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Basic 8

Basic 8 English Language Notes

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  1. Preparing for the Term in English LanguageIn this topic you will review the speaking, reading, grammar and writing skills you built in Basic 7, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and set clear personal targets for the term.
  2. Register and Audience, Monitoring Reading, Regular Plurals, Reference Words and Types of CharactersIn this topic you will match your language to your audience, use fix-up strategies while reading, form regular plurals, use reference words to link sentences and identify types of characters in texts.
  3. Register at Work, Visualising Settings, Irregular Plurals, Substitution and Revealing CharacterIn this topic you will recognise register in different occupations, visualise settings while reading, form irregular and compound plurals, use substitution and ellipsis to link ideas, and explain how writers reveal character.
  4. Public Speaking Register, Visualising Action, Countable Nouns, Transition Signals and Types of PoemsIn this topic you will use register in speeches and announcements, visualise characters and action, use countable and uncountable nouns correctly with subject-verb agreement, link paragraphs with transition signals and identify types of poems.
  5. Asking Questions, Predicting from Clues, Relative Pronouns, Opening Hooks and Features of PoemsIn this topic you will ask and respond to different kinds of questions, predict using clues in a text, use relative pronouns to join ideas, write hooks for introductory paragraphs and identify the features of poems.
  6. Questions in Discussion, Predicting in Non-Fiction, Relative Clauses, Essay Introductions and MonologuesIn this topic you will use questions in discussions and debates, make predictions when reading non-fiction, use defining and non-defining relative clauses, write introductions for different essay types and study monologues and dialogues.
  7. Describing Familiar Places, Reading Fluently, Revising Predictions, Relative Pronoun Errors and Polishing IntroductionsIn this topic you will describe familiar places orally, read prose accurately and at a suitable pace, confirm and revise predictions in a story, correct common errors with relative pronouns and revise your introductory paragraphs.
  8. Describing Events, Phrasing in Reading, Thick and Thin Questions, Forming Adjectives and Planning NarrativesIn this topic you will describe events in order, use punctuation to guide phrasing when reading, ask thick and thin questions, form adjectives from other words and plan a personal narrative.
  9. Describing Celebrations, Reading with Expression, Questioning the Author, Using Adjectives Well and Drafting NarrativesIn this topic you will describe celebrations in vivid language, read dialogue with expression, ask questions about the author's purpose, use adjectives and intensifiers precisely and draft a personal narrative.
  10. Giving Instructions, Assessing Fluency, Inference Questions, Adjective Phrases and Revising NarrativesIn this topic you will give and follow instructions and directions, assess your own reading fluency, answer inference and evaluation questions, use adjective phrases and revise and edit your personal narrative.
  11. Turn-Taking in Groups, Non-Fiction Features, Future Verb Forms and Sensory LanguageIn this topic you will take turns effectively in group communication, identify the features of non-fiction texts, use different ways of expressing the future and use sensory language in writing.
  12. Turn-Taking in Meetings, Using Non-Fiction Texts, Future Continuous and Perfect, and Precise RevisionIn this topic you will take turns in formal meetings, use non-fiction features to study, use the future continuous and future perfect, and revise writing to make it more precise.
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