English Zone For Children

English Zone For Children

Contents
Introduction Acknowledgments v vi

Part A

English Zone Toolkit

A–Z of words you need to impress teachers Text Club Smart dictionary and thesaurus use Classifying texts: Genre, style and form Visual text analysis General steps for composing text No Stress Spelling Note-taking tips Research skills Website evaluation Website design Listening steps Interview skills Oral presentations made easy DIY progress report

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Part B Unit 1 Who am I?
Context Types of texts Grammar alert: Nouns Composing personal texts Focus on poetry Grammar alert: Pronouns

Unit 2 Fantasy Fantasy genre Five key text elements Grammar alert: Adjectives Composing twisted tales Grammar alert: Verbs Focus on film Inside stories Unit 3 Animal planet Animal issues Grammar alert: Adverbs Focus on picture books Persuading people Grammar alert: Prepositions Media workshop

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Unit 4 R U serious?
What makes you laugh? Fun spoken texts Grammar alert: Interjections, articles and abbreviations Fun visual texts Fun print texts Grammar alert: Clauses and conjunctions Focus on Shakespeare’s comedies

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Part C Unit 5 In search of Oz
Oz ID Grammar alert: Parts of speech Multicultural Oz Rabbit-Proof Fence: Film analysis Biographical writing Grammar alert: Subject–verb agreement Focus on the Net Travel Oz

Unit 6 Unsolved!
Deconstructing media reports Grammar alert: More on pronouns Digging up Holmes Focus on crime reports Compose a mystery

Unit 7 Space place Sci-fi genre Focus on MIB Grammar alert: Prepositional phrases Sci-fi poetry Grammar alert: More on adjectives Sci-fi narratives The Roswell Incident Meetings Interactive games Unit 8 Xtreme dream Focus on non-fiction texts...