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English
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Free English study notes for Upper Secondary students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Reading skills
Main idea and gist
Specific information and detail
Inference, attitude and opinion
Vocabulary in context
Reference and cohesion
Text organisation and writer's purpose
Non-linear media: charts, tables and graphs
Instructions, notices and advertisements
Listening skills
Listening for gist and main idea
Listening for specific information
Everyday conversations and exchanges
Announcements, instructions and messages
Talks, news and interviews
Speaker attitude and inference
Writing
Paragraph writing
Describing people, places and experiences
Narrative writing
Opinion essay
Expository and problem-solution writing
Letters and emails
Forms, notices and short reports
Summary writing
Grammar in use
Tenses
Passive voice
Modal verbs and giving advice
Reported speech
Conditionals, result and purpose clauses
Relative clauses and complex sentences
Comparison, articles and prepositions
Connectors, conjunctions and contrast
Vocabulary & functions
Word formation and parts of speech
Collocations and fixed expressions
Phrasal verbs
Idioms, proverbs and sayings
Requests, offers and refusals
Giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing
Politeness, register and social etiquette
Curriculum themes
Self, family and relationships
School, education and careers
Health, food, drink and welfare
Leisure, recreation and sport
Travel, places, services and shopping
Environment, weather, science and technology
Culture, festivals and traditions
Society, community and world issues
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