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, questions and comparisons, commas with clauses, and reading a writer's purpose before writing a notice or a message.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tense in stories and in reportsLesson
Choose the tense a piece of writing needs — the past for a story or a report, the present for instructions and general facts, and the past perfect for what happened earlier still.
- Comparison structuresLesson
Compare with as … as, than, twice as … as and the more … the more, and build each of them into a whole sentence.
- Quantifiers: how much and how manyLesson
Choose the quantifier that fits the noun and the amount — all, most, some, none, both, several, plenty — and know when it needs "of" after it.
- 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.
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.
- Asking questionsLesson
Build a question from a statement — moving the helping verb, adding do, does or did, and spotting the questions that need no helping verb at all.
- Commas with clausesLesson
Put the comma where a clause needs one — after a clause that comes first, around an extra piece of information, and between two main clauses joined by a joining word.