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Fundamentals of English contains:
• Comprehensive coverage of all the courses
• Material relevant to class 11-12 students and teachers of English
• Three chapters focusing on specific skills for any students of English wanting to practise their grammar, paragraph and sentence structure, punctuation, editing and proofreading skills
• A range of writing and comprehension tasks to reinforce each topic
• Answers to all questions
• An assessment record for each chapter to see your progress
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Contents: Introduction • Chapter 1- Aids to Effective Communication: The Paragraph • Introduction • Understanding syllables • Using paragraphs • Topic sentences in paragraphs • Sequencing paragraphs • Paragraphs and planning • Your paragraphs: writing an essay • Spelling and vocabulary • Answers • Assessment record • Chapter 2 - Module A: Approaches to Area of Study in English • SECTION 1: An introduction to the concept of change • What is change? • Writing an essay about change • Analysing change • The mass media and change • Written communication and visual text • Designing a leaflet about change • Looking at change through numbers • Prose and other text • Figurative language • SECTION 2: Prose fiction • An introduction to the novel • Focus on a novel: Tomorrow, When the War Began • Special study of a novel: Looking for Alibrandi • Study of extracts from Looking for Alibrandi • Major assessment item: writing an essay • SECTION 3: Poetry • The unique qualities of poetry • Figurative language in poetry • Challenging poetry • Answers • Assessment record • Chapter 3: Module A, Part 2: Approaches to Area of Study in English: Extension, Enrichment and Testing • Introduction • Improving your reading • Vocabulary: difficult words • Test 1 • Vocabulary: satire and irony • Test 2 • Test 3 • Answers • Assessment record • Chapter 4: Aids to Effective Communication: The Sentence • Introduction • SECTION 1: The nature of sentences • Understanding sentences • Parts of the verb ‘to be’ • Compound verbs • Sentence fragments • Subject and predicate • Singular and plural verbs • Person • Tense • Compound sentences • Complex sentences • Phrases • Fused sentences • SECTION 2: The skills of editing and proofreading • Editing skills • Editing convoluted sentences • Proofreading skills • Answers • Assessment record • Chapter 5: Module B: Oral Communication Skills • Introduction • Types of oral communication • Idioms • Slang • Discussion • The interview • Oral presentations • Listening skills • The debate • Talking and writing: Oral vs written communication • Answers • Assessment record • Chapter 6: Module C: Writing for Study • Introduction • SECTION 1: Image: Strictly Ballroom • Off to the movies • Summary of the film • Images and issues in Strictly Ballroom • Essay • SECTION 2: Dialogue: The Club • Introduction to The Club • Summary of the play • Dialogue in The Club • Essay • Answers • Assessment record • Chapter 7 - Aids to Effective Communication: Punctuation • Introduction • Overview of punctuation • The comma (,) • The colon (:) • The semicolon (;) • The apostrophe (‘) • Quotation marks • Capital letters and acronyms • Revision tests • Homonyms and the spell check Answers • Chapter 8 - Module D: Investigative Skills • Introduction: poetry revision • SECTION 1: Close study of text: the poetry of Deb Westbury • Overview of the section • mouth to mouth • somewhere else • shells • The Scribe’s Daughter • Dapto dressing up • TV News • the prince • Essay • SECTION 2: Texts and society (Exploration and travel): The Bush Tucker Man: Stories of Survival • Introduction to Stories of Survival • Analysis of the series • Writing an essay on Stories of Survival • SECTION 3: Texts and society (Consumerism): The poems of Bruce Dawe • Consumerism and satire • Televistas • Enter Without So Much as Knocking • Abandonment of Autos • The Not-so-good Earth • Writing an essay • Answers • Assessment record • Chapter 9 - Module E: Workplace Communication • Introduction • Part-time and full-time work • Oral communication at work • Written communication: the business letter • The memorandum • The formal meeting • Entry to the workforce • Answers • Assessment recordISBN - 9788130907024
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