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Free English study notes for Senior 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.

English Communication I

    Listening

    • Listening for required information in dialogues and announcements

    • Grasping the speaker's intention

    • Gist and main points of explanations and speeches

    • Development and details in news and lectures

    • Summarising and exchanging what was heard

    English Communication II

      Reading

      • Required information in emails and pamphlets

      • Grasping the writer's intention

      • Gist and main points of expository and argumentative texts

      • Following text development and logical structure

      • Reading news articles and stories

      • Responding to what was read

      English Communication III

      Writing

      • Writing a paragraph with reasons and evidence

      • Writing multi-paragraph texts

      • Writing an opinion for or against

      • Writing letters and emails

      • Writing based on what was heard or read

      • Summarising the main points

      Speaking and Logic / Expression

      • Sustaining spontaneous interaction

      • Debate and discussion

      • Speech and presentation

      • Structuring and developing an argument

      • Expressions that convey ideas effectively

      Logic and Expression

        Grammar I (Verbs and Sentence Structure)

        Grammar II (Clauses, Modification, Connection)

        • Uses of relative pronouns

        • Uses of relative adverbs

        • Uses of conjunctions and that-clauses

        • Uses of prepositions

        • Participles and gerunds

        • Comparison

        Vocabulary, Sounds and Punctuation

        • Vocabulary for everyday topics

        • Vocabulary for social topics

        • Collocations

        • Idiomatic expressions

        • Stress, intonation and pausing

        • Punctuation (comma, colon, semicolon, dash)

        Language Functions and Situations

        • Keeping communication going

        • Expressing feelings

        • Conveying facts and information

        • Conveying ideas and intentions

        • Prompting the other person to act

        • Situations with characteristic expressions

        Topics and Themes

        • Daily life and customs around the world and in Japan

        • Stories

        • Geography and history

        • Traditional culture and intercultural understanding

        • Natural science

        • International understanding and cooperation

        • Ideas about people, society and nature

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