English in Year 5 and Year 6 Speaking and Listening Reading Skills

... Year 6 children will take a reading test of about one hour, a grammar and punctuation test of about forty-five minutes, and a spelling test of twenty words. These will be sent away for marking, with the results coming back before the end of the year. Your child’s teacher will also make an assessment ...

Language Study: Pieces of a Puzzle

... Can you think of any words or expressions used by your parents (or grandparents) that are not used by you or your friends? What are they? ...

Notes on Chinese Characters 6

... antonyms, basically verbs. Jiu 就 means to touch, to make contact with, it suggests immediacy. In lesson 5 we saw that it meant immediacy in time, immediate sequence. In this lesson we see that it means immediacy in space. Thus, the third item on page 112 means “I am right here.” Accessible, availabl ...

Dimensions of politeness in Japanese

... (a) Copula in des- form (b) Verb suffix -mas- (conjugates as irregular verb: -mas-u, -masi-ta, -mas-eN NEG, -mas-yoo) (c) Adjectives: Inflection as usual (tense, negation) followed by copula desu (always in nonpast affirmative form) ...