English Wk 2
English Overview Factsheet- What might you be tested on?
Grammar, Spellings and Punctuation
- Grammar
The rules of the English language (verbs, adjectives, nouns, adverbs, pronouns, preposition, conjunction – see later notes in week XXX)
- Spellings
How to spell common words and also the more unusual and higher level spellings
- Punctuation
You may have to choose the correct answer or you may have to say which is the incorrect answer.
Comprehension
Read a paragraph of text and answer questions on it!
The text could be any format:
- A Poem
- A news story
- Fiction or non-fiction
- Modern or historical text
- Set of instructions
- Letter
- Diary
Cloze
- Words
You may have to fill in the missing letters to complete the words.
- Sentences
You may have to fill in the missing words to complete the sentence
- Paragraphs
You may have a paragraph with a number of missing words and you are given a choice of words to choose from, and you need to place them in the correct part of the paragraph to complete the paragraph.
Shuffled Sentences / Jumbled Sentences
- Each sentence is jumbled up.
- In your head you have to make the sentence make sense, and find the word which does not have a place in the sentence.
Synonyms
Each question will have a word and you have to find the synonym.
A synonym is a word which is “similar†to another. It may not be exactly the same but may be an associated word such as “duck†and “birdâ€.
Antonyms
An Antonym means “oppositeâ€.