English Unit Outlines
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In order to help you study the English topics, we are posting unit outlines here. All of the information in these outlines should already be in your English notebooks! Why, then, are we posting it? Because making an outline is a great way to study! See if you can write your own unit outline before we post the new one.
Here is the Unit 1 Outline:
UNIT 1
I. Vocabulary
·rope
·saw
·hammer
·roller
·tray
·nail
·tools
·tape measure
·tree house
·plans
·boards
·tool box
·(to) laugh
·straight
·crooked
·ladder
II. Irregular Verbs
U1 – be
U1 – become
U1 – bite
U1 – break
U1 – bring
U1 – build
U1 – bury
U1 – buy
U1 – catch
U1 – choose
III. Grammar
Present perfect
·Use the present perfect to talk about actions in the past that are still true
now.
Present perfect = have / has + past participle
Ever / never
·Use ever to ask about what someone has done in their life up to now.
(Questions)
·Use never to talk about what someone has not done in their life up to now.
(Negative)
Since / for
·Use the present perfect and since to talk about past actions after a certain
time or date.
(January, last Tuesday, 2006, 4 o’clock)
·Use the present perfect and for to talk about past actions in a period of time.
(a week, 3 years. 5 hours, a month)
IV. Working with words
Subject, object, verb, adjective and adverb
·The subject and object are nouns: The subject does the action and the object
receives it
·The verb is the action word
·The adjective modifies (»describes) a noun (the subject or the object)
·The adverb modifies (»describes) a verb (the action word)
V. Writing Skills
A poem: pattern and rhythm
·Stress syllables are the syllables we say more strongly than the others to give
our poem a rhythm
·The syllables in each line make a pattern (e.g. 7, 6, 7, 6)
you may be asked to write a short poem
for the exam which rhymes and has a
syllable pattern.
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