Y6
GPS
Using Formal and Informal Styles Homework
Worksheet
Homework
Y6
GPS
Using Formal and Informal Styles Homework
Worksheet
Homework
Show your children the difference between formal and informal writing structures and styles with this Year 6 Using Formal and Informal Styles homework resource. The worksheet features three fun and engaging questions that are differentiated to three levels of challenge. With this resource, your children can replace vocabulary to change writing style, complete sentences in a required formality, and determine whether language and style choices are appropriate for a certain type of communication.
This activity is perfect for use after our modelling PPT, VF and AR worksheets, and would be great used as an extension in class, or being sent out as homework. Download today to try it out.
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]
