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This book provides a complete set of answers to the exercises in "So You Really Want to Learn English 2". "So You Really Want to Learn English 2" is suitable for pupils ages 11-12 working towards Key Stage 3 and Common Entrance at 13+ and provides a lively and captivating English course which features reading passages to stimulate young minds but which also covers the important elements of spelling, grammar and punctuation. This is the second part in the "So You Really Want to Learn English" course. This textbook can be used by teachers in the classroom as well as parents and home schoolers looking for an additional learning aid for home teaching. This book draws reading passages from a wide variety of texts including narrative texts and poetry, and features exercises to challenge pupils of all abilities.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Circus (Huckleberry Finn) Circus Lion Poetry technique: Rhythm Jumbo-sized protest Spell check: -ful words Vocabulary: eponyms Grammar and punctuation: revising nouns verbs adjectives Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 2 Survival (Lord of the Flies) Death of an Aircraft Poetry technique: Method and Simile Villagers plucked from the torrent Spell check: suffixes Vocabulary: Circum- and toponyms Grammar and punctuation: adjectives adverbs commas for lists Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 3 Race (Noughts and Crosses) Telephone conversation Poetry technique: Irony I have a dream Spell check: y/ies (nouns) Vocabulary: -scope words and related word forms Grammar and punctuation: conjunctions demonstrative and superlative pronouns commas Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 4 Carol singers (Under the Greenwood Tree) Christmas Poetry technique: Rhyme Save the Nativity Play Spell check: y/ies (verbs) Vocabulary: -logy words, synonyms Grammar and punctuation: prepositions articles punctuating direct speech Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 5 Love (Silas Marner) Sonnet 18 Poetry technique: Metre St Valentine Spell check: -y advjectives becoming -ness nouns Vocabulary: -dom and -hood words, over- and under- words Grammar and punctuation: phrasal verbs Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 6 Growing up (Walkabout) Life in a Liberty Bodice Timothy Winters Poetry technique: Symbolism Spell check: words/phrases starting al- or all Vocabulary: words from Greek and Latin deities, -ian words Grammar and punctuation: sentences Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 7 London (A Study in Scarlet) London: its history Composed under Westminster Bridge Poetry technique: Personification Spell check: plurals of -o nouns Vocabulary: words from navis and ruptura, alliterative rhyming expressions Grammar and punctuation voice transitive and intrasitive Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 8 Drought (Rice without rain) The Ancient Mariner Poetry technique: Alliteration India bitten by drought Spell check: al/ally words, single/double r Vocabulary: Latinate derivations Grammar and punctuation fronted phrases Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 9 Bullying (David Copperfield) Ozymandias Poetry technique: Consonance Bullying: Don't suffer in silence Spell check: dis- words Vocabulary: words from petito, ped- amd -pod words Grammar and punctuation fronted clauses subordinate clauses Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 10 Animals (Watership Down) Encounters with Animals The Tyger Poetry technique: Assonance Spell check: -cal and -cle adjectives, ise/ice words Vocabulary: verbs of movement, words from spirare Grammar and punctuation: gerund and gerundives Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that...

About the Author :
Susan Elkin taught English to thousands of pupils for 36 years. Most recently she was a member of the English Department at Benenden from 1993-2004. She has a parallel career as a professional writer and journalist, writing regularly for the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Stage. She lives and writes in Kent.

Review :
"Another great mix from Susan Elkin and Galore Park: lucid prose, illustrious poems and interesting non-fiction, as well as searching exercises to expand the minds of our pupils." Nigel Ramage, Papplewick School "At last, the wheel has come full circle and we have an English text that embraces all aspects of our subject. This well-structured book will challenge and delight." Roger Mortimer, Highgate Junior School


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781902984575
  • Publisher: Hachette Learning
  • Publisher Imprint: Galore Park Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 246 mm
  • Series Title: Bk. 2 So You Really Want to Learn
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1902984579
  • Publisher Date: 21 Oct 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 134 gr


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