Subjects
English
The official syllabus chapters for English in 3AS: 95 notions, the method, the common mistakes and the kind of exercise that comes up at the BAC.
- 11 Ancient Civilizations notions
- Vocabulary — ancient civilizations & heritage
- Narrating the past — Simple Past tense & 'ago'
- Past habits & modal-past substitutes — used to / had to / was able to
- Comparatives & superlatives with quantifiers
- Expressing concession
- Expressing time relations
- Word formation — suffixes & prefixes (verb/noun/adj derivation, opposites)
- Describing people/things with well + past participle
- Production — guided expository essay
- Production — narrative text / story
- Production — short historical account
- 12 Ethics in Business notions
- Vocabulary — business ethics, corruption, fraud, counterfeiting
- Expressing condition — providing/provided that/as long as
- Expressing regret, desire for change & complaint
- Giving advice — should / ought to / had better / if I were you
- Production — public statement (spoken/written)
- Passive voice (simple & continuous) to express result
- Obligation, necessity, prohibition & absence of obligation
- Word formation — suffixes -y/-ty, opposite-forming prefixes & stress shift
- Reported speech — reporting statements
- Production — opinion article
- Reference-word resolution & guessing meaning from context (Ethics in Business)
- Production — policy statement (ethical investments)
- 13 Advertising, Consumers and Safety notions
- Vocabulary — consumer safety, food, GMOs, advertising
- Expressing certainty, probability & possibility
- Gerund (-ing) vs present simple — choosing the correct form
- Word formation — nouns from verbs
- Verbs with dependent prepositions
- Hypothesis & condition — 2nd conditional
- Expressing quantity — enough/too much/too many/few
- Production — persuasive speech
- Expressing cause and effect
- Word formation — forming adjectives from nouns with suffix -y
- Production — expository article on food safety
- Production — letter of complaint
- Production — writing an advertisement
- 21 Education and Career Choices notions
- Vocabulary — education systems & professional career choices
- 2nd conditional — hypothesizing about study/career choices
- Expressing wish and desire — I wish / I'd like
- Warnings with 'unless'
- Obligation & advice for study/career choices — must/have to/should
- Reading strategy — identifying word meaning from context (education passages)
- Word formation — adjective suffixes -ive/-al
- Collocations about school/education
- Comparatives of long & short adjectives (education systems)
- Quantity with most/all/few (comparing education systems)
- Comparing & contrasting — similar to / like / unlike
- Present passive voice (descriptive/procedural text)
- Sequencing devices — first, then, next, finally
- Noun formation with -ing and -tion/-ation
- Production — checklist of recommendations
- Production — composing & reciting a wish poem
- Production — descriptive letter (school/ideal school)
- Production — summarizing a talk/lecture
- Reading strategy — diagram interpretation & paragraphing ideas
- Reading strategy — identifying logical relationships between sentences
- Production — expository article on causes & effects of exam stress
- 15 Astronomy and the Solar System notions
- Vocabulary — astronomy, the solar system, space exploration
- Describing purpose — used for + gerund / in order to + base verb
- Forming questions about measurement — how far/how long/how big...?
- Word formation — singular/plural noun formation from verbs & stress patterns
- Comparatives of superiority & equality (short/long adjectives & adverbs)
- Expressing contrast — whereas/while/on the other hand/however
- Describing similarities & differences between planets/objects
- Expressing hypothesis/supposition about space phenomena
- Non-conclusive (stative) verbs — verbs that resist the continuous form
- Word formation — plural noun formation (regular & irregular) & pronunciation of final -s/-es
- Reading strategy — guessing word meaning from context
- Production — oral presentation
- Production — predictive essay (consequences of a comet collision)
- Reading strategy — scanning for detail & identifying type of discourse (argumentative)
- Production — newspaper article on the space-exploration budget
- 16 Feelings and Emotions notions
- Vocabulary — feelings, emotions, humour, happiness
- Reported speech — reporting questions
- Reported speech — reporting instructions/orders
- Obligation, prohibition & advice about feelings/behaviour
- Articles with abstract nouns (happiness, humour, love)
- Word formation — deriving adjectives/verbs from nouns; pronunciation of 'h' & 'ngth' cluster
- Expressing likes/dislikes/preferences
- Reciprocal pronouns — each other / one another
- Quantifiers with emotion/abstract nouns
- Word formation — suffixes -ness/-ful/-ous/-ic
- Reading strategy — distinguishing facts from opinions & identifying organisational pattern
- Reading strategy — making inferences beyond the literal text
- Production — letter of advice
- Production — newspaper article about feelings
- Production — formal speech
- Production — book/film review article
- 7 Exam Skills and Methodology notions
- Detail comprehension — True/False & WH-question answering with justification
- Reference-word resolution (it/they/that/which/this)
- Global comprehension — text type, title, gist & idea/paragraph sequencing
- Lexical exploration — synonyms & antonyms in context
- Word formation — root/prefix/suffix analysis & derivation table
- Sentence-level toolkit — connectors, sentence combining, question formation, reported-speech transformation
- Written expression method — prompt analysis, guided drafting & genre craft