Practice Skills for English

Celia Gaskin, Keziah Featherstone, Alan Boden and Jane Lucox

2656Paper-based / ePackNov 99
ISBN: Paper-based 978 1 85749 551 5; ePack 978 1 84070 255 2

A wealth of ideas

This pack provides students with the chance to develop and practise their comprehension and writing skills. Each unit introduces and explains a particular skill or technique and includes a number of graded exercises for students to tackle depending on their ability. Each exercise should take no more than 15 to 20 minutes to complete. There are examples showing how to tackle each exercise and feedback in the form of answers or assessment models.

The passages for comprehension are taken from the widest possible range of sources to give students experience of many different kinds of writing. They include:

• reading for clues
• selecting relevant information
• analysing language
• formulating answers

The writing tasks demonstrate with examples how to produce successful answers including selecting material; planning and sequencing ideas; finding the right style and tone; and managing time.

Note that this product is also available as part of KS3 English and Drama Network Resources.

Contents

Introduction

Units

• 1 A Florida Holiday
• 2 The Art of Persuasion
• 3 The Camelford Poisoning
• 4 Britain Runs Dry
• 5 Description of Places
• 6 Portraits of People
• 7 Ozymandias
• 8 Typhus
• 9 Sarajevo
• 10 Help with Writing

Answers