Table of Contents

Unit 1 Rocket science: Language: parts of speech, passive voice; Writing: news report, internet article; Unit 2 Bear essentials: Language: parenthesis, writer's effects; Writing: school magazine article, speech; Unit 3 Simply flying: Language: spelling, prefixes, dashes and hyphens; Writing: interview, job application letter; Unit 4 On the ball: Language: apostrophes, semicolons, spelling, speech punctuation, prefixes; Writing: dialogue, evaluative letter; Unit 5 Great rivers: Language: parts of speech, commas, sentence structures, fact v. opinion, writers' effects; Writing: dialogue, complaint letter; Unit 6 Elephant tales: Language: prefixes, synonyms, punctuation; Writing: news report, letter/email journal entry; Unit 7 Bricks and stones: Language: past tenses, relative clauses, prepositions, sentence punctuation, writer's effects; Writing: dialogue, news report, informative letter; speech; Unit 8 Aiming high: Language: punctuation, homophones, spelling, writers' effects; Writing: news report; appeal letter; journal entry; formal report; Unit 9 In deep water: Language: writer's effects, inference, speech punctuation; Writing: encyclopedia entry, journal entry; formal report; Unit 10 Losing sleep: Language: writers' effects, raise/rise/arise, prepositions, conditionals, grammar structures; Writing: informative leaflet; formal report; Unit 11 Sub-zero: Language: synonyms, sentence structures, writers' effects, paraphrase; Writing: advertisement, letter/email, magazine article; Unit 12 Seeing double: Language: writers' effects, identifying bias, sentence structures; Writing: interview; letter; formal report; Grammar and Punctuation Reference.

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