Grade 9 English Textbook Vocabulary

These are vocabulary flashcards for Grade 9 English Textbook.

Big City

A big city has a lot on offer for you to make your life a pleasant experience.

Act on

To take action because of something like information received.

Act out

To perform something with actions and gestures

Learning Strategies

Plans that learners consciously have recourse to in order to help them learn more effectively.

Motivation

The secret to success is that you should be motivated to learn.

Time Management

To manage your time successfully, having an awareness of what your goals are will assist you in prioritizing your activities.

Reward

A reward for yourself that you can look forward to.

Collocation

A pair or group of words that always goes together.

Connectors

Connectors create coherence in a paragraph making words, phrases, and sentences logically interweave among each other.

Modal Verbs

Modal verbs express ideas such as future ideas, permission, possibility, prediction, speculation, deduction and necessity, etc.

Simple Past Tense

An action which was completed in the past.

Past continuous tense

A past action, but which was in progress at a certain time in the past.

Synonyms

Words having nearly the same meaning.

Antonyms

Words that have opposite meanings

Conditional Sentences

Shows possible outcomes in certain conditions.

Zero Conditional

Used to express facts.

Conditional type 1

Are also called facts, while conditional type 1 is probable.

Horticulture

Has also been defined as a science that involves the art and science of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants.

Horticulture

Horticulture refers to the cultivation, processing, and sale of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and ornamental plants.

Second Conditional Sentences

Sentences have the verb forms simple past in the if-clause and conditional (would/ should/ could/ might + infinitive) in the main clause.

Third Conditional Sentences

sentence has past perfect verb form in the if-clause and would/ could/ should/ might +have+ past participle (modal perfect tense) in the main clause.

Communicable Diseases

The most common factors include communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, malaria and others.

Frequency adverbs

Describe how often an action happens.

Poverty

Disease and human suffering has been something that humans.

Community Service

To provide help without expecting payment.

Tag Questions

The parts of the sentences ‘don’t we?’ and ‘is it? are tag questions.

Simple Past Tense

Shows an action which was completed in the past.

Past Continuous Tense

Involves a past action, but which was in progress at a certain time in the past.

Third Conditional Sentences

A sentence has past perfect verb form in the if-clause and would/ could/ should/ might +have+ past participle (modal perfect tense) in the main clause

Simple Present Tense

It expresses habitual actions, future actions and other functions.

Present Continuous Tense

are used for actions that are being completed now. It is also used to express future actions.

Wh- Questions

It created using who, what, where, why, when, which, and how.

Yes/No- Questions

Are the questions formed by using the ‘do verbs’ (do, does, did), ‘have verbs’ (has, have, had), and modal verbs

Rising Intonation

A rising intonation would be used mainly for yes/ no questions and question tags showing uncertainty and requiring answers. It invites the speaker to continue speaking.

Falling Intonation

Wh-questions (information questions), confirmatory question tags are commonly produced in falling intonation.

Phrasal Verb

It made up of a verb and usually a preposition or an adverb.

Prefix

Prefixes are sets of letters that are added to the beginning of words.

Suffix

Suffixes are word parts that are added at the ends of root words, and form new words which can be nouns, verb forms, adjectives and adverbs.

Simple Past Tense

Shows an action which was completed in the past.

Regular Verbs and Irregular Verbs

IThe verb adds -d or –ed are called regular verbs, while the others are called irregular verbs