Foreign Language English - Basic study materials
Foreign Language English - Basic study resources

Foreign Language English - Basic cheat sheet

Foreign Language English - Basic · Keep the key ideas within reach.

Quick reference

Grammar and vocabulary through meaning and context

  • Read the complete sentence and its time or logical relationship.

  • Check both grammatical form and meaning.

  • Learn collocations and complement patterns in context.

  • Preserve tense, qualification and meaning in a rewrite.

  • Use recognition practice alongside original writing and speaking.

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Read for information, inference and textual effect

  • Distinguish explicit detail from justified inference.

  • Read limiting words, negation and changes of plan carefully.

  • Check reference and logic across both sides of a text gap.

  • Distinguish narrator, speaker and author.

  • Support analysis with precise evidence and explained effects.

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Writing, argument and audience-focused mediation

  • Identify audience, purpose, required content and genre before drafting.

  • Develop paragraphs with connected explanation and evidence.

  • Use register appropriate to the situation.

  • Mediation selects faithful relevant content for the intended audience.

  • Revise task coverage, organization and language, then practise full responses.

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Listening meaning, interaction and written-script preparation

  • Follow the final decision and corrections, not the first matching word.

  • Use complete wording and delivery to interpret attitude.

  • Listen for paraphrase and track each speaker.

  • Respond, develop reasons and interact rather than reciting unrelated material.

  • Printed scripts support preparation but do not replace real audio and oral practice.