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Year 7 · English

Extend And Apply Grammatical Knowledge

Year 7 learners practise ks3 grammar punctuation and spelling rules.

The activities include Practise Spelling Tricky Homophones, Use Brackets for Parenthesis, Add Prefixes to Make New Words, and related practice. The checked support below includes teach, practice, video, teaching. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Practise Spelling Tricky Homophones
  • Use Brackets for Parenthesis
  • Add Prefixes to Make New Words
  • Identify Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions
  • Practise Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
  • Practise Spelling Homophones
  • Practise Using Speech Marks Correctly
  • Recognise Relative Clauses
  • Recognise Words Borrowed from Other Languages
  • Revise Classification of Adjectives
  • Revise Colons and Semicolons in Lists and Quotations
  • Revise Conditional Sentences
  • Revise Different Types of Adverbs
  • Revise Grammar Skills
  • Revise Homophones
  • Revise Speech Marks and the Ellipsis
  • Revise the Active and Passive Voice
  • Revise the Different Types of Nouns
  • Revise the Different Types of Pronouns
  • Revise the Structure of Complex Sentences
  • Revise the Use of Colons and Semicolons
  • Revise the Use of Colons and Semicolons to Join Sentences
  • Revise the Use of Prepositions in Sentences
  • Revise the Use of Semicolons for Joining Clauses and Sentences
  • Revise Word Classes
  • Understand How to Use Commas Correctly
  • Understand the Difference Between Direct and Indirect Speech
  • Understand the Difference Between Metaphors and Similes
  • Use Exciting Vocabulary
  • Use Prefixes to Create Antonyms
  • Use the Prefix Tele- and the Suffix -Phone to Form New Words

Checked learning resources

  • The Words of English: Borrowed Words

    BBC Skillswise · Teach · Opens on the provider website

    This BBC factsheet explains how English has borrowed words from other languages, including French after the Norman Conquest, and how borrowing affects modern English words and pronunciation.

  • Active or Passive Voice? Worksheet

    Twinkl · Practice · Account may be required

    This KS3 worksheet explains active and passive voice with examples and asks students to recognise and change sentence voice, with answers included.

  • KS3 Word Class Display Pack

    Twinkl · Teach · Account may be required

    This KS3/KS4 reference defines nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions and gives a contextual example of each word class.

  • Homophones and Near-Homophones Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Year 7 spelling-revision video distinguishing homophones and near-homophones by meaning and sentence context.

  • Prefixes re-, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto- and co-

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Year 7 spelling-revision video explaining how common prefixes change root-word meaning and form new words.

  • What Is a Subordinating Conjunction?

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Year 7 grammar-revision video distinguishing subordinating conjunctions from coordinating conjunctions in multi-clause sentences.

  • Punctuating Speech KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Year 7 revision video modelling direct-speech punctuation, speech marks, reporting clauses, commas and closing punctuation.

  • What Is a Relative Clause?

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Year 7 grammar-revision video identifying relative clauses and the relative pronouns that introduce them.