Y6
GPS
Formal and Informal Vocabulary Mixed Activity
Worksheet
Y6
GPS
Formal and Informal Vocabulary Mixed Activity
Worksheet
Download this Year 6 Formal and Informal Vocabulary Mixed Activity worksheet to see how confident your children are with using different styles of writing. It has three varied fluency, two reasoning and one application question focusing on the different vocabulary we would use in formal and informal writing.
This worksheet is suitable for independent, small group or paired work. An answer sheet is provided in a child-friendly way to allow for peer or self marking to make marking and misconception checking quicker and easier.
Curriculum Objectives
- Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Recognising vocabulary and structures that is appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms
- The difference between vocabulary typical of informal speech and vocabulary appropriate for formal speech and writing [for example, find out – discover; ask for – request; go in – enter]
- The difference between structures typical of informal speech and structures appropriate for formal speech and writing [for example, the use of question tags: He’s your friend, isn’t he?, or the use of subjunctive forms such as If I were or Were they to come in some very formal writing and speech]
