English Skills Builder 2

Part A Language and Literacy

Parts of speech

Unit 1 Nouns
Unit 2 Using nouns
Unit 3 Types of pronouns
Unit 4 Pronouns
Unit 5 Verbs and simple tenses
Unit 6 Perfect tenses
Unit 7 Continuous tenses
Unit 8 Active and passive voice
Unit 9 Subject-verb agreement
Unit 10 Adjectives
Unit 11 Using adjectives
Unit 12 Adverbs
Unit 13 Using adverbs
Unit 14 Prepositions
Unit 15 Conjunctions

Sentence structure

Unit 16 Phrases
Unit 17 Clauses
Unit 18 Sentence structure
Unit 19 Improving sentences
Unit 20 Fragments and run-on sentences
Unit 21 Parallel sentence structure

Punctuation

Unit 22 Overview of punctuation
Unit 23 Punctuation within a sentence
Unit 24 Dots, dashes, brackets and hyphens
Unit 25 Apostrophes: possession
Unit 26 Apostrophes: contractions
Unit 27 Quotations marks
Unit 28 Using quotations
Unit 29 Abbreviations, numbers and italics
Unit 30 Punctuation practice

Using words

Unit 31 Word stems, prefixes and suffixes
Unit 32 Euphemisms, slang, clichés, jargon and idioms
Unit 33 Using a thesaurus
Unit 34 Synonyms and antonyms
Unit 35 Confusing pairs of words
Unit 36 Spelling strategies
Unit 37 Difficult words to spell
Unit 38 Purpose, audience and context
Unit 39 Punctuation for different purposes
Unit 40 Writing paragraphs
Unit 41 Planning an essay
Unit 42 Writing an essay
Unit 43 Footnotes, endnotes and referencing
Unit 44 Editing checklist


Part B Literature

Unit 45 Reading short stories and novels
Unit 46 Reading poetry
Unit 47 Reading drama
Unit 48 Reading Shakespeare
Unit 49 Reading autobiography and biography
Unit 50 Reading persuasive texts


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Enrich Literature Units

Chenxi and the Foreigner
Avatar
The Hunger Games
Bran Nue Dae
Land’s Edge
The Rabbits
Linda Burney ‘2003 Maiden speech’
Macbeth
The Happiest Refugee
Our Choice