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.

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

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

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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