Study and Master English Study Guide Grade 11
Published on 15. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-0-521-69516-9 (ISBN)
Description
Are you struggling with English as a First Additional Language? Then Study & Master English is for you. This Study Guide has been especially designed to help you master the language component of the national curriculum. Featuring: * detailed explanation of tricky language usage * lots of exercises, so you can practise before the exams * advice on how to do comprehensions, essays and summaries * example formats for letters, CVs, reports and reviews * all the answers, so you can check your own work. The Study & Master English Study Guide is an invaluable tool to help you pass your English exam with flying colours!
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
ISBN-13
978-0-521-69516-9 (9780521695169)
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Content
Learning Outcome 4: Language. Introduction. Language knowledge and skills. Exercise 1: Breaking a sentence into its parts of speech; Exercise 2: Types of nouns; Example 3: Plural nouns; Exercise 4: Nouns showing gender or size; Exercise 5: Ordering adjectives; Exercise 6: Adjectives of degree; Exercise 7: Similes and metaphors; Exercise 8: Abbreviations and acronyms; Exercise 9: Synonyms; Exercise 10: Using one word for a phrase; Exercise 11: Antonyms; Exercise 12: Irony and sarcasm; Exercise 13: Exaggerations and rhetorical questions; Exercise 14: Connotations; Exercise 15: Determiners; Exercise 16: Pronouns, and the first, second and third person; Exercise 17: Personal pronouns; Exercise 18: Possessive determiners; Exercise 19: Possessive pronouns; Exercise 20: Sound devices; Exercise 21: Demonstrative determiners; Exercise 22: Demonstrative pronouns; Exercise 23: Using a dictionary; Exercise 24: Translating, and borrowing words from other languages; Exercise 25: Understanding a word by thinking about its root word and other parts; Exercise 26: Prefixes and suffixes; Exercise 27: Prepositions; Exercise 28: Showing possession in singular nouns; Exercise 29: Showing possession in plural nouns; Exercise 30: Words in bold or italics, and underlined words; Exercise 31: Verbs and the first, second and third person; Exercise 32: Present tense and the past tense of verbs; Exercise 33: Simple and progressive aspects of regular verbs in the present tense; Exercise 34: Simple and progressive aspects of irregular verbs in the present tense; Exercise 35: Simple and progressive aspects of regular verbs in the past tense; Exercise 36: Simple and progressive aspects of irregular verbs in the past tense; Exercise 37: Proverbs and famous quotations; Exercise 38: Idioms; Exercise 39: Stereotypes and cliches; Exercise 40: Hyphens; Exercise 41: Audience; Exercise 42: Regular verbs in the present tense and the perfect aspect; Exercise 43: Irregular verbs in the present tense and the perfect aspect; Exercise 44: Purpose; Exercise 45: Regular verbs in the past tense and the perfect aspect; Exercise 46: Irregular verbs in the past tense and the perfect aspect; Exercise 47: Adverbs of manner, time, place and reason; Exercise 49: An adverb of negation - 'not'; Exercise 50: Register; Exercise 51: Style; Exercise 52: Emotive language; Exercise 53: Statements, commands and questions.