Native language surveyors for 8th grade

The reader is holding the fourth volume of Tinta Könyvkiadó's Mother Tongue Surveyors series for 8th graders. Workbooks up to the 12th grade are useful help for teachers and students alike. Each series of exercises starts from a text with comprehension, grammar and spelling tasks. The tasks to be solved are related to the topic of the text. Some examples practice the interpretation of sayings and proverbs, dialects, foreign words. The initial texts of the surveyors include a call for proposals, an educational dissertation on etymology, or an excerpt from a dictionary. They also allow workbook users to get an impression of different text styles and their characteristics. Each set of tasks is closed by some playful language practice. As a specific point can be given to the tasks, the individual worksheets can be used as a competition task, as well as as an examination, but they can also be useful for practicing and expanding knowledge. Although the sets of tasks are made for an individual solution, they can be solved, further thought and supplemented with a small idea and transformation, even in pairs. If you want to use the workbook for independent practice at home, you can also do so, as the publication also includes solving the tasks. For each task, you will find how many points you can give for a flawless solution. The tasks provide useful help in practicing comprehension, spelling, grammar, expanding vocabulary, developing mother tongue competence, and in addition, entertain. The compiler of the workbook, Judit Raátz, author of popular textbooks and native language textbooks, is a senior staff member at the Institute of Linguistics. The assignments were reviewed by Judit Nemoda, a leading Hungarian teacher with decades of teaching experience.