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Year 7 · English

Purpose And Audience Awareness

Year 7 learners practise writing for a specific audience and purpose.

The activities include Explore the Use of Formal Language in a Piece of Writing: The Cat, Identify Suitable Vocabulary and Devices For a Specific Audience, Practise Writing a Logical Argument: School Trips, and related practice. The checked support below includes practice, video, worksheet, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Explore the Use of Formal Language in a Piece of Writing: The Cat
  • Identify Suitable Vocabulary and Devices For a Specific Audience
  • Practise Writing a Logical Argument: School Trips
  • Practise Writing For Specific Audiences
  • Recognise Texts About Past Experiences
  • Revise the Features of Formal Official Language
  • Write For A Specific Audience
  • Write For An Audience

Checked learning resources

  • Giving Your Opinion Word Mat

    Twinkl · Practice · Account may be required

    This KS3/GCSE writing aid provides sentence starters for expressing an opinion, developing an argument, acknowledging a counterargument and forming a conclusion.

  • What Is Formal Language?

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Year 7 transition video distinguishing formal from informal language through vocabulary, contractions, tone and audience.

  • Recognising Purpose and Audience

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Year 7 transition video identifying audience and purpose, then linking vocabulary, tone and language devices to the intended reader. It explicitly supports writing purpose and audience and age-appropriate vocabulary choi

  • Formal and Informal Speech Differentiated Activity Sheets

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Differentiated practice selecting and rewriting formal and informal language for different situations and audiences.

  • Non-fiction writing

    BBC Bitesize · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 7 English resource matched to writing for a specific audience and purpose.

  • Oak lesson video: Victorian Childhood Preparing An Argument

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 7 KS3 English video lesson used as video. I can create a detailed plan for my argument about support for Victorian working class children. Topic sentences should outline the specific argument that will be covered in

  • Oak lesson video: Use Of Flashback In Skin Of The Sea

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 7 KS3 English video lesson used as video. I can include a flashback in a piece of creative writing inspired by Natasha Bowen's 'Skin of the Sea'. A flashback is a transition in a story to an earlier time in the life

  • Oak worksheet: Using The Active And Passive Voice

    Oak National Academy · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

    Practice transforming personal eyewitness wording into concise, impersonal report language through deliberate passive-voice choices. Year 7 KS3 English resource used as practice. I can convert sentences between the activ