Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders, SPUAJ001
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders Unit 3: Word classes and their relations,
sentence structures, word order. Teiresiás MU 2017. Supported by Fond rozvoje MU 2016. Intended
solely for classroom use and self-study.
Unit 3: Word classes, sentence
structures, word order
Word classes and their relations, word order, sentence
structures.
1) Match slovní druhy with word classes
Slovní druhy Word classes
podstatná jména prepositions
přídavná jména pronouns
zájmena articles
číslovky adverbs
slovesa adjectives
příslovce verbs
předložky conjunctions
spojky nouns
částice determiners
citoslovce connectives
http://slovnidruhy.cz/
What word is missing?
My uncle doesn’t _________________ cooking.
_______ wife cooks very well.
They live in a ____________ house in the country.
They both love working _____ the garden and quite often they spend
__________ day there.
_______ garden is beautiful and full of ______________.
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders, SPUAJ001
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders Unit 3: Word classes and their relations,
sentence structures, word order. Teiresiás MU 2017. Supported by Fond rozvoje MU 2016. Intended
solely for classroom use and self-study.
(taken from http://www.thinkingchild.org.uk/how-difficult-is-it-to-quickly-improve-the-quality-of-students-
writing/)
2) Use the cards - words and form any sentence. They must be correct.
(Working with cards, forming sentences)
Word order in positive sentences
Basic word order in statements:
subject verb(s) object
I speak English
I can speak English
S V O
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders, SPUAJ001
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders Unit 3: Word classes and their relations,
sentence structures, word order. Teiresiás MU 2017. Supported by Fond rozvoje MU 2016. Intended
solely for classroom use and self-study.
Examples:
We sell flowers.
They sing a song.
You must read the book.
Word order in longer statements:
subject verb(s) indirect object direct object place time
I will tell you the story at school tomorrow.
S V O O adverbials – M - matter (How?)
P - place (Where?)
T - time (When?)
S V O M P T (mnemonic device)
Examples:
The coach will meet us outside the school gates at 8.30 in the
morning.
Our friends waited for us after the concert yesterday evening.
The train to Perth has just arrived at platform 2.
(taken from https://www.ego4u.com/)
a) Arrange the words to make affirmative sentences (positive or
negative).
1 in Greece / spend / I / will / next year / my holiday
2 play / in the bar / did / he / last week / not / the piano
3 wrote / last week / they / at school / a test
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders, SPUAJ001
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders Unit 3: Word classes and their relations,
sentence structures, word order. Teiresiás MU 2017. Supported by Fond rozvoje MU 2016. Intended
solely for classroom use and self-study.
4 give / the present / tomorrow / we / him / will
5 not / the truth / did / he / tell / you
6 must / at five o'clock / leave / we / the house
7 feed / you / my / cat / can
8 the library / take / I / the book / will / today / to
9 to a party / not / we / tonight / going / are
10 tonight / want / to the cinema / to go / we
Word order in questions
interrogative
auxiliary
verb
subject
other
verb(s)
indirect
object
direct
object
place time
What would you like to
tell
me
Did you have a
party
in
your
flat
yesterday?
When were you here?
(taken from https://www.ego4u.com/)
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders, SPUAJ001
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders Unit 3: Word classes and their relations,
sentence structures, word order. Teiresiás MU 2017. Supported by Fond rozvoje MU 2016. Intended
solely for classroom use and self-study.
b) Make questions asking about the information in bold:
1 Amy crossed the street at the traffic lights.
2 My girlfriend has worked in Italy since 2010.
3 Most tourists did not see the monster Nessi in Loch Ness.
4 He will probably come back tomorrow.
5 David had to visit his grandmother as she was ill.
3) Read the following text and choose the correct word for each space
from the box. There is ONE WORD you will not need:
Women and Science
ANYONE, BUT, INVENTED, MADE, OBSERVED,
OPPORTUNITIES, SCIENTIST, TIME, WAS, WHERE
It is difficult to understand why, but women and science are not
automatically associated with each other, even though the first woman 1
____________ was born in Alexandria, in Egypt, in 370 A.D. Her name
was Hypatia, and her father, who was the director of Alexandria’s
University, 2 ____________ sure his daughter had the best education
available. It was not normal, at this time, for women to have 3
____________ to study, and after studying in Athens and Rome, she
returned to Alexandria, 4 ____________ she taught mathematics. She
became famous for her knowledge of new ideas, and wrote several
important mathematical works, 5 ____________ no copies of her books
have survived. Hypatia was interested in technology and 6
____________ several scientific tools to help with her work, but this
story has an unhappy ending.
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders, SPUAJ001
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders Unit 3: Word classes and their relations,
sentence structures, word order. Teiresiás MU 2017. Supported by Fond rozvoje MU 2016. Intended
solely for classroom use and self-study.
Many rulers of that 7 ____________ were afraid of science, and 8
____________ connected with it was in danger. As a consequence, her
life was at risk and one day in March 415, she
9 ____________ attacked in the street and killed.
(taken from http://www.englishaula.com/en/pet-reading-part-5-exam-2-multiple-choice-cloze-the-first-
woman-scientist.html)
4) Fill in the text using the correct form of the given word:
What is anthropology?
Anthropology distinguishes itself from the other social sciences by its
greater 1 ____________ on fieldwork as the source of new
2 ____________ . The aim of such studies is to develop as intimate an
understanding as possible of the phenomena investigated. Although the
3 ____________ of field studies varies from a few weeks to years, it is
generally agreed that anthropologists should stay in the field long enough
for their 4 ____________ to be considered ‘natural’ by the permanent
5 ____________.
Realistically, however, anthropologists may never reach this status. Their
foreign mannerisms make them appear clownish, and so they are treated
with 6 ____________ and 7 ____________. If they speak the local
language at all, they do so with a strange accent and flawed grammar.
They ask 8 ____________ questions and inadvertently break rules
regarding how things are usually done. 9 ____________ this could be
an interesting starting point for research, though it is rarely exploited.
1. EMPHASIZE
2. KNOW
3. LONG
4. PRESENT
5. RESIDE
6. CURIOUS
7. AMUSE
8. TACT
9. ARGUE
(taken from https://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/TOEFL_reading6.htm)
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders, SPUAJ001
Academic Reading for Students with Learning Disorders Unit 3: Word classes and their relations,
sentence structures, word order. Teiresiás MU 2017. Supported by Fond rozvoje MU 2016. Intended
solely for classroom use and self-study.
Determiners
http://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2009060203-co-jsou-to-
determinatory-determiners
Další možnost definování slovních druhů v angličtině
http://bil6014partsofspeech2.blogspot.cz/2013/12/introduction-to-parts-
of-speech.html
Shrnutí (pp prezentace) – vhodná k opakování slovních druhů
v angličtině i s příklady
http://www.slideshare.net/keepitsurreal/english-language-terminology-
word-lasses
Další PP prezentace zajímavě pojaté vysvětlení o druzích slov
http://www.slideshare.net/gohbangrui/english-language-word-class
„chunks“
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/chunks
Connectives and conjunctions
http://www.grammarbank.com/connectives-list.htm
Wordlist of c+c
http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/literacy/vocabulary/word-
lists/connectives/#.WIYlKfnhDcs