1. TAKE OFF!! Moving from Year 6 to Year 7 in English
Be ready to share your work in your English lessons.

2. TRANSITION ACTIVITIES FOR YOUR HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS AND PROGRESS
TRANSITION ACTIVITIES FOR YOUR HOLIDAYS
Task 1
Choose a book you have read and then choose 3 activities from the Reading Journal activity list
Task 2
Write a diary entry describing something really exciting you have done in your summer holidays – this can be real or imagined.
Task 3
Write a description of a beach
Task 4
Spellings – how many can you spell? How many can you learn?
Task 5
Grammar – what do you know?

3. This can be real or imagined.
A diary! – Task 2
Write a diary entry describing a really exciting day you have had in your summer holiday.
This can be real or imagined.
(see diary writing mat document to help with your organisation)

4. Diary example: Today has been the worst day of my holiday
Diary example: Today has been the worst day of my holiday! The rain has never stopped! I haven’t had one chance to wear my new shorts. I’m really hoping that tomorrow brings sunshine and a chance to go to the beach! But you never guess what…………

5. A description of a beach! Task 3
Write a descriptive piece of writing, describing a beach.
You must try and use as many ambitious words as you can.
3. This is not a story.
Challenge.
Use a metaphor.
Use a simile.
Use alliteration.
Use a range of punctuation effectively.
Use a range of sentences effectively.

6. Description – example:
The sun beat down, as hot as a flame. The sand was a silky sheet of gold. Children were whooping and shouting in the distance, hopping around like crazy insects. The sea slurped and slopped at the cliffs, wearing them away with every lick of its tongue. This was heaven!

7. Produce and present a description using holiday photos.
Well done ! Challenge…..
Produce and present a description using holiday photos.

8. How many of these words can you spell? potential essential initial
experiment
excellent
equivalent
rough
tough
enough
fought
11. taught
12. caught
13. fraught
14. referring
15. suffering
16. through
17. thorough
18. borough
19. Sufficient
20. ancient

9. Spellings – how many can you spell?
conscious
precious
suspicious
delicious
vicious
spacious
gracious
ferocious
malicious
tenacious
ambitious
cautious
infectious
nutritious
pretentious
fictitious
superstitious
fractious
vexatious
anxious

10. Homophones quick fire 5. can you choose the right homophone?
Weather/Whether
It is sunny….
Hear/Here
Are you …. Yet?
3. Which/witch
….. One of you ate my sandwich?
4. to/two/too
Let’s go .. The shop.
5. to/two/too
I like chocolate …
Weather
Here
Which To
too

11. Adventurous word classes
1. A noun is the name of a place, person or object. E.G. ________________________ ____________________________ 2. An adjective is a describing word. It describes the noun. E.G. _______________________ ___________________________ 3. A verb is a doing word. It describes an action.
4. What do you think an adverb is?
Can you give examples?
5. Write a sentence with all 4 word classes in. Highlight the words and state which word class they belong to.