English Reading and writing English as a primary school teaches it: phonics, blending and segmenting, tricky words, vowel teams, handwriting, plurals, -ed and -ing, suffixes and prefixes, silent letters, homophones and the famous spelling traps.
The questions of the English course of Mova's primary school: 60 lessons, 906 questions, every question and option parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: the course at school .
1 Sounds and letters: how phonics starts 16 questions · «my nan says u gotta learn the whole alphabet song before u can read, that's the rule innit». Is she right? 2 Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check 16 questions · «ma lad reads all the words but he couldn't tell ya what happened, like». What should his mum do? 3 Tricky words and common exception words 16 questions · «oi, look at the wall again and I'm tellin' Miss you're cheatin'». Is using the word wall cheating? 4 Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling 16 questions · «proper job, my lover! now read: the ___ was on the farm, cow or snow?». Which fits and why? 5 Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up 16 questions · «lefties write wrong, my nan says they made 'em use their right hand back in the day». What is true? 6 Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones 16 questions · «mate, it's 'two fishes and three sheeps', sounds right innit». Put him right. 7 Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e 16 questions · «I was hopping you'd come» says a birthday card. What did the writer mean, and what's the fix? 8 Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian 16 questions · «bruv, just write it how it sounds: televishun, stashun, mushun». What is the problem? 9 Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment 16 questions · «I'm tamping, I wrote happyly and she marked it wrong». What should Rhys remember? 10 i before e, silent letters and other famous traps 16 questions · «i before e except after c, always, no exceptions, sorted». What's the problem? 11 Homophones and near-homophones 16 questions · «ur welcome, mate, it's grand». Uncle says the sign's wrong. Why? 12 Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir- 16 questions · «I'm fixin' to misdo my homework cos I messed up». What should he say, and why? 13 Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea) 16 questions · «hundred words, innit, I'll learn 'em in alphabetical order, one night». What is better? 14 Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea) 16 questions · «I'll take your advise, then I'll practice». Which British spellings are right? 15 How to learn spellings that stick 16 questions · «write it out ten times, that's how we learned». Freddie wrote «becuase» ten times. What's the fix? 16 Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home 15 questions · ★★★ Kai's page: he can't read «enormous» and «gnarled», and doesn't know what «quarrel» means. He says, «Onl… 17 Retrieval: finding the answer in the text 15 questions · «miss the answer's literally first line, done, ez». Should you stop reading after the first line every time? 18 Inference: reading between the lines 15 questions · «she slammed the door so she's just tired innit». What's wrong with this inference? 19 Prediction: what happens next 14 questions · «she gasped so she heard a joke». Is that the best prediction? 20 Vocabulary in context 14 questions · «famished means full up, deffo». What context clue proves this wrong? 21 Author's choices: why this word, why this way 14 questions · «the author wrote 'Silence.' as a whole chapter cos he was being lazy lol». What's the best reply? 22 Reading a story: characters, plot and setting 14 questions · «Nell's just bored, that's why she got the towel». Which clue shows she is kind, not bored? 23 Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report 14 questions · «a recount is just a story innit». What's the difference? 24 Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries 14 questions · «Surely you agree?» Does the writer want an actual answer? 25 Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures 15 questions · «the tiger's literally on fire, that's why it's burning bright». What's the best reply? 26 Sentences: capital letters, full stops and the four types 15 questions · «miss, 'Get out!' is an exclamation cos it's got !» What's the best reply? 27 Word classes: the jobs words do 15 questions · «quickly's an adjective, it describes stuff, innit». What's the best reply? 28 Clauses: main, subordinate and joining words 14 questions · «'Because it was raining.' is a sentence cos it's got a full stop». What's the best reply? 29 Fronted adverbials 14 questions · «'after lunch we played' is fine, commas are optional innit». What should the pupil do? 30 Relative clauses 14 questions · «it's 'the boy which won', which is for everything innit». What's right? 31 Tense consistency and verb forms 15 questions · Your mate goes "tense is just for maths, innit, like tens and units." What is true? 32 Active and passive voice, modal verbs 15 questions · Your mate goes "passive is lazy, teachers hate it, no cap." ("No cap" means for real.) What is true? 33 Commas: lists, clauses and clarity 15 questions · Your mate goes "commas are just where you take a breath, innit." What is truer? 34 Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging 15 questions · Your mate says "apostrophes just mean there's an s coming, innit." What is wrong with that? 35 Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers 15 questions · Your mate goes "speech marks are for when people shout, innit." What is the truth? 36 Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens 15 questions · Your mate goes "brackets are for stuff that doesn't matter, so the teacher skips it." What is truer? 37 Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together 15 questions · Your mate goes "paragraphs are just there so the page looks less scary, bruv." What is the truth? 38 Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing 15 questions · Your mate laughs at the new kid's Glasgow accent and says "he can't even talk proper." What is wrong with th… 39 Planning before writing 15 questions · Your mate goes "planning is for people who can't write, mate." What is the truth? 40 Openings that hook the reader 15 questions · Your mate goes "first line don't matter, the teacher reads it all anyway, innit." What is the truth? 41 Describing: senses, showing and precise words 15 questions · Your mate goes "more adjectives means better writing, bro, just stack 'em." What is the truth? 42 Building tension and suspense 15 questions · Your mate goes "scary stories need loads of blood and gore or they're mid." ("Mid" means not very good.) Wha… 43 Editing and redrafting 15 questions · Your mate goes "editing is for people who mess up, I'm too good for it." What is the truth? 44 Writing to inform, instruct and persuade 15 questions · Your mate goes "all writing's the same, bruv, just write loads." What is the truth? 45 Poetry: rhyme and rhythm 15 questions · Tom, Gen Alpha, says "Poems are mid, they don't even rhyme sometimes." ("Mid" means not very good.) What is… 46 Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration 15 questions · Your mate says, "Metaphors are just lies, innit, the sun ain't a coin." Put him right. 47 Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing 15 questions · Your mate says, "Any short poem's a haiku, innit." Put him right. 48 Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell 15 questions · Jake says, "Show-and-tell's pointless if your thing's rubbish." Put him right. 49 Debating and discussion 15 questions · Josh says, "The loudest side wins, innit." Put him right. 50 Listening: following talk, asking good questions 15 questions · Your mate says, "Listening's easy, you just sit there and shut up." Put him right. 51 SATs: the reading paper 15 questions · Your mate says, "You gotta read every text super slow, three times, then answer." What is better? 52 SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper 15 questions · Your mate says, "Grammar words are useless, you just talk, innit." Put him right. 53 Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic" 15 questions · Your mate says, "Mess up SATs and you're stuck in Year 6 forever, bruv." ("Bruv" means mate.) Put him right. 54 Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer 15 questions · Your mate says, "You're born a writer or you're not, end of." Put him right. 55 Olympiad: the Spelling Bee 15 questions · Your mate says, "Asking for the origin is a waste of time, innit." Put him right. 56 Olympiad: word puzzles anagrams, palindromes, word ladders — 15 questions · Kai says FLYTABLE is a word; his sister says, "Nah, that's not a word, bruv." Who is right? 57 Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words 15 questions · Your mate: "Nothing's spelled wrong in a dictionary, innit, so the answer's 'nothing'." What is the trick? 58 Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages 15 questions · Your mate says, "You can't do UKLO unless you already speak loads of languages." Put him right. 59 Olympiad: real languages and codes 15 questions · Your mate says, "Swahili's like English, you just stick an -s on, innit: mtotos." Put him right. 60 Olympiad: tricky comprehension 15 questions · Jake reads "Dogs must be carried on the escalator" and panics: "But I haven't got a dog!" What did he get wr… ← previous Chinese streetnext → Euphemisms↑ back to the questions This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/