Grammar - English Language A Level Unit

A 9 lesson unit comprising a 68 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (8 include a text or texts for analysis) and a summary terminology and theory sheet, exploring the topic of grammar. This unit can be used for any of the major exam boards.

Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a text (or revision cards for lesson 9), and a homework task. The following terminology is covered:

-Linguistic rank scale – morpheme, lexical item, phrase, clause, sentence, utterance and text
-Morphology – free and bound morphemes, suffixes, prefixes and affixes, derivational and inflectional processes
-Phrases - noun phrases, verb phrases, adjectival phrases, adverbial phrases and prepositional phrases
-Noun phrases – head word, pre-modification, post-modification and qualifier
-Verb phrases – main verb, auxiliary verb, negating participle, extension, primary, modal and semi-auxiliaries and catenative verbs
-Clauses – subject, verb, object, complement, adverbial
-Main and subordinate clauses, coordinating and subordinating clauses, relative clause
-Active and passive voice
-Sentence types – simple, compound, complex and compound-complex
-Sentence functions – declarative, interrogative, exclamative and imperative

The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.

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