English Prep Book 1

by Susan Elkin

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 young users of English. Each themed chapter, from Sport to Fantasy, is planned around a sparky fictional extract from Dickens, Adele Geras, Robert Westall and others. Grammar, punctuation, spelling, oral work and wider reading are all systematically covered.

96 pages, Paperback

Published April 8, 2004

About the author

A secondary English teacher for decades, Susan is now a full time author and journalist - among other things she is Education and Training Editor at The Stage. Her passions include donkeys, irises, colours, Anthony Trollope, onion chutney, Shakespeare, goats, words, ducks, Dvorak, bassoons and much more. She lives with her husband of many years and is the mother of two grown-up sons. Susan's latest book 'Please Miss We're Boys' tell the story of her hair-raising first five years in teaching when she was Danielle in the lions' den trying to cope with sex-crazed pupils in a challenging all boys' school in Deptford in 1968.