English FAL Examination Preparation

COMPREHENSIVE TOPICS

Comprehension and Visual Literacy: Read a story and a comic-snippet to answer questions that really test your understanding.

Personification – understand, identify, find and write.

Metaphors – understand, identify, find and write.

Similes – understand, identify, find and write.

Idioms – know all the idioms in your workbook, as well as what they mean.

Summarise parts of a story. Be able to summarise parts of a story by highlighting the main points and rewriting them in your own words.

LANGUAGE TOPICS:

Noun types and Adjectives – understand, find, identify and write

Verbs and Adverb types – understand, identify, find and write.

Compound Nouns – understand, identify, find and write.

Synonyms and Antonyms – understand, think of your own and write.

Direct and Indirect Speech – know the rules on how to change a direct sentence into an indirect sentence, and vice versa.

Syllables – Understand the rules of dividing words into syllables and be able to do so in the exam.

Acronyms and Abbreviations – understand, identify, find and write.