Publisher's Synopsis
English involves reading, questioning, writing, speaking, listening, and developing techniques for using our splendid language creatively and with precision. This challenging book written for the Common Entrance syllabus at 11+ is a lively, fresh and rigorous route to all the skills, knowledge and understanding needed by good, young, users of English. Each themed chapter, from Sport to Fantasy, is planned round a sparky fictional extract from Dickens, Adele Geras, Robert Westall and others. Grammar, punctuation, spelling, oral work and wider reading are all systematically covered.
