Practical Reading & Writing
Skills
for Secondary Students
by Peter Howard
Practical Reading & Writing Skills for Secondary Students is a workbook of exercises for improving language skills based on practical real life examples. This book can be used in the classroom or at home for revision and extra work.
Practical Reading & Writing Skills for Secondary Students is a book of exercises to improve basic language skills, based on material which students use every day, for example, maps, menus, timetables, advertisements. It is for students in Years 7 to 8, but particularly those students who either do not like reading or have difficulty reading. Practical Reading & Writing Skills for Secondary Students covers skills in reading, comprehension, vocabulary and grammar.
Features:
Uses material which is relevant and interesting to Year 7 to 8 students.
Includes answers in a separate section
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Practical Reading and Writing Skills Contents
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1 Filling up 2 Reading a sign 3 Reading a handbook 4 The overworked word nice 5 Words that sound alike 6 Reading a TV program 7 Reading a recipe 8 The overworked words got and get 9 Correcting a letter 10 Reading a telephone directory 11 Facts about skin cancer 12 More words that sound alike 13 Correcting mistakes 14 Ordering take-away 15 Using a dictionary 16 Using past participles 17 Using the past tense 18 Food as energy 19 Reading a road map 20 More correcting mistakes 21 Unnecessary words 22 Reading instructions 23 Reading a tide chart 24 More unnecessary words 25 Proverbs 26 Reading a street map 27 Reading a railway timetable 28 Using the right past tense 29 A visit to the museum 30 Reading a notice 31 Reading a soccer league table 32 Numeral words 33 Abbreviations 34 Reading a menu
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35 Cricketing averages 36 Some useful verbs 37 Words that can be mispronounced 38 Applying for a driver's licence 39 Reading for information 40 Euphemisms 41 More proverbs 42 Buying a house 43 Buying a used car 44 Verbs that describe how we move 45 Frequently misspelt words 46 Keeping words in the right order 47 Reading instructions 48 Making a sentence longer 49 More reading for information 50 Verbs that describe movement 51 Correct usage 52 Livestock numbers 53 Common nouns 54 Proper nouns 55 Collective nouns 56 Abstract nouns 57 Personal pronouns 58 Relative pronouns 59 Adjectives 60 Verbs 61 Adverbs. 62 Conjunctions 63 Prepositions 64 Phrases 65 Clauses and sentences 66 More correct usage 67 Grammar revision
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