Chapter 1 Circus (Huckleberry Finn) Circus Lion Poetry technique: Rhythm Jumbo-sized protest Spell check: -ful words Vocabulary: eponyms Grammar and punctuation: revising nouns verbs adjectives Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 2 Survival (Lord of the Flies) Death of an Aircraft Poetry technique: Method and Simile Villagers plucked from the torrent Spell check: suffixes Vocabulary: Circum- and toponyms Grammar and punctuation: adjectives adverbs commas for lists Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 3 Race (Noughts and Crosses) Telephone conversation Poetry technique: Irony I have a dream Spell check: y/ies (nouns) Vocabulary: -scope words and related word forms Grammar and punctuation: conjunctions demonstrative and superlative pronouns commas Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 4 Carol singers (Under the Greenwood Tree) Christmas Poetry technique: Rhyme Save the Nativity Play Spell check: y/ies (verbs) Vocabulary: -logy words, synonyms Grammar and punctuation: prepositions articles punctuating direct speech Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 5 Love (Silas Marner) Sonnet 18 Poetry technique: Metre St Valentine Spell check: -y advjectives becoming -ness nouns Vocabulary: -dom and -hood words, over- and under- words Grammar and punctuation: phrasal verbs Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 6 Growing up (Walkabout) Life in a Liberty Bodice Timothy Winters Poetry technique: Symbolism Spell check: words/phrases starting al- or all Vocabulary: words from Greek and Latin deities, -ian words Grammar and punctuation: sentences Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 7 London (A Study in Scarlet) London: its history Composed under Westminster Bridge Poetry technique: Personification Spell check: plurals of -o nouns Vocabulary: words from navis and ruptura, alliterative rhyming expressions Grammar and punctuation voice transitive and intrasitive Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 8 Drought (Rice without rain) The Ancient Mariner Poetry technique: Alliteration India bitten by drought Spell check: al/ally words, single/double r Vocabulary: Latinate derivations Grammar and punctuation fronted phrases Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 9 Bullying (David Copperfield) Ozymandias Poetry technique: Consonance Bullying: Don't suffer in silence Spell check: dis- words Vocabulary: words from petito, ped- amd -pod words Grammar and punctuation fronted clauses subordinate clauses Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that... Chapter 10 Animals (Watership Down) Encounters with Animals The Tyger Poetry technique: Assonance Spell check: -cal and -cle adjectives, ise/ice words Vocabulary: verbs of movement, words from spirare Grammar and punctuation: gerund and gerundives Speaking and Listening Have you read? And if you've done all that...
