EMSAT

PREPARATION
Grade 12
General &
Advanced

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  The EmSAT English Achieve assesses the extent
to which a student is ready to study in an English‐
medium college or university. EmSAT has six
main sections –
EmSAT  Grammar, Vocabulary, Sentence Construction,
content Cloze Reading, Extended Reading, and Writing
and they are all computerized and timed.
 There will be around 110 questions as well as a
250 word-essay.

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Question
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  Multiple Choice
 Fill-in the-Blanks
 Drag and Drop
EmSAT question
 Reading: cloze reading, extended
types
reading
 Sentence Re-Ordering
 Essay writing

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EmSAT
Achieve
Score
Descriptors

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What do the CEFR
levels mean?

The Common
European
Framework of
Reference

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Understand  Subject –verb agreement
and practice

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 Subject verb agreement simply means
the subject and verb must agree in number. This
What does means both need to be singular or both need to be
plural.
subject verb
agreement
Basic Rule. 
mean?
A singular subject (she, Bill, car) takes a singular
verb (is, goes, shines), whereas a plural subject
takes a plural verb.

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  There are only a few verbs that change with the subject amount
Auxiliary Verbs
Present continuous is – are (is looking – are looking)
She is – They are
Past continuous was – were (was looking – were looking)

VERB She was - They were

Present Perfect has – have + past participle (frozen, taken,
ANALYSIS eaten)
She has – They have
She does – They do
Action verb
She looks – They look
My dad drives – my brothers drive

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Let’s
understand it
first! Watch the
video

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 https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/subject_verb_agreement_1.asp

https://www.quia.com/quiz/281290.html

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/syntax-conventions-of-stand
ard-english/subject-verb-agreement-and-pronoun-antecedent-agreement/e/subje
ct-verb-agreement
Time to
practice!

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  What is an article?
 An article comes before a noun and shows what type of noun
it is. Articles can be definite or indefinite.
 The definite article is ‘the’. An indefinite article is the word ‘a’
or ‘an’.
 What are determiners?
What are  Determiners are also used to affect a noun in some way. In
articles and fact, the articles we just looked at are a type of determiner.
But there are some additional ones to note too,
determiners? including demonstrative determiners and possessives.
 Demonstrative determiners include ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘these’, and
‘those’.  All of these describe the identity of the noun you are
referring to.
 Similarly, possessive pronouns show who the noun belongs
to. These include “my”, “your”, “his”, “her”, “its”, and “our”.

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 The A/An
definite article Indefinite (non-specific)
(specific)

Articles 2  Articles
When to use A or An
An is used when the first letter of the word is or sounds
like a vowel
AEIOU (an elephant , an hour, an MG car)
(a useful gadget, used car)

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Let’s
understand
further

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 https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/determiners-q
uiz.htm
Time to https://www.grammarbank.com/a-an-the-worksheets
practice! .html

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  Intensifiers are adverbs or adverbial phrases that
strengthen the meaning of other expressions and show
emphasis.
What are  Words that we commonly use as intensifiers
intensifiers? include absolutely, completely, extremely, highly,
rather, really, so, too, totally, utterly, very and at all.

 Examples:
 She was so upset. I felt extremely sorry for her.
 Don’t work too hard. Sometimes you’ll get more done by relaxing a
bit.
 I don’t think she understood the topic and her essay was rather a
mess.
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Let’s
understand
further

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  https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5b74517c1208a
6001998914d/intensifiers
Time to
practice!
 https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.ph
p?title=adverbs-intensifiers

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  Pronouns
 A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun. For example:

What are
pronouns?

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More about
pronouns

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Watch the
video

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  https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/prono
uns_1.asp

Time to  https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/p
practice! arts-of-speech-the-pronoun/subject-object-person-and
-number/e/pronoun-person

 https://www.english-4u.de/en/grammar-exercises/pron
ouns-mixed.htm

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  What are Idioms?
 Idioms are expressions that are more
used figurately than literally to express a
What are comparison, ideas, exaggeration or
idioms contradiction.
 Eg “at the eleventh hour” – at the last
minute /
 “in cold blood” - without heart

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Let’s
understand
further

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Some more
Idiom Practice

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  https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=idioms-tes
t_1

Practice some  https://www.edudose.com/english/idioms-and-phrases-tests-ques

tions-answers/
idioms  https://www.englishclub.com/ref/Idioms/Quizzes/Mixed_1/
 https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/56f40d1ddb82600664d8a719/idio
ms
!

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Know about  A preposition is a word used to
link nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words
prepositions within a sentence. They act to connect the people,
objects, time and locations of a
sentence.  Prepositions are usually short words,
and they are normally placed directly in front of
nouns. In some cases, you’ll find prepositions in
front of gerund verbs.

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Prepositions
AT; ON; IN

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  https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/gra
mmar/prepositions/exercises

Let’s practice  https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/063_02.ht

m
 https://www.englishpage.com/prepositio
ns/prepositions_list.htm

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EmSAT Grammar components

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What are verb
forms?

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Practice your
verb forms

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Verb forms

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More about
verb forms

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More about
verb forms

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More about
verb forms

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More about
verb forms

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 https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/english-grammar-reference/v
erbs

For further https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/verb-forms-quiz

practice https://www.englishgrammar.org/verbs-quiz-2/

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EmSAT Grammar components

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Know about
modal verbs

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Know about
modal verbs

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Watch the
video

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  https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5c576ee71d8cd5001b8a
f60a/modal-verbs

Let’s practice!  https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=

modal-verbs

 https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/mod
al-verbs/m009.htm

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  A conditional sentence is formed by a main clause (the
consequence), a conjunction (if), and a conditional clause

Know about
conditionals!

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Know about
conditionals!

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Know about
conditionals!

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Watch the
video!

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  https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-conditio
nal_quiz.htm

Let’s practice!  https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/36.html

 https://www.thoughtco.com/conditional-forms-quiz-40
62858

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Know about
gerunds

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Watch the
video

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  https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/56ddde7803b9a4dc7bf
eccc9/gerund-practice

Let’s practice  https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/037_01.htm

 https://www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/g
erund_or_infinitive/quiz2083.html

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FANBOYS
FOR
COMPOUND
SENTENCES

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Let’s
understand
conjunctions!

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Let’s
understand
conjunctions!

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Let’s watch
this video

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  https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/conjunctions

Let’s Practice  https://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/english-grammar-conjunc

tions2.html

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  A phrasal verb is a verb that is made up of a main verb together with
an adverb or a preposition, or both. Phrasal verbs can be intransitive
(i.e. they have no object): or transitive (i.e. they can have an object).

Understand
phrasal verbs!

 

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Understand
phrasal verbs!

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Watch the
video!

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  https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/phrasal-verbs
-quiz.htm

Let’s practice!  https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/phras

al-verbs-quiz-1

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Understand
comparative
adjectives

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Understand
superlative
adjectives

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Know more
about
comparatives
and
superlatives

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Know more
about
comparatives
and
superlatives

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Know more
about
comparatives
and
superlatives

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Watch the
video!

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  https://anthonyhalderman.com/english/compsup.htm

 https://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/adjecti
Let’s Practice ves/quiz328.html

 https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/58124e8901d632f22b6
056ef/comparative-superlative-quiz

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  Word order refers to the way words are arranged in a sentence. The standard word
order in English is: Subject + Verb + Object. 

 For an Assertive sentence,

Know about the word order is:
word order    1. Article
   2. Adjective- which may be modified by an  [ 2a. Adverb]
   3. Noun / Pronoun
   4.  Verb- which may be modified by an [ 4a. Adverb ]
   5. Preposition
   6. Article
   7. Adjective- which may be modified by an  [7a. Adverb]
   8. Noun / Pronoun.

 Example: `The young boy kicked at the round football.`

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 Adjectives are placed in English according to their nature or type. There are three
groups of adjectives, defining the qualities of a noun :  
► A. Articles & accessories, relative or perceived circumstantial qualities.
  At the start of group A come Articles and determiners
► B. Basic, permanent but circumstantial qualities
► C. Classifying adjectives, innate or fundamental permanent qualities

Word order
with adjectives

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Watch and
learn about the
word order

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Watch what
order
adjectives
follow

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 https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/119.htm

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/w
ord_order1/task.php

Let’s practice! https://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/english_wor

dorder1.html

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  A part of speech is one of the nine types of English words: verb, noun, adjective
adverb, pronoun, preposition, determiner, conjunction, interjection.

 The most important parts of speech are the BIG FOUR and they are:
 verb (deliver - expresses action)
Know about  noun (computer - expresses a thing)
the parts of  adjective (yellow - tells us more about a noun)
 adverb (quickly - tells us more about a verb)
speech
 The other parts of speech are mostly small words:
 pronoun (it - replaces a noun)
 preposition (on - links a noun to another word)
 determiner (the - limits a noun)
 conjunction (and - joins words)
 interjection (ouch! - expresses feeling)
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  https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/parts-of-speech-quiz.htm

 https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5739f5da69b697caeb3db40f/8-par
ts-of-speech-quiz
Let’s Practice
 https://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/parts_of_speech/
quiz395.html

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  Discourse markers are words and phrases used in speaking and
writing. Discourse markers help to show turns, join ideas
together, show attitude, and generally control
communication. 
 Words like 'actually', 'so', 'OK', 'right?' and 'anyway’ are all
Know about discourse markers and they help the speaker to manage the
conversation and mark when it changes.
discourse  Example:
markers

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Watch the
video!

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 https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b2/discourse-markers/

 https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5d5c084a1132bc001d54cd24/disco
urse-markers

 https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks3/english/vocabulary-buildi
ng-discourse-markers-01/

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