Units

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Units are sets of Resources on the same theme.

Present participles in composition This activity involves working with nonfinite clauses to do some sentence-splitting and sentence-joining. The purpose is to develop your awareness of the different kinds of structures that are available to you as a writer. » Read more	Register and vocabulary This lesson invites students to explore the differences and similarities between vocabulary pairs like make and produce, take and transfer, and give and provide. » Read more
Pronouns Pronouns are one of the eight word classes in the National Curriculum. Some linguists would treat pronouns as a subclass of nouns, and there are some good reasons for that, but we adhere to the National Currciulum specifications. Pronouns can sometimes replace a noun in a sentence: » Read more	Relative clauses in composition In this activity, students will look at examples of sentences and turn them into one sentence that incorporates a relative clause with a relative pronoun. You can review relative clauses and relative pronouns using the Englicious glossary and 'Professional development' pages, found in the 'Content type' menu to the left. » Read more
Questions in spoken language Spoken language is usually seen as being more interactive than written language. As speakers, we address each other directly (Hey guys), indicate our attention to each other (Mmm), and respond to each others’ comments (Really?, You didn’t!). These are all examples of interactive features. Another interactive feature associated with spoken language is question–answer sequences. In this investigation we will explore this feature, using data from ICE-GB (our corpus, or database of real language). » Read more	Restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses In this lesson, we look at the difference between two kinds of relative clause. A relative clause is a special kind of subordinate clause, and like other subordinate clauses it is introduced by a subordinating conjunction. More specifically, the introduction of a relative clause can be carried out by a relative pronoun. The two types of relative clauses we will be looking at are: » Read more
radio interactive Interactive exercises are very important to assess your progress. Exercise Is the highlighted verb a main verb or an auxiliary verb? » Read more	Sentence building In this activity, students ask the question: what is a sentence? Then, they answer it using an interactive smart board sentence generator. Goals Identify sentences and non-sentences. Create some examples of sentences and non-sentences using an interactive smart board sentence generator. Lesson Plan The teacher explains that today, we will answer the question: what is a sentence? » Read more
Regional vocabulary Looking at the grammar of regional vocabulary items In the work you’ve done so far on ways to identify word classes, you have seen that many words can be identified by form, function and distribution. In this activity, we’ll look at how you might use these ideas to identify some words which appear in regional varieties of English. You’ll see examples of regional dialect terms in the context which they were used, and your task will be to work out what grammatical role the word is performing. » Read more	Sentence generator What did you and your family do on the holidays? In this activity you will experiment with our fun sentence generator which reports on some unusual holiday happenings! » Read more

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