Thai Language

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Free Thai Language revision notes for Lower Secondary students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.

Reading skills

  • Reading aloud prose and verse (thamnong sanoe)

  • Main idea, summarising and mind maps

  • Literal and implied meaning, figurative and polysemous words

  • Fact, opinion and supporting information

  • Analysing, criticising and arguing about what is read

  • Persuasive and propaganda writing

  • Manuals and academic documents

  • Reading etiquette and reading for interest

Writing genres

  • Handwriting and communicative writing

  • Descriptive and narrative writing

  • Essay writing

  • Precis writing

  • Personal and business letters

  • Writing opinion, analysis and argument

  • Occasional texts, biography and job applications

  • Research reports and projects

Listening, viewing and speaking

  • Summarising and retelling what is heard and viewed

  • Expressing and evaluating opinions on media

  • Analysing news and media credibility

  • Persuasive speaking

  • Speaking on different occasions

  • Reporting research and local wisdom orally

  • Etiquette in listening, viewing and speaking

Thai language principles

  • Sounds in Thai

  • Word formation: compound, reduplicated, paired, homonymous words and samat

  • Word classes and their functions

  • Sentence structure: simple, compound, complex and complicated

  • Loanwords, transliterated words and coined technical terms

  • Royal vocabulary and polite words

  • Spoken vs written Thai and levels of language

  • Idioms, aphorisms and proverbs

Verse forms and composition

  • Kap Yani 11

  • Klon Suphap

  • Khlong Si Suphap

  • Kap Chabang 16 and Kap Surangkhanang 28

  • Klon Bot Lakhon, Klon Sepha, Klon Sakkawa and Kap Ho Khlong

Literature in the M.1 course

Literature in the M.2 course

  • Khlong Phap Phra Ratcha Phongsawadan

  • Bot Sepha Samakkhi Sewok: Witsawakamma and Samakkhi Sewok

  • Inscription No. 1

  • Kap Ho Khlong Praphat Than Thongdaeng

  • Khlong Suphasit by King Rama V

  • Klon Dok Soi Ramphueng Nai Pa Cha

Literature in the M.3 course

  • Bot Lakhon Phut: Hen Kae Luk

  • Phra Aphai Mani: fleeing Nang Phi Suea Samut

  • Phra Borom Rachowat

  • Itsara Yan Phasit

Recitation pieces (bot akhayan), M.1-M.3

  • Akhayan: Nirat Phukhao Thong

  • Akhayan: Khlong Lokanit

  • Akhayan: Khlong Suphasit Naruthumanakan

  • Akhayan: Bot Sepha Samakkhi Sewok, Witsawakamma

  • Akhayan: Itsara Yan Phasit

  • Akhayan: Bot Phak Erawan

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