The document provides an overview of the vocabulary, grammar, and writing expectations for an 11th-12th grade English course. It lists topics that will be covered in vocabulary including survival stories, types of restaurants, jobs, entertainment, science fiction novels, and the environment. Grammar topics include the present simple vs present progressive, past simple, modals, conditionals, and passive voice. Writing assignments will include emails, stories, articles, essays, book reviews, and letters to the editor.
The document provides an overview of the vocabulary, grammar, and writing expectations for an 11th-12th grade English course. It lists topics that will be covered in vocabulary including survival stories, types of restaurants, jobs, entertainment, science fiction novels, and the environment. Grammar topics include the present simple vs present progressive, past simple, modals, conditionals, and passive voice. Writing assignments will include emails, stories, articles, essays, book reviews, and letters to the editor.
The document provides an overview of the vocabulary, grammar, and writing expectations for an 11th-12th grade English course. It lists topics that will be covered in vocabulary including survival stories, types of restaurants, jobs, entertainment, science fiction novels, and the environment. Grammar topics include the present simple vs present progressive, past simple, modals, conditionals, and passive voice. Writing assignments will include emails, stories, articles, essays, book reviews, and letters to the editor.
VOCABULARY related to: survival stories vegetarianism and different food groups weather different types of restaurants motor races products travel; words easily confused books and literature mobiles and applications extreme sports jobs and employment video games communication entertainment computers, devices and the Internet sleeping disorders – insomnia and warning signs narcolepsy language learning natural phenomena and the universe sci-fi novels the universe geographical feature and animals discoveries the environmental issues; environment and environmental problems GRAMMAR Present Simple Vs Present Progressive, Stative verbs Question words, Indirect questions Phrasal verbs Direct questions Phrases, expressions and phrasal verbs with get Past Simple, used to Set phrases Linkers Past Simple Vs Past Progressive; Nouns and Quantifiers Nouns – suffixes –er, -or, -ist, -ant Time linkers Linking words indicating the sequence of events Present Perfect Simple Vs Past Simple Word building – Nouns Suffixes - -ion, -ation, -ment, -ance Adjectives, Adverbs of Manner, Comparisons Descriptive Adjectives Collocations with make and do Modals I Words easily confused Modals II Personality adjectives Collocations with say and tell Relative pronouns Relative clauses Future Tenses Formation of opposites with negative prefixes (um-, ill-, ir-, im-) Conditional Sentences Nouns formed from adjectives Nouns with irregular formation Past Perfect Simple Vs Past Perfect Progressive Articles Verbs followed by prepositions Direct Speech, Exclamations and adverbial phrases Collocations Passive Voice Infinitives, -ing form prefer, would prefer, would rather Forming opposites with the negative prefixes dis- and mis – and the negative suffix – less Prepositional phrases Reported Speech (statements), Reported Questions, Commands and Requests Collocations with lose and miss Clauses of concession and purposes Phrasal verbs with up All, both, Neither, None, Either Conditional Sentences Type 3 Wishes and Unreal Past Phrases with time WRITING An informal e-mail A story An article describing a place A semi-formal email asking for and giving information An essay discussing advantages and disadvantages An essay expressing opinion A book review An article describing an event A letter to the editor expressing an opinion