Year 10 English
Formal and informal writing, connectors across a whole passage, keeping one tense, reporting a question or command, conditionals and past modals, complex punctuation, grammar inside a passage, the precise word, reading across paragraphs, and a formal letter or a continued story.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Writing: composition
- Formal and informal registerLesson
Choose formal or informal wording to suit who you are writing to.
- Connectors between sentencesLesson
Link ideas across sentences with the connector that shows the right relationship.
- Keeping the tense consistentLesson
Spot the verb that breaks the tense of a passage, and correct it.
- Formal letters: complaint and enquiryLesson
Lay out a formal letter, and write one that complains or enquires in the right register.
- Continuing a storyLesson
Carry on a story that somebody else began, keeping its narrator, its tense and everything it has already established.
Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
- 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.
- Reported questions and commandsLesson
Report a question, a request and a command, using the right reporting verb and word order.
- 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.
- Choosing the precise wordLesson
Replace a vague intensifier and a weak adjective with the single word that says it properly.
- 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.