SERIES GUIDE

Use this guide as a quick reference to the contents of Study English Series 2

EPISODE / THEME STRATEGIES WRITING GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION

Episode One pronoun substitution and homonyms homographs and
Eye Testing agreement subjects, objects homophones; suffixes: -able, -
HEALTH and possessive adjectives ist, -ism
Episode Two using say for quoting,
Ginseng exemplifying, narrowing down
MEDICINE and a filler; collocations
Episode Three
prepositions spatial relationships
Jarrah Forest Idioms proverbs
in descriptions
ENVIRONMENT
Episode Four paragraph structure: topic,
Clouds supporting, developing weather-related vocabulary
SCIENCE sentences; cohesion; coherence
Episode Five fluency in spoken
there introductory subject and
Virtual Doctor English; linking: V+ /j/ +
adverb of place
MEDICINE V and V + /w/ + V
Episode Six writing task 1 (academic) describing how something
Lasers works: structure and language colour vocabulary
TECHNOLOGY features
Episode Seven
Life on Mars determiners: some and any astronomy vocabulary
ASTRONOMY
Episode Eight verbs: present perfect and simple
Air Archive past tenses; adverbs of time: just,
ENVIRONMENT already, yet
Episode Nine grammar and spelling of
pronunciation of and
Whale Sharks contractions; quantity words:
stress in contractions
ECOTOURISM amount, number
Episode Ten
demonstrative and reflexive
Durians
pronouns
AGRICULTURE
Episode Eleven speaking section 3: expressions
future forms: verb tenses, modals, discourse markers: speculating,
Mangroves for speculation, prediction,
conditionals, adverbs, adjectives predicting
ECOLOGY talking about the future
Episode Twelve degree or amount
Cane Toads constructions: so (that); attitude markers
ECOLOGY such (that)
Episode Thirteen
word form groups and their words which can be both
Welding
INDUSTRY function nouns and verbs

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Episode Fourteen writing tasks 1 and 2 using the simple present tense expressions describing
Termites (academic): text types and and plural subjects / noun complementary processes: the + a
ECOLOGY language structures phrases in the IELTS essay comparative, the + a comparative
Episode Fifteen speaking section 1: features of a word relationships: synonyms,
Astronomer good response opposites and scales
ASTRONOMY
Episode Sixteen speaking section 3: features of a double negatives negative prefixes: dis, un
Glass Artist good response
FINE ART
reading skills and strategies:
Episode Seventeen skimming, scanning,
Naturopathic Medicine understanding main ideas;
MEDICINE answering T/F/NG type
questions
Episode Eighteen expressing contrast and
Outback Tourism concession; hyphens in compound
TOURISM words
functions in a text: stating a fact,
Episode Nineteen
giving an opinion, making a
Old Trees
proposal or suggestion, giving
ECOLOGY
an example
Episode Twenty infinitive verb constructions conversation management
Zoos markers
ZOOLOGY
listening skills and strategies
Episode Twenty One answering IELTS question
Health types: multiple choice, short
HEALTH answers, summary completion,
gap-fill, diagram labelling etc.
Episode Twenty Two guessing the meaning of a word linking or copular verb + subject
Phonics from the context; identifying key complement
EDUCATION words
pronunciation changes
Episode Twenty Three
when linking
Eco-Systems
consonants;
SCIENCE
pronunciation of words
&TECHNOLOGY
beginning with /h/
Episode Twenty Four -ly adverbs and their function foreign words and phrases in
Employment English
EMPLOYMENT

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Episode Twenty Five overview of task 1 academic analysing task 1 questions and
WRITING TASK 1 writing planning an answer
Academic Module
Episode Twenty Six overview of task 1 general analysing the letter and planning
WRITING TASK 1 training writing an answer
GENERAL TRAINING
MODULE

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