Creating meaning resources

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.

Students use the ideas from a brainstorm to write six sentences about caring for pets.

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.

Students read a letter written to the Board of Trustees, and make it more formal by writing the contractions as full words.

Students create simple and compound sentences to go with given photos. The focus is on combining sentences, using simple conjunctions. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

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.

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.

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

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.