Basic Practising Skills in English

Basic Practising Skills in English: With Worksheets and Exercises is intended for primary school learners. Each of its ten chapters features a reading passage, a new word reading list, a list of unfamiliar phrases, a listen and talk activity, a free writing or creative exercise, and a comprehension writing exercise.


The reading passages provide practice in reading skills such as fluency, clarity, articulation, pronunciation, and fast reading pace. The new word section helps students read and spell words, gain word familiarisation, word meanings, and word use in sentences. Unfamiliar phrases show how to deduce meanings of phrases as used in a passage or in full sentences. Listen and talk activity offers practice in listening and talking skills, turn taking, being attentive, oral comprehension, and use of non-verbal cues. Creative writing/composition writing exercises deliver practice in free form writing, creative or critical thinking, and in composing coherent sentences. Comprehension writing exercises test reading, memory, comprehension, and writing skills in response to questions within a passage.