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Language Study Booklet

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.

Producing language (speaking and writing)

Language Development

Understanding language (listening and reading)

Thinking about language (e.g. studying grammar) Figure 1. Aspects of Language Development 3

Grammar Overview Contents Section 1 A. Verbs be, have and do B. Present simple and present continuous

A. B. C. D.

Section 3 Comparative and superlative adjectives Large and small differences Common phrases with superlatives Other ways of making comparisons

Section 2 A. B. C. D.

A. B. C. D.

Past simple Past continuous Contrasting past and present Short questions to show interest Section 4 Present perfect simple Present perfect versus past simple Time words with present perfect and past simple 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. Will for instant decisions/responses C. 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 11 A. Obligation and permission B. Linking words (although, however, etc.)

Section 10 A. Past perfect B. Reported speech and reported questions Section 12 A. Past modal verbs (could have/should have/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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(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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(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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(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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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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(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:

Say

1. Write the word in the 1st column. 2. Look carefully at the word.

Cover

3. Say the word out loud to yourself. 4. Cover the word.

Write

5. Write the word in the 2nd column (“1st Try”) 6. Check the word with the original

Check

7. Use the other columns for further practice Word

1st Try

Look

2nd Try

3rd Try

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Word

1st Try

2nd Try

3rd Try

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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)

Robin Ashton 2009

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