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Language Study Booklet


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Contents

Thinking about Your Language Development ........................................................................................... 3

Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 3

How to use the materials ........................................................................................................................ 3

Grammar Overview ........................................................................................................................................ 4

Contents ...................................................................................................................................................... 4

English Sounds .............................................................................................................................................. 16

Sound Spelling Correspondences .............................................................................................................. 17

Spelling Practice Worksheets ................................................................................................................... 18

Handwriting Practice .................................................................................................................................. 20

Model Letters .............................................................................................................................................. 22

Irregular Verb Table .................................................................................................................................. 24


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Thinking about Your Language

Development

Introduction

This pack contains a small selection of English language awareness materials taken from a

variety of ESOL textbooks.

How to use the materials

When using the materials, try to connect the language descriptions contained in this booklet

(e.g. grammar explanations) with the English language you see and hear around you. Noticing

how language works in real communication will help you to use more accurate English and the

right language for a situation.

Think about your language development as a continual process which involves

speaking, writing,listening, reading, and thinking about the language you use.

Figure 1. Aspects of Language Development

Thinkingabout

language

Producing

language

(speaking and

writing)Language

Development

Understanding

language

(listening and

reading)

(e.g. studying

grammar)


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Grammar OverviewContents

Section 1

A. Verbs be, have and do

B. Present simple and present continuous

Section 2

A. Past simple

B. Past continuous

C. Contrasting past and present

D. Short questions to show interest

Section 3

A. Comparative and superlative adjectives

B. Large and small differences

C. Common phrases with superlatives

D. Other ways of making comparisons

Section 4

A. Present perfect simple

B. Present perfect versus past simple

C. Time words with present perfect and past

simple

D. Present perfect continuous

Section 5

A. Future plans and intentions

B. Future clauses with is, when,etc.

Section 6

A. -ed/-ing adjectives

B. The passive

C. Extreme adjectives

Section 7

A. Polite requests

B. Willfor instant decisions/responsesC. Making generalisations

Section 8

A. Defining relative clauses

B. Quantifiers (a few, a lot,etc.)

Section 9

A. Making predictions

B. Hypothetical possibilities with if

Section 10

A. Past perfect

B. Reported speech and reported questions

Section 11

A. Obligation and permissionB. Linking words (although, however,etc.)

Section 12

A. Past modal verbs (could have/shouldhave/would have)

B. Talking hypothetically about the past with

if

C. Talking hypothetically about the past and

present together


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(Source: New Cutting Edge Intermediate, S. Cunningham & P. Moor, Pearson Longman, 2005)


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Source: New Cutting Edge Intermediate, S. Cunningham & P. Moor, Pearson Longman, 2005)


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English Sounds

(Source: English File Intermediate, C. Oxenden & C. Latham- Koenig, Oxford University Press, 1999)


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Sound Spelling Correspondences

(Source: Intermediate Total English, A. Claire & J.J. Wilson, Longman, 2006)


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Spelling Practice Worksheets

This sheet is blank so you can practise words you find difficult to

spell:

1. Write the word in the 1stcolumn.

2. Lookcarefully at the word.

3. Saythe word out loud to yourself.

4. Coverthe word.

5. Writethe word in the 2ndcolumn (1stTry)

6. Checkthe word with the original

7. Use the other columns for further practice

Word 1stTry 2ndTry 3rdTry

Look

Say

Cover

Write

Check


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Word 1stTry 2ndTry 3rdTry


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Handwriting Practice

(Source: abcteach.com, accessed 29/07/2009)


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(Source: abcteach.com, accessed 29/07/2009)


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Model Letters

(Source: New Headway Intermediate, L. Soars & J. Soars, Oxford University Press, 2003)


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(Source: New Headway Intermediate, L. Soars & J. Soars, Oxford University Press, 2003)


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Irregular Verb Table

(Source: Intermediate Total English, A. Claire & J.J. Wilson, Longman, 2006)

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