Creating meaning resources

Students prepare and give a 'Thank you' speech. Points to be covered by students and a scoring guide for teachers are included.

Students prepare and give a farewell speech. Points to be covered by students and a scoring guide for teachers are included.

The assessment context is a prepared speech of introduction. The time limit is 1 minute and a content checklist is provided. Assessment guides B and C are suitable for this task.

Students deliver an impromptu speech on a picture, word, or object provided by the teacher. Speaking strategies are suggested in the resource. Oral Language Assessment Guide B is suitable for this task.

The assessment focus is on an informative speech to a small group about a famous historical person. Student directions, a checklist, and scoring guides are included.

Students prepare a short farewell speech. This task has an assessment focus on contributing and on considering others. Oral Language Assessment Guide B is suitable for this task.

Students identify qualities of structure, voice, body language, and rapport for a speech.

Students read statements from a debate then provide nine short written answers to demonstrate their understanding of common debating techniques.

The language of debating is assessed as students provide explanations of emotional argument, limited example, empathy, empty argument, rebuttal, refutation, and irrelevant conclusion.

For this NEMP task students look at an humorous image of Santa and complete a thought bubble.

This punctuation resource is on the use of brackets. Students explain when brackets are used, then insert them into four sentences.

This task assesses students' understanding of the use of capital letters in titles by asking them to put capital letters in 11 TV programme titles.

This task assesses the initial knowledge and understanding associated with correct use of speech marks for direct speech, i.e., identifying the words spoken. Students are required to identify the words spoken in four sentences by recording them in speech bubbles.

Students fill in speech bubbles from direct speech in sentences. The purpose of this activity is to assess students' ability to identify the words actually spoken.

A writing task, where students argue a case for or against single sex education, discussing and defending their point of view.

For this NEMP task students write a letter to a bookshop requesting information about a book.

Students express interest in a job by writing a letter and a message to leave on an answer phone.

Students write arguments for and against school rules.

Students identify different speech techniques in a range of extracts of motivational talking from a coach.

This assessment task has students writing a short conversation between friends, using speech marks that have been modelled in the task.

The focus of this resource is the use of simple conjunctions. Students decide which conjunction to use to combine two ideas to make one sentence.

The focus of this resource is selecting the appropriate punctuation to end sentences. The resource ends with a shared activity where students write some sentences about themselves, share them with a partner, and give each other feedback on their punctuation.

In this resource students select the correct word from a range of homophones from the essential word lists.

Students design an advertisement to sell a bike.

For this NEMP task students write a letter to a company requesting some information.