The Cambridge Checkpoint English suite provides a comprehensive, structured resource which covers the Secondary 1 framework for English and seamlessly progresses into the next key stage (covered by our Cambridge IGCSE (R) First Language English series). This skill-building, write-in Workbook for Stage 9 is designed to support students' learning and provide extra language tasks and reading and writing skills development, including sequencing and cloze exercises.

 

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 101 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Cambridge University Press .

Marian Cox has been Head of English and A-level literature teacher in a variety of schools in the UK and overseas. She has written many teacher resource packs, student guides and literary articles, and is an experienced literature examiner.

This book has the following chapters: Unit 1. Art, Design and Fashion: Rhetorical devices; Reflexive pronouns; 'In order to'; Colons and semi-colons; Difficult spellings; Selective summarising; Unit 2. Modern Living: Binomial and antithetical pairs; Pronunciation of verb/noun homographs; Using modals of obligation and paraphrasing; Unit 3. Language and Communication: Identifying, summarising and expanding arguments; Avoiding the use of 'get' and 'said'; Setting out dialogue; Using onomatopoeia and discourse markers; Unit 4. Division and Conflict: Argument forms; Devices of irony, satire, euphemism and propaganda; Identifying bias; Writing concisely; Unit 5. Facing the Future: Collocations; Comparing colloquial with formal expression; Future perfect tense; Writing a summary and a critical response; Unit 6. Making Choices: Identifying the difference between fact and opinion; Responding to an argument; Examining implicit meaning of allegory and imagery; Apostrophe of omission; Unit 7. Education Matters: Summary, Sequencing and persuasive writing; Prepositions; Comparative structures; Possessive apostrophes; Unit 8. Caring and Sharing: Conditional sentences; Prefixes; Using commas usage; The verbs 'lay' and 'lie'; Writing slogans, an appeal broadcast and an informative article; Unit 9. Crime and Law: Identifying parts of speech; Using apostrophes of possession; Completing a dialogue; Designing a poster; Editing a mini-saga; Writing a complaint letter; Unit 10. All in a Day's Work: Practising more formal language; Phrasal and prepositional verbs; Word beginnings; Writing a haiku, a formal job application letter and a monologue; Unit 11. Wings and Wheels: Using hyphens; Recognising prefixes; Using indirect and formal speech; Forming varied sentence structures; Summarising viewpoints; Collating sources for a magazine article and an editorial; Producing a publicity flyer; Unit 12. Seeing Things Differently: Using prefixes, discourse markers, and phrasal verbs with 'do' and 'make'; Writing varied sentences and sequence material; Acknowledgements.