English

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Free English study notes for Lower Secondary students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.

Reading skills

  • Topic and main idea

  • Supporting details and specific information

  • Vocabulary in context and dictionary use

  • Opinion, reasons and simple inference

  • Non-linear media: signs, graphs, charts and tables

  • Instructions, notices and advertisements

  • Stories, tales and dialogues

  • Reading aloud: sounds, stress and intonation

Listening skills

  • Listening for main idea

  • Listening for specific information

  • Everyday conversations and responses

  • Announcements, directions and instructions

  • Short talks, news and simple reports

  • Speaker feelings and attitude

Writing

  • Sentence and paragraph building

  • Describing people, places and daily routines

  • Narrating experiences and events

  • Expressing feelings and opinions with reasons

  • Messages, letters and emails

  • Notices, leaflets and slogans

  • Summarising and reporting information

  • Writing from charts, tables and pictures

Grammar in use

  • Tenses: present, past and future

  • Question forms: Yes/No, Wh- and Or-questions

  • Passive voice in simple structures

  • Comparison of adjectives and adverbs

  • Quantity words, pronouns and determiners

  • Conjunctions, connectives and contrast

  • If clauses, so...that and such...that

  • Simple, compound and complex sentences

Vocabulary & functions

  • Word formation and parts of speech

  • Everyday collocations and fixed expressions

  • Greetings, thanks, apologies and invitations

  • Requests, advice, offers and refusals

  • Giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing

  • Politeness, register and social etiquette

  • Comparing English and Thai: sounds, punctuation and word order

Curriculum themes

  • Self, family and people around us

  • School, education and careers

  • Food, drink, health and welfare

  • Leisure, recreation and sport

  • Travel, places, services and shopping

  • Environment, weather, science and technology

  • Culture, festivals and traditions

  • School, community and local news

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