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Grade 8
Language structures and conventions
- Abbreviations
- Active and passive voice
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Antonyms
- Articles
- Common errors: Ambiguity
- Common errors: Concord
- Common errors: Confusing words
- Common errors: Double negatives
- Common errors: Everyday English mistakes
- Common errors: Homophones
- Common errors: Spelling mistakes
- Common errors: Tautology
- Common errors: The apostrophe
- Common errors: The comma splice
- Common errors: The malapropism
- Common errors: The misrelated participle
- Common errors: Verbosity
- Conjunctions
- Degrees of comparison
- Denotation and connotation
- Direct and reported speech
- Figures of speech 01
- Figures of speech 02
- Homonyms
- Homophones
- Idioms
- Introduction to the prefix, suffix and root word
- Literal and figurative meaning
- Metaphors
- Nouns and adjectives
- Nouns: Plural forms
- Parts of speech
- Phrases and clauses
- Prefixes
- Prepositions
- Prepositions (2)
- Pronouns
- Proverbs
- Punctuation 01 (comma, dash, ellipsis dots)
- Punctuation 02 (capital letters, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark, apostrophe, hyphen)
- Punctuation 03 (colon, semi-colon, inverted commas, brackets)
- Sentences: Simple, complex and compound
- Similes
- Subject and object
- Subject and predicate
- Subject-verb concord
- Suffixes
- Synonyms
- Synonyms and antonyms: An introduction
- Synonyms and antonyms: In context
- Tenses - simple tenses
- The colon
- The comma
- The full stop
- The malapropism
- The semi-colon
- Types of sentences
- Understanding the meanings of common prefixes
- Understanding the meanings of common suffixes
- Verbs
Reading and viewing
- Fact and opinion
- Figurative language - alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia
- Figurative language - personification
- How to summarise a given text
- Reading and responding to an advertisement
- Reading and responding to a cartoon
- Reading and responding to a magazine article
- Reading and responding to a newspaper article
- Reading and responding to a questionnaire
- Reading and responding to an unseen poem
- Reading and responding to a written speech
- Reading for comprehension
- The key features of a novel
- The reading process
Writing and presenting
- Bias and prejudice
- How to write an advertisement
- Stereotypes
- The writing process: the different types of essays
- Tone
- Writing a dialogue
- Writing a diary entry
- Writing a formal letter asking for help or advice
- Writing an informal letter asking for help or advice
- Writing an interview
- Writing a newspaper article
- Writing an obituary
- Writing a review of a story or novel
- Writing an agenda for a meeting and the minutes of the meeting