Year 11 English

The passive in every tense, naming a subordinate clause by its job, tenses and agreement across a whole passage, reporting a full conversation, small words in a gap-fill, the sentence rebuilt in every shape, editing a passage to its last mistake and the errors that come round again and again — plus reading a passage closely and writing a summary, an analytical paragraph or a letter to an official.

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Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

The passive in every tenseLesson
Form the passive in any tense, and with a modal verb or an imperative.
Noun, adjective and adverb clausesLesson
Name a subordinate clause by the job it does in its sentence.
Editing and proofreadingLesson
Find and correct the single error in a line — grammar, spelling or punctuation.
Changing a word's part of speechLesson
Turn a word into a noun, adjective, verb or adverb by changing its ending.
Tenses across a passageLesson
Choose the tense each gap in a passage needs, using the time signals around it.
Agreement with harder subjectsLesson
Make the verb agree when the subject is a quantity, a fraction, an inverted phrase or a subject buried in an added phrase.
Small words in a gap-fillLesson
Fill the articles, determiners and prepositions an exam-style gap-fill leaves out.
Reporting a whole conversationLesson
Report several turns of a conversation, keeping the tense shift, the pronouns and the reporting verbs consistent throughout.
Simple, compound and complex — in both directionsLesson
Rewrite a sentence as simple, compound or complex without changing what it means.
The errors that come round again and againLesson
Name the kind of mistake a faulty line contains — agreement, tense, article, preposition or word form — and then correct it.

Reading: comprehension

Reading a passage closelyLesson
Answer questions on an extract — what it states, what it implies, and what its words mean there.

Writing: composition