Thai Language

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

Reading

  • Reading aloud words, rhyming words and short texts (P1–P3)

  • Reading aloud prose, verse and tamnong sanoe chanting (P4–P6)

  • Reading for main ideas and summarising

  • Critical reading: fact, opinion and implied meaning

  • Reading explanatory writing, instructions and directions

  • Reading diagrams, maps, charts, graphs and symbols

Writing

  • Handwriting and writing to communicate with words and sentences

  • Descriptive writing and imaginative story writing

  • Diary writing and research reports

  • Letter writing: leave notes, letters to relatives, personal letters

  • Précis writing and essay writing

  • Story outlines, mind maps and filling in forms

Listening, Viewing and Speaking

  • Listening to and following directions and instructions

  • Grasping main ideas and retelling what is heard and viewed

  • Asking and answering questions and giving reasoned opinions

  • Everyday spoken communication and oral reporting

  • Evaluating media credibility and persuasive speaking

  • Etiquette in listening, viewing, speaking, reading and writing

Thai Language Structure: Sounds, Orthography and Spelling

  • Consonants, vowels, tone marks and Thai numerals

  • Syllable building, spelling and final-consonant classes

  • Tone inflection of the three consonant classes; live and dead syllables

  • Leading consonants, consonant clusters and silent-letter marks

  • Homonyms and special spelling patterns

  • Using a Thai dictionary

Thai Language Structure: Words, Phrases and Sentences

  • Word classes: nouns, pronouns, verbs and modifiers

  • Prepositions, conjunctions, connectives and interjections

  • Sentence types for communication: statement, negative, question, request, command

  • Sentence components and simple sentences

  • Phrases, compound sentences and complex sentences

  • Compound words and loanwords in Thai

Diction, Idiom and Verse Composition

  • Rhyming words and slogans

  • Idioms, aphorisms and proverbs

  • Figurative language, narration, description and implied meaning

  • Standard Thai and regional dialects

  • Royal vocabulary and levels of language

  • Composing verse: klon si, kap yani 11 and klon suphap

Literature and Prescribed Recitation Pieces

  • Children's literature: tales, riddles and playground rhymes

  • Folk songs, lullabies and folk tales

  • Themes and values in literature

  • Core recitation pieces P1–P3

  • Core recitation pieces P4–P5

  • Core recitation piece P6: Khun Chang Khun Phaen, Birth of Phlai Ngam

  • Optional recitation pieces P1–P6

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