Things to be learnt in English for Term 2

Things to be learnt in Term 2: This was based on the handout given earlier this year. 

Unit 5: To Town

Vocabulary: vehicles, bulldozer, fire-engine, jumping stick, motor bike, vintage car, yellow, green, red, blue, orange, silver

High frequency words:

Will, go, way big, then

Grammar:

Possessive adjective: my

Preposition: in, on, over, up, down, between, into, out, over, beside, under

Adjectives: my(possessive), big

Question word: who, what, where

Demostratives: these, those

Phonics:

Blends: bl,

Consonants: v,j

Vowel: e, i, o

Unit 6: Smarty Pants

Vocabulary: aeroplane, jungle vine, mountain, racing car, thumb, trumpet, swimming pool

Grammar:

present tense: infinitive to followed by the verbs )go, fly, ski, swing, fall,

Base verbL as simple present tense, after modal “will” and after auxiliary verb “do”

Punctuation: full stop

Word identification:

Vowels: u as in “jug”

Consonants: j

Blends: sm, fl, sk

Term 2:

Unit 7:  The hungry Giant

Vocabulary: beehive, bees, bommy-knocker, bread, butter, giant, honey, hungry

High frequency words:

Some, or, so, with

Grammar:

Uncountable nouns: bread, butter, honey

Singular and plural

Contractions: that’s I’ll, don’t I’m, you’re, there’s

Conjunction: or, so

Phonics:

Consonants: g as in giant

Vowels: ee, ow

Unit 8: Crocodile Tea

Vocabulary: crocodile, elephant, lion, monkey, snake, tea, tiger, hippopotamus, numbers  1 – 10, animals and their homes

High frequency words:

Again, come, door

Grammar:

Adjectives: colours, size

Speech marks

Pronoun: we

Possessive pronoun: my, your, his, her

Phonics: m and n

Vowels: I as in hive

Unit 9: The Giant’s Ice-cream

Vocabulary: breakfast, lunch, dinner, purple, ice-cream, doorway, party, stuck

High frequency words: that

Grammar:

Countable and uncountable nouns.

Verb: -ing, simple past tense,

Pronouns: it, me

Adjectives: big, tough

Possessive: ‘s

Quantifier: some, much

Phonics:

Vowels, a, i, o

Blend: st

Unit 10: Jigaree:

Vocabulary: climbing, dancing, flying, jigaree, jumping, riding, skating, swimming

High frequency words: here, there, everywhere, after

Grammar: verbs: -ing form

Phonics: cl, sw