Year 7 English

Build a new word by adding a prefix or a suffix, and say what the new word means.

Find a word by alphabetical order and guide words, read what its entry tells you, and use a thesaurus to find a better word.

Recognise and form the present continuous, past continuous and present perfect.

Choose the modal verb that carries the right meaning — ability, permission, obligation, advice or possibility.

Work out what a verb plus a small word means together, and put the object in the right place.

Choose the, a, an or no article at all, and pick between few and a few, little and a little, either and neither.

Spot an adverb, name its kind — manner, place, time, frequency or degree — and tell it apart from the adjective it was built from.

Form the comparative and superlative of an adjective — with -er and -est, with more and most, or by learning the irregular ones.

Choose the preposition that a particular verb, adjective or noun always keeps beside it.

Tell a simile, a metaphor and personification apart, and explain what each one means.

Find the real subject of a long sentence and make the verb agree with it, even when words come in between or the order is turned round.

Count the clauses in a sentence and name it simple, compound or complex.

Join clauses with the right conjunction, and link sentences with the right connector.

Rewrite a sentence in another form — statement, question, exclamation or negative — without changing what it means.

Add the right question tag to a statement — negative after a positive, positive after a negative, using the statement's own helping verb.

Find what a passage is mainly about, tell a supporting detail apart from the main idea, and separate what a passage says from what it does not.

Turn a passage into short notes under headings, and write a summary that keeps the meaning in far fewer words.

Build a paragraph from a topic sentence, supporting sentences and a closing sentence, and keep everything in it about one idea.

Lay out a friendly letter in its usual parts, and keep the language warm rather than official.