Click to enlargeVocabulary 1 Testbook
Tests every word in Vocabulary 1 the way the exam does.
- Tests every item in its course book the way the exam does
- Full answer key, independently re-checked question by question
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How this book is used in our course
English books are worked in short daily sessions rather than one long sitting. For vocabulary, the child covers the meaning, says it aloud, then checks; words that are missed go on a card for the week. For comprehension and cloze, the child attempts the passage under a loose time, then marks against the key and rewrites any answer that lost marks.
Where it sits in the series
- Previous book in the series: Book 1, Vocabulary 1
- Next book in the series: Book 3, English Rules 1
What's inside English Mastery 2
Five real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 9 sample pages are in the viewer.
Every word in Vocabulary 1, tested in the same order, with a Mixed Review after every five tests.
Word Test 1 is Abandon to Affluent; Word Test 25 is Inhospitable to Iridescent, and the book carries on to Z. Each test covers about 24 words from the course book, so a child tests exactly what they learnt that week. After every five tests, a Mixed Review re-tests the same words with different synonyms and antonyms, which is how the book checks they are learnt rather than remembered for a day.
Three parts to every test, and the trap in each one is named before the child meets it.
Part A, Same Meaning: one option is often an opposite, a favourite 11+ trap. Part B, Opposite Meaning: this time one option is often a synonym. Part C, Words in Context: every sentence is new, not the example from the course book, so the child has to know the word, not recognise it. Secure is 90% or more; below 70% means re-learn the words in the course book. Attempt 2 two or three days later, attempt 3 a week later, wrong questions only.
ABATE: float, order, subside, intensify. The antonym is sitting in the synonym question.
Eight synonym questions, then eight antonym questions, four options each, laid out the way GL and CEM papers lay them out. In every question one wrong answer is the opposite of the right one: abate, subside or intensify; abduct, kidnap or release; abolish, scrap or introduce. A child who learnt the Baby word picks the right one without thinking. A child who half-learnt the word picks the trap.
Then the words in new sentences, which is the only test that proves a word is known.
"The school hall can ____ three hundred parents for the concert." "My uncle decided to ____ from chocolate for a whole month." "Dust will ____ under your bed if you never clean there." Six words in a box, six sentences, each word used once. None of the sentences is in the course book, so recognition is no help; only meaning is.
Every answer, every test, letter and word.
Forty answers per Word Test, laid out four to a line, letter and word together so a child marking their own work cannot mis-read a B for a D. "1 C Subside, 2 B Kidnap, 3 D House, 4 A Scrap." A test is marked in under two minutes, the scorecard filled in, and the wrong words go back to the course book that evening.
Every word test in the book follows the pattern shown here.
Other Year 4 books in English Mastery
Vocabulary 1
The first word list: each word with a child-friendly meaning, synonyms, antonyms and a sentence.
English Rules 1
Grammar and punctuation rules taught one at a time, with examples a child can copy.
Vocabulary 2
992 words in 25 alphabetical sets, with meanings, synonyms, antonyms and sentences.
Vocabulary 2 Testbook
Tests every word in Vocabulary 2.