Class 8 English
A full year: voice and reported speech, modals and the tense a piece of writing needs, how clauses are punctuated and questioned, the words that trip everyone up, and reading and writing with a purpose.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Voice and Speech
- 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.
Verbs and Modals
- 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.
Sentence Structure
- 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.
- Comparison structuresLesson
Compare with as … as, than, twice as … as and the more … the more, and build each of them into a whole sentence.
- 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.
Words and Meaning
- 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.
Reading and Writing
- Reading: why the writer wrote itLesson
Work out why a piece was written and who it was written for, and say what a particular sentence in it is doing.
- Writing a notice and a messageLesson
Set out a notice and a telephone message in their usual parts, and keep both of them short, factual and impersonal.