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English
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Free English study notes for Junior High School students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.
Grade 1
Can
Listening
Listening for required information
Grasping the gist of a talk
Grasping key points of a short explanation
Announcements and messages
The speaker's intention
Reading
Reading for required information
Grasping the gist of a short text
Grasping key points of a social-topic text
Practical texts: ads, timetables, letters, e-mail
Stories and essays
Reading with illustrations, photos and charts
Grade 2
Writing
Writing accurately about familiar matters
Letters and e-mail
A coherent account of events
Opinion and reasons on a social topic
Notes, summaries and speech drafts
Grade 3
Grammar in use: sentences & structures
Compound and complex sentences
Questions (modal, or, which/whose)
Exclamatory sentences
SVC with verbs other than be
SVO with gerund / to-infinitive / how to
SVO with that- / what-clauses
SVOO patterns
SVOC, incl. bare infinitive
There / It patterns and tell-want + to
Grammar in use: words & tenses
Pronouns (person, demonstrative, interrogative, quantity)
Conjunctions and prepositions
Auxiliary and modal verbs
Present and past forms
Present and past progressive
Present perfect and present perfect progressive
Future expressions with modals
Comparison with adjectives and adverbs
Grammar in use: verbals, voice, clauses
To-infinitives
Gerunds
Participles as adjectives
Passive voice
Relative pronouns (restrictive that/which/who)
Basic subjunctive
Vocabulary & functions
Building the 1,600-1,800 word range
High-frequency collocations and idioms
Sounds, spelling and punctuation marks
Keeping communication going
Expressing feelings
Giving facts and information
Expressing ideas and intentions
Prompting the other person to act
Themes & settings
Home, school and local events
Set-phrase settings: self-introduction, shopping, directions, travel, phone
Daily life and customs around the world and in Japan
Stories, geography and history
Traditional culture and natural science
International understanding
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