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Use of English

Word Families · Tricky Words · Keyword Transformation

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Topic: South Africa – freedom, people and nature. You know these tasks from Year 9. Here you revise the words and structures from last year and learn new ones for your exams in Year 10.

Choose a part. Start with Word Families – the help cards show you how English words are built.

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14 help cards · 5 tasks

Word Families

Help cards for prefixes and suffixes, the Year 9 words (help, explain, employ, nerve …) and new word families: free, equal, depend, power, peace, elect, success, responsible, possible …

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3 tasks · watch out!

Tricky Words

Uncountable nouns (advice, luggage, evidence …), strange plurals (species, crises, criteria), false friends (become, actually, eventually) and confusing pairs (rise/raise, lend/borrow, affect/effect).

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11 help cards · 3 tasks

Keyword Transformation

Revision (used to, comparisons, passive), Unit 1 grammar (allowed to, able to, have to, passive) and new keywords: for / since, too / enough, such, despite, unless, in case.

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Look back at Year 9: Use of English from Year 9 – Word Families, Tricky Words and Keyword Transformation (first steps).