English resources

Students place photos of a canoe trip in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Students prepare a 2 to 3 minute speech, to inform, persuade, or entertain. Topics suitable for secondary students are provided. Assessment guides A, B, and C are suitable for this task.

This grammar resource has a focus on verbs. Students identify verbs in sentences, and answer questions on the active or passive voice.

Students are assessed on their knowledge of parts of speech. They work through a short text and identify the nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

Students explain what an adjective is and identify adjectives in some sentences.

This task assesses student understanding of how the form of a word affects the way it is used, i.e., whether a word is used as a noun or a verb.

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

A report about a topic of local, national, or international interest is prepared. The assessment focus is on opinions and information from the media. ARB scoring guides A and B are suitable for this task.

Students write headlines for brief newspaper items. This task assesses student ability to summarise text as a headline.

Students identify statements of fact from a range of statements.

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors, taken from the essential word lists of commonly misspelt words.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks, commas, and full stops into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students write a report which gives details about a problem, gives reasons for the problem, and suggests how it might be fixed.

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

Students prepare a persuasive speech on an issue they have strong opinions about. Features of persuasive speech are outlined. ARB scoring guides A, B, and C are suitable for this task.

Students prepare and give a speech suitable for presenting a certificate to a junior student. Points to be covered by students and a scoring guide for teachers are included.

Students prepare and present a speech of introduction for an important person visiting the class. What the speech should cover and a scoring guide for teachers are included.

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.

This resource assesses student knowledge of six language terms used in debating. Students match the language terms with their definitions.

This assessment has students match seven common debating terms with meanings and examples.

Students present and deliver a short talk on a news item that interests them. Oral Language Assessment Guide C is suitable for this task.

Students read some examples of metaphors that have been extended then write their own. They also reflect on why writers use metaphors.

For this NEMP task students write a thank you letter to the Playground Trust. The letter is assessed on letter conventions, content, and language.