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This task assesses a student's ability to persuade an audience to agree with their opinion. Some speech topics and a checklist are provided.

This resource assesses knowledge of speaking techniques and students answer questions on the speech opening, control of audience, speech notes, and closing of speech.

This oral language resource has students matching debating terms and their definitions with extracts from a debate.

Students use a given example of a blurb about a book to create their own blurb for a book of their choice.

From a list of language techniques that writers use to emphasise a word or idea, students identify which ones have been used in some sentences and then write their own examples.

Students solve a number of mathematical problems involving money and distance, and compare the results to identify the cheapest taxi company.

This resource looks at a set of cooking instructions for making "Crispy Rounds".

Students read an advertisement for a website. Comprehension questions then require the student to explore the writers' use of metaphor and superlatives.

Students read a Junior Journal article about tree cutting. From their comprehension of the story they complete a retrieval chart and explain the figurative language used.

The context of this task is a story about a power cut. Students identify the changing feelings of the children in the story and record these as a graph over time.

Students use an index from a book on windsurfing to explain their understandings of an index and to find specific information.

Students read fifteen statements and identify the six statements of opinion.

An account of a fishing adventure in a lagoon provides the content for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

Students take an entry from a library catalogue and answer questions about the various features of the catalogue entry.

Students match eight descriptions of non-fiction books to the correct type of reference book.

Students use information in a table about exploding bottles of ginger beer to find the fractions and percentages of bottles that exploded or stayed sealed in given weeks.

This resource assesses the student's ability to interpret the visual elements of a Water Safety Poster. There are questions on font, logos, and language features.

Students break amounts into a number of equal sized groups.

Students choose a proverb from a list, then prepare and make a short speech explaining the proverb's message. The assessment focus is on explaining an idea, using an example and personal opinion. ARB scoring guides B and C are suitable for this task.

Students read the poem 'Hide-and-go-seek' to make inferences about the game. SJ-3-2-1996. Text provided.

For this NEMP task students look at a picture of a bicycle and write an advertisement to sell the bike in a newspaper column.

This is a resource in which the students read a short story 'The Reading Room' and answer ten short written questions. SJ-3-1-1998. Text provided.

Students read a visual and written text about native plants and animals to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students complete a cloze passage with 20 blanks on polio to create well-formed sentences.

A contents page from a book on windsurfing is used by students to identify where to go to for specific information.