Year 8 English
Active and passive voice, reported speech and reporting verbs, modals of obligation and probability, and the words that trip everyone up — plus phrases and clauses, relative clauses, agreement with a tricky subject, complex punctuation, and reading a writer’s purpose.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Language: grammar and vocabulary
- Active and passive voiceLesson
Tell active from passive, and change a sentence from one voice to the other.
- Modals of obligation and probabilityLesson
Say how strong an obligation is with must, have to, should and ought to, and say how sure you are with must, might and cannot.
- Vocabulary in contextLesson
Work out what an unfamiliar word means from the sentence around it.
- Words that are easy to confuseLesson
Choose correctly between words that sound alike or look alike — accept and except, affect and effect, advice and advise, its and it's, lose and loose.
- Direct and indirect speechLesson
Turn a spoken statement into reported speech, shifting the tense, the pronoun and the time words.
- Say, tell and other reporting verbsLesson
Choose the reporting verb that says what the speaker was really doing, and know which of them must name the listener straight afterwards.
Language: text structure and punctuation
- Phrases and clausesLesson
Tell a phrase from a clause, and a main clause from a subordinate one.
- Agreement with a tricky subjectLesson
Make the verb agree with its real subject, even when other words come in between.
- Defining and non-defining relative clausesLesson
Tell a clause that says which one from a clause that only adds extra information, and punctuate each correctly.
- Punctuating complex sentencesLesson
Place the commas, semicolons and full stops that a sentence of more than one clause needs.