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Topic
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What to Learn
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Assorts, Word Power & Sentences
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• Collocations and spellings
• Vocabulary: animals, household items, clothes, emotions, food
• Jumbled words and sentence formation
• Alliteration and simile
• Words with the same letter strings but different pronunciations
• Anagrams
• Prefixes and suffixes (pre-, re-, mis-, -ful, -less, -ly, -ness, -able, -ment)
• Identify base words and meanings with prefixes/suffixes
• Proverbs, idioms, and adages
• Types of sentences: simple, compound, complex
• Declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory sentences
• Complete and simple subject and predicate
• Sentence vs fragment vs run-on
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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• Synonyms
• Antonyms
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Nouns and Pronouns
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• Kinds of nouns: common, proper, collective, abstract, material
• Countable and uncountable nouns
• Subject and predicate (extended subjects)
• Determiners and quantifiers
• Pronouns: personal, relative, possessive, reflexive, demonstrative, interrogative
• Identify nouns and abstract nouns
• Singular and plural forms (regular and irregular)
• Plurals with -s, -es, -ies, -ves
• Singular and plural possessives
• Correct errors in plural and possessive nouns
• Subject and object pronouns
• Compound subjects with “I” and “me”
• Relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, that
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Verbs and Adverbs
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• Onomatopoeia
• Subject-verb agreement
• Action verbs
• Main and helping verbs
• Modal verbs
• Pronoun-verb agreement
• Regular and irregular past tense
• Forms of “to be” and “to have”
• Present, past, and future tenses
• Progressive and perfect tenses
• Past tense vs past participle
• Adverbs of manner, time, and place
• Linking words such as firstly, then, later, finally
• Identify adverbs and relative adverbs
• Adjectives vs adverbs
• Comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs
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Adjectives
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• Types: quality, quantity (definite/indefinite), demonstrative, possessive, interrogative
• Degrees of intensity (cold to hot, etc.)
• Degrees of comparison
• Identify adjectives
• Order of adjectives
• Adjectives describing kind or number
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Contractions
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• Pronoun-verb contractions
• Contractions with “not”
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Articles and Prepositions
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• Prepositions and prepositional phrases
• Common prepositions (about, above, across, after, along, around, at, behind, below, beside, by, down, during, for, from, in, inside, into, near, of, on, outside, over, through, to, under, up, with)
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Conjunctions
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• Recap of conjunctions
• Coordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Linkers such as if, although
• Formation of compound sentences
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Punctuation
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• Comma, quotation marks, apostrophe
• Beginning and end punctuation
• Commas within sentences
• Apostrophe for possession (singular and plural)
• Capitalisation rules (titles, names, days, months, places, languages, nationalities)
• Greetings and closings in letters
• Formatting and capitalising titles
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Tenses & Speech
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• Simple, continuous, and perfect tenses (present, past, future)
• Practice of tenses in texts and dialogue
• Direct and indirect speech
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Comprehension (Prose and Poetry)
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• Retrieve information from stories and anecdotes
• Read newspapers and magazines
• Check punctuation and sentence structure in texts
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Visual Interpretation
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• Understand information from pictures
• Interpret time-table formats and similar visuals
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Spoken and Written Expression
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• Understand messages and invitations
• Organise ideas into paragraphs
• Slogan writing
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Spoken and Written Expression (Advanced)
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• Situation-based language: apology, greeting, introduction, request
• Dialogue writing (complete dialogues with correct tense use)
• Diary entry writing
• Organise sentences logically and sequentially
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