Revision suggestions

Standard Grade Prelim

Choice of Revision• Continue stories we

have started• Choose a question

and do a quick plan: Beginning, middle, end

• Write opening paragraph and ending

• Create a character• Write in first person

narrative

• Choose a Close Reading and find examples of various techniques: punctuation etc.

• Look through the questions deciding what type of question they are

• Answer Qs of Close Reading

Create a Character• Physical/biological- age, height, size, state of

health, assets, flaws, sexuality, gait, voice

• Psychological- intelligence, temperament, happiness, attitudes, self-knowledge

• Interpersonal- family, friends, colleagues, birthplace, education, profession, hobbies, beliefs, values, lifestyle

• Personal history- major events in life, including the best and most traumatic

Prefix challenge

• Words beginning with re-

Expand your vocabulary

Give definitions of these words

• Extricate

• Eponymous

• Ennui

• Elope

• Elongate

• Excrement

• Epaulette

• Esoteric

• Esplanade

• Eulogy

• Etiquette

• Eradicate

• Recalcitrant

• Capybara

• Stentorian

• Facile

• lithe

• Androgynous

• Threshold

• Xenophobia

• Barbaric

• obdurate

• Arboretum

• Belated

• Calumny

• Ruminate

• Virulent

• Zealot

• Euphony

• Paragon

• Pathos

• Opulent

• Connubial

• Irrefutable

• Lustre

• Pachyderm

• Prerogative

• Striated

• Supercilious

• Usury

• Waif

• Zenith

• Reveille

• Redemption

• Redolent

• Raucous

• Retrospective

• Refraction

• Retribution

• Risible

• Retina

• Addendum

• Apoplectic

• Acerbic

• Acumen

• Acronychal

• Anachronism

• Accoutrements

• Astral

• Acquiesce

• Arboretum

• Capybara

• Caledonian

• Cabal

• Croupier

• Cursive

• Chronic

• Cutlass

• Cyan

• Chimera

• Chunter

Give definitions of these words

• Xenophobia • Zealot

• Allegory• Colonnade• Dowry• Flummox• Irreproachable• myopia

• Pariah• Septuagenarian• Whey• Servile• Labyrinth• Hirsute

• Chevron

• Demerit

• Catacomb

• Dromedary

• Encomium

• Fervour

• Foundling

• Haberdasher

• Lachrymose

• Pipistrelle