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Reading and listening for meaning: original mixed practice

You have met each skill alone, and now the questions arrive mixed together in one text.

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  1. Text 1: notice (questions 1 to 5)
  2. Text 2: conversation (questions 6 to 9)
  3. Text 3: passage (questions 10 and 11)
  4. Review item (question 12)
  5. If you got these wrong

This set mixes the five skills from reading and listening for meaning: locating a requirement, reading negatives, following corrected details, linking pronouns and reviewing a transcript. All texts are invented for practice.

Cover the answer, write your own in Malay, then open the working. A short answer in Malay is enough unless a question says otherwise. For audio, use the original listening practice player or ask someone to read the conversation aloud.

Text 1: notice (questions 1 to 5)

Pertandingan Pidato (contoh rekaan) Kelab Bahasa akan mengadakan pertandingan pidato pada hari Khamis, 5 Jun, di dewan sekolah. Peserta mesti mendaftar dengan Puan Zaitun selewat-lewatnya pada hari Selasa. Pidato tidak boleh melebihi tiga minit. Peserta tidak perlu membawa teks. Tajuk belum diberitahu dan akan diumumkan pada hari pertandingan.

1. Dengan siapakah peserta mesti mendaftar?

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Signal word: mesti mendaftar dengan. Answer: Puan Zaitun.

2. Bilakah peserta mesti mendaftar selewat-lewatnya?

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Selewat-lewatnya introduces the deadline. Answer: pada hari Selasa.

3. Berapa lamakah pidato boleh berlangsung?

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Tidak boleh melebihi tiga minit means three minutes is the limit. Answer: tiga minit paling lama.

4. Apakah yang peserta tidak perlu bawa?

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The negative tidak perlu applies to membawa teks. Answer: teks.

5. Adakah peserta sudah tahu tajuk pidato?

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Belum diberitahu means not yet told. Answer: Belum. Tajuk akan diumumkan pada hari pertandingan.

Text 2: conversation (questions 6 to 9)

Sofea: Amir, filem itu mula pukul tujuh, bukan? Amir: Bukan, pukul tujuh suku. Tiket di laman web tersilap tulis. Kita jumpa di depan panggung. Sofea: Baik. Saya naik LRT. Awak? Amir: Saya naik kereta dengan ayah saya. Dia akan menjemput saya selepas filem, jadi awak boleh pulang dengan kami. Sofea: Terima kasih, tetapi abang saya sudah janji menjemput saya.

6. Pukul berapakah filem bermula?

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Sofea says seven, Amir corrects with Bukan, pukul tujuh suku. Answer: 7.15 (tujuh suku).

7. Bagaimanakah Amir pergi ke panggung?

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Saya naik kereta dengan ayah saya. Sofea is the one on the LRT. Answer: dengan kereta bersama ayahnya.

8. Siapakah yang akan menjemput Sofea?

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Sofea declines the lift: abang saya sudah janji menjemput saya. Answer: abangnya.

9. Siapakah dia dalam ayat “Dia akan menjemput saya selepas filem”?

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The nearest noun is ayah saya in Amir’s previous sentence, and it also fits the offer awak boleh pulang dengan kami. Answer: ayah Amir.

Text 3: passage (questions 10 and 11)

Puan Salmah dan anak perempuannya, Dina, membuka kedai kuih. Beliau memasak kuih di dapur manakala Dina menjaga kaunter. Kuih itu habis dijual sebelum tengah hari, jadi mereka menutup kedai awal.

10. Siapakah yang memasak kuih?

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Beliau is the respectful form for the senior person, and manakala Dina sets Dina as the other person. Answer: Puan Salmah.

11. Mengapakah mereka menutup kedai awal?

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Jadi marks the result. Answer: kerana kuih sudah habis dijual sebelum tengah hari.

Review item (question 12)

12. A student answered Question 6 with “pukul tujuh”. Name the error type and write the reason in Malay.

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Error type: first detail instead of final. Reason: Saya patut pilih pukul tujuh suku kerana Amir berkata bukan pukul tujuh, tetapi pukul tujuh suku.

If you got these wrong

Where you slippedLikely causeGo back to
Questions 1 to 3Chose a nearby detail, not the one the signal word introduceslocating a requirement
Questions 4 and 5Missed tidak perlu or belumnegatives and their keywords
Questions 6 to 8Kept the old detail after a correctionconversation with a corrected detail
Questions 9 to 11Linked the pronoun to the wrong nounpronouns and referents
Question 12Could not name or explain the slipexplaining a choice after review

Record every wrong answer with its error type in the mistake log. The summary selection studio helps when you want to practise picking the important detail from a longer text.

If the log shows one error type again and again, our teachers can build short drills around it in online one-to-one Malay tuition.

Questions people ask

Should I do the whole set in one sitting?

Do it in two sittings of six questions. Read each text first, answer without opening the working, then check. Stopping halfway gives you time to log mistakes before the second half, which makes the second half more useful.

How do I practise the listening items?

Ask someone to read each conversation aloud once while you take notes, or use the original listening player. Then read the transcript and compare. If you read the transcript first, treat the set as reading practice only.

Are these questions copied from past papers?

No. Every passage, name and question here is original and invented for practice. For the exact format and assessment of your own syllabus, check the Cambridge subject page for your code and year.

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