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Explore the mysterious River Congo in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness, meet Noppakhoa the elephant who loves to paint, and learn fiery facts about rockets. Through interesting topics and exam-style questions, this write-in language skills and practice book provides students with the grammar practice they need for the course and beyond. The clear layout of the book makes focussing on particular grammatical concepts easy, allowing teachers to tailor lessons to their class. Suggested answers to questions are at the back of the book.
Features
- By using this practice book, students become familiar with a range of exam-style questions while gaining practice in writing in different voices and styles.
- As requested by teachers, there is a strong focus on grammar, vocabulary and spelling, as well as a new grammar reference section.
- The directed writing tasks give opportunities to practise a range of exam response genres: letter, news report, magazine article, interview, speech, formal report and journal.
Contents
Unit 1 Rocket science: Language: parts of speech, passive voice
Writing: news report, internet article
Unit 2 Bear essentials: Language: parenthesis, writers effects
Writing: school magazine article, speech
Unit 3 Simply flying: Language: spelling, prefixes, dashes and hyphens
Writing: interview, job application letter
Unit 4 On the ball: Language: apostrophes, semicolons, spelling, speech punctuation, prefixes
Writing: dialogue, evaluative letter
Unit 5 Great rivers: Language: parts of speech, commas, sentence structures, fact v. opinion, writers effects
Writing: dialogue, complaint letter
Unit 6 Elephant tales: Language: prefixes, synonyms, punctuation
Writing: news report, letter/email journal entry
Unit 7 Bricks and stones: Language: past tenses, relative clauses, prepositions, sentence punctuation, writers effects
Writing: dialogue, news report, informative letter
speech
Unit 8 Aiming high: Language: punctuation, homophones, spelling, writers effects
Writing: news report
appeal letter
journal entry
formal report
Unit 9 In deep water: Language: writers effects, inference, speech punctuation
Writing: encyclopedia entry, journal entry
formal report
Unit 10 Losing sleep: Language: writers effects, raise/rise/arise, prepositions, conditionals, grammar structures
Writing: informative leaflet
formal report
Unit 11 Sub-zero: Language: synonyms, sentence structures, writers effects, paraphrase
Writing: advertisement, letter/email, magazine article
Unit 12 Seeing double: Language: writers effects, identifying bias, sentence structures
Writing: interview
letter
formal report
Grammar and Punctuation Reference.
Shipping Information
| Zone | Weight | Delivery Fee (RM) |
|---|---|---|
| West Malaysia | First 3.00 kg | 6.00 |
| Extra 1.00 kg | 2.00 | |
| East Malaysia | First 0.50 kg | 14.30 |
| Extra 0.50 kg | 5.10 |