension: summarising main idea and key details
  • Comprehension: matching statements to characters
  • Comprehension cloze (passage with blanks)
  • Visual text: notices, advertisements and posters
  • Visual text: forms, timetables, tables and charts
  • Reading: sequencing pictures to a story
Speaking and Representing (1)
  • Note-taking and information transfer
Writing and Representing (4)
  • Punctuation: commas, speech marks and direct speech
  • Spelling: correcting misspelt words
  • Continuous writing: picture-based narrative composition
  • Writing: describing feelings and reactions
Grammar (21)
  • Determiners and quantifiers (some, a few, many, much, a little, plenty)
  • Demonstratives (this, that, these, those)
  • Subject pronouns, object pronouns and reflexive pronouns
  • Possessive pronouns and possessive nouns (apostrophe s)
  • Relative pronouns and relative clauses (who, which, where, whom, whose)
  • Subject-verb agreement (including neither/nor, either/or and fixed phrases)
  • Simple past tense (regular and irregular verbs)
  • Past continuous and present continuous tenses
  • Present perfect tense
  • Modal verbs (can, could, must, should, may, will) and verb forms after modals
  • Prepositions of place, direction and movement
  • Adjectives and comparatives/superlatives
  • Adverbs of manner, degree and frequency
  • Conjunctions and linking words (and, but, so, because, when, while, although, unless)
  • Synthesis: combining sentences into one
  • Synthesis: purpose, condition and time clauses
  • Synthesis: both/neither/either and same-action structures
  • Synthesis: reported and direct speech
  • Synthesis: complex sentence transformation and participle clauses
  • Grammar cloze with word box
  • Editing for grammar and spelling errors
Vocabulary (6)
  • Vocabulary in context: word choice and near-synonyms
  • Synonyms and antonyms
  • Collective nouns and young animal names
  • Vocabulary: word families and derived forms
  • Vocabulary: word meanings for feelings, character and personality
  • Vocabulary: verbs of action and movement

English P5

In build P3 to P6 lessons are in build now. New lessons added every week.

Topics by skill
Listening and Viewing (1)
  • Listening: details and main purpose
Reading and Viewing (7)
  • Comprehension: inference (feelings, reasons, character traits)
  • Comprehension: reference words (pronoun reference)
  • Comprehension: true or false with reasons
  • Comprehension: cause, effect and reasons
  • Comprehension: summarising main idea and key details
  • Comprehension cloze (passage with blanks)
  • Visual text: notices, advertisements and posters
Writing and Representing (3)
  • Spelling: correcting misspelt words
  • Continuous writing: picture-based narrative composition
  • Situational writing: emails and notes for a purpose
Grammar (18)
  • Determiners and quantifiers (some, a few, many, much, a little, plenty)
  • Demonstratives (this, that, these, those)
  • Relative pronouns and relative clauses (who, which, where, whom, whose)
  • Subject-verb agreement (including neither/nor, either/or and fixed phrases)
  • Simple past tense (regular and irregular verbs)
  • Past continuous and present continuous tenses
  • Modal verbs (can, could, must, should, may, will) and verb forms after modals
  • Question forms and question tags
  • Prepositions of place, direction and movement
  • Prepositions after verbs, adjectives and in phrases of reason
  • Adverbs of manner, degree and frequency
  • Conjunctions and linking words (and, but, so, because, when, while, although, unless)
  • Synthesis: combining sentences into one
  • Synthesis: purpose, condition and time clauses
  • Synthesis: reported and direct speech
  • Synthesis: passive and active voice
  • Grammar cloze with word box
  • Editing for grammar and spelling errors
Vocabulary (5)
  • Vocabulary in context: word choice and near-synonyms
  • Synonyms and antonyms
  • Vocabulary: word families and derived forms
  • Vocabulary: collocations, fixed phrases and prepositional phrases
  • Vocabulary: idioms, similes and expressions

English P6

In build P3 to P6 lessons are in build now. New lessons added every week.

Topics by skill
Listening and Viewing (3)
  • Listening: understanding spoken instructions and passages
  • Listening: details and main purpose
  • Listening: inferring feelings and attitudes
Reading and Viewing (11)
  • Comprehension: literal retrieval of details (who, what, when, where)
  • Comprehension: inference (feelings, reasons, character traits)
  • Comprehension: sequencing events in a text
  • Comprehension: reference words (pronoun reference)
  • Comprehension: true or false with reasons
  • Comprehension: vocabulary in context
  • Comprehension: phrase location and quoted language
  • Comprehension: summarising main idea and key details
  • Comprehension cloze (passage with blanks)
  • Visual text: notices, advertisements and posters
  • Visual text: forms, timetables, tables and charts
Speaking and Representing (1)
  • Speaking: responding to a picture or scenario
Writing and Representing (3)
  • Punctuation: commas, speech marks and direct speech
  • Continuous writing: picture-based narrative composition
  • Situational writing: emails and notes for a purpose
Grammar (15)
  • Determiners and quantifiers (some, a few, many, much, a little, plenty)
  • Subject pronouns, object pronouns and reflexive pronouns
  • Subject-verb agreement (including neither/nor, either/or and fixed phrases)
  • Modal verbs (can, could, must, should, may, will) and verb forms after modals
  • Question forms and question tags
  • Prepositions after verbs, adjectives and in phrases of reason
  • Conjunctions and linking words (and, but, so, because, when, while, although, unless)
  • Synthesis: combining sentences into one
  • Synthesis: purpose, condition and time clauses
  • Synthesis: reported and direct speech
  • Synthesis: passive and active voice
  • Synthesis: complex sentence transformation and participle clauses
  • Infinitives and to-purpose constructions
  • Grammar cloze with word box
  • Editing for grammar and spelling errors
Vocabulary (4)
  • Vocabulary in context: word choice and near-synonyms
  • Synonyms and antonyms
  • Vocabulary: collocations, fixed phrases and prepositional phrases
  • Vocabulary: idioms, similes and expressions
Test modules

The same papers as the real exam

ALEC practice follows the SEAB PSLE English format: four papers, each with its own module.

Plus: AI marking

Paper 1: Writing

Situational and continuous writing. 25 percent of the PSLE English mark.

  • Situational writing: a short piece for a purpose and reader
  • Continuous writing: a composition from a picture or topic
  • AI marking of written answers on the Plus plan
Practice available

Paper 2: Language Use and Comprehension

Booklet A (multiple choice) and Booklet B (open-ended). 45 percent.

  • Grammar, vocabulary, vocabulary cloze
  • Visual text comprehension
  • Grammar cloze, editing, comprehension cloze
  • Synthesis and transformation, comprehension (open-ended)
Coming soon

Paper 3: Listening Comprehension

20 multiple-choice questions on spoken English. 10 percent.

  • News, announcements, adverts, instructions
  • Conversations, talks and stories
Coming soon

Paper 4: Oral Communication

About 10 minutes with 5 minutes to prepare. 20 percent.

  • Reading aloud
  • Conversation about a photo

Spelling and dictation practice at school level is also coming soon. Format and weightings follow SEAB and may change; ALEC checks the SEAB and MOE pages for updates.

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