English Language
Senior High School · Core
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Practice topics (Otisam)
Current curriculum
- Topic Structure
- Topic Lexis: nearest meaning
- Topic Lexis: opposite meaning
- Topic Idioms and interpretation
- Topic Oral English
- Topic Speech sounds: vowels, fricatives, affricates and nasals
- Topic Word classes, determiners and prepositions
- Topic Tenses and forms of verbs
- Topic Subject, predicate and cohesion
- Topic Reading, summary and text types
- Topic Letters, articles and narrative essays
- Topic Literature: narrative, drama and poetry
- Topic Diphthongs, triphthongs and consonant clusters
- Topic Noun, adjectival and adverbial clauses
- Topic Subject-verb agreement and the passive voice
- Topic Synonyms, antonyms and collocations
- Topic Speeches, reports, minutes and formal letters
- Topic Poetry and imagery
- Topic Stress, intonation and registers
- Topic Phrases, phrasal verbs and idioms
- Topic Direct and indirect speech and referencing
- Topic CVs, proposals and personal statements
- Topic Stress in longer words and meaning
- Topic The nominal group: nouns, determiners and modifiers
- Topic The verbal group: auxiliaries, tense and aspect
- Topic Advanced concord
- Topic Oral English: vowel contrasts
- Topic Oral English: consonant contrasts and clusters
- Topic Adjuncts, adverbials and word order
- Topic Comprehension: grammatical names and functions
- Topic Formal and semi-formal letters
- Topic Register: vocabulary of special fields
- Topic Mechanics: spelling, punctuation and capitalisation
- Topic Sequence of tenses and advanced reported speech
- Topic Non-finite verbs: infinitives, gerunds and participles
- Topic Prepositions and collocations
- Topic Sentence transformation: inversion, cleft and emphasis
- Topic Oral English: word stress and emphatic stress
- Topic Oral English: intonation and rhyme
- Topic Summary writing for WASSCE
- Topic Narrative and descriptive essays for WASSCE
- Topic Articles, speeches and reports for WASSCE
- Topic Interpreting figurative and idiomatic expressions
- Topic Ambiguity, redundancy and common errors
- Topic Lexis: near-synonyms in context
- Topic Lexis: antonyms in context
- Topic Argumentative essays and debates for WASSCE
- Topic Creative writing: short stories
- Topic Appreciating poetry: devices and analysis
- Topic Memos, emails and minutes
- Topic Cohesion, coherence and discourse markers
- Topic Paraphrasing and précis
- Topic WASSCE comprehension: inference and vocabulary
Items marked “official” follow the wording of the GES/NaCCA curriculum document named above; other items are supplementary.