Year 9 English
Conditionals and past modals, keeping one tense across a passage, reported questions and commands, and precise word choice for the right register — plus subordinate and relative clauses, complex punctuation, editing at sentence level, and reading between the lines before writing a formal letter or continuing a story.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Language: grammar and vocabulary
- Conditionals: zero, first and secondLesson
Choose the right verb forms for a zero, first or second conditional sentence.
- Modals in the pastLesson
Use should have, must have, could have and might have to talk about what happened, or what did not.
- Keeping the tense consistentLesson
Spot the verb that breaks the tense of a passage, and correct it.
- Reported questions and commandsLesson
Report a question, a request and a command, using the right reporting verb and word order.
- Choosing the precise wordLesson
Replace a vague intensifier and a weak adjective with the single word that says it properly.
- Formal and informal registerLesson
Choose formal or informal wording to suit who you are writing to.
Language: text structure and punctuation
- Noun, adjective and adverb clausesLesson
Name a subordinate clause by the job it does in its sentence.
- 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.
- Integrated grammar: filling gaps in a passageLesson
Work out what kind of word a gap needs from the words around it, and fill it in the right form.
- Editing at sentence levelLesson
Find the fault in a whole sentence — a missing word, a needless one, or a word standing in the wrong place — and put it right.