Welcome to

Secondary
English

Year 7
Activity Booklet
English Wordsearch
This wordsearch contains 25 words related to English.
Can you find them all?

D F G H I J K L M B N O N F I C T I O N
T Y O N O M A T O P O E I A F G O S D T
P E R S O N I F I C A T I O N Q T L Y L
G H J D S A F T Y J K L M F X U C B O A
A L L I T E R A T I O N T U C O M M A N
A S T Y H J K L A S G J N M X T Z D T Y
O N O M Q S I M I L E S T L A A D X F G
N A S G Z A X C M T E R T Y X T Z D M F
A A P Q E R T U A I O V F G Y I A N O G
G H R T Y U I O G P S E M I C O L O N Q
A T O R Y U Z X E C V R V V E N R U O B
A T S L A K P J R H G S F D S A T N L Q
L K E H G T L T Y Y V E Z F I C T I O N
M N B V C X O Z P O E V I D E N C E G Q
P O I U Y T T R P I R A S E D C V B U Q
F U L L S T O P A T B Z C V B T Y H E L
A R H K L T S Y N O N Y M Z X C V B N L
A S S O N A N C E A Q T L K J H G F D A
J K L S D F T T J R A D V E R B Z K L Y
Q U E M E T A P H O R S A N T O N Y M T
• SIMILE • COMMA • PLOT • ALLITERATION • COLON
• VERB • SEMICOLON • VERSE • ONOMATOPOEIA
• ASSONANCE • MONOLOGUE • SYNONYM • PERSONIFICATION
• NARRATOR • NOUN • FULLSTOP • EVIDENCE
• PROSE • ADVERB • FICTION • ANTONYM
• QUOTATION • IMAGERY • METAPHOR • NONFICTION

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Famous Writers
Your task is to find out about six famous writers.
You might want to think about:
• What their full name was and when they were alive.
• What are they famous for/what did they write.
• Why students study them.
Writer Fact 1 Fact 2 Fact 3

Maya
Angelou

Charles
Dickens

Mary
Seacole

Mary
Shelley

Oscar
Wilde

Benjamin
Zephaniah

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Colour by Word Class
Instructions: Work out which word class each word belongs to and
then use the key to shade each section in the correct colour:

Pink Noun

Red Pronoun

Orange Verb

Yellow Adjective

Green Adverb

Blue Preposition
Purple Conjunction

White (leave blank) Interjection

sigh

scream
ss
always
thele

also
none

elegant
she
r
basketball

ignorance
neve
rapidly
drab

er
beneath

g
howev
amon
above
Wales

Abdul
itself

us

whimper

crush swirl
creep

swift

oops
y
ancient

full

dis
row

gu

deem
st
e
gosh

sor
ly

age
m agr
ultimate
courage

n
and
ard

candle

envis
kitche

cackle
we

him
tow
her

ah
oy

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Acrostic Poems
An acrostic poem is a poem which uses the first letter of each line to
spell out a word. Make an acrostic poem using your name to share
some of the things you enjoy.
• The poem can rhyme or be in free verse.
• You can use lines of different lengths.
• Be as creative as you like!

Example:
Wandering around new places
I love to explore while
Learning new things but also
Lounging around
Is kind of fun
And gaming online with
Mates. As long as there are snacks!

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Match the Literary Device to the Example
Can you match all the literary devices to the examples?

Literary Device Example

Simile Scampered

I lazed by the
babbling brook.
Metaphor
Snap, crackle, pop!

Personification His words are music to

my ears.

Onomatopoeia My passion is like a

hot volcano.

The sun was high, not

Pathetic fallacy
a cloud in sight and the
weightless freedom of the
Strong verb summer stretched
before us.

alliteration The chocolate cake was

calling my name.

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Do any examples use more than one device?
Can you write your own examples of each device?


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Mad Mad Libs
Time to put your knowledge of word class to excellent use and
create a hilarious horror story. Just fill in the gap with the correct
type of word and enjoy your creation!

The Year 7s were feeling at school. It had been

adjective adjective
almost a whole and the , once and
noun noun adjective
were now and .
adjective adjective adjective

and were walking to for

name name noun
Science class. As theyh the h ,
verb preposition adjective noun
they heard a . Both h at each
noun noun plural verb
other with It was fairly normal to hear some at
adjective noun
break-time but this wasn’t any h , it
adjective noun
sounded and like it came from the , ,
adjective adjective adjective
, , the . Without a word, the
noun preposition noun verb
two started towards the .
noun plural verb adverb noun

“But we need a " .

noun verb name

just and held a

name verb pronoun noun
to his lips.
noun

As they the door,

verb name adverb verb
forward, fingers to clasp the old knob.
pronoun

“Eeeeeeeeeee!” A high pitched wailing came from

behind the door and suddenly it flung open, revealing a
.
adjective adjective noun

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 • Use this planning table to jot down some ideas/examples of
each word class used in the Mad Libs.
• After, you can use this to help you fill in your Mad Libs.
• You might find you need to modify some of your ideas as you
write your story, either for clarity or further confusion!
• Consider your word choices. What kind of words will work
best in a hilarious horror story?

Word Class Idea/Example

13 adjectives

16 nouns

2 Names
(proper nouns)

7 verbs

2 prepositions

1 pronoun

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Library Scavenger Hunt
Have you ever wondered how a librarian knows where all the
books belong? Or how you can find a specific book among the
hundreds on the shelves? Libraries use a system called Dewey
Decimal which organises books according to their category. In 1872
Melvil Dewey invented the Dewey Decimal Classification when he
was only 21! Now, more than 200,000 libraries in 135 countries use
the system for organising books, although many libraries now only
use this system for non-fiction, with fiction books simply being
organised alphabetically.

The system gives each book a shelf mark number which can usually
be found on the spine of the book. The books are arranged in
numerical order.
000 Computer science, information and general work
100 Philosophy and psychology
200 Religion
300 Social sciences
400 Language
500 Science
600 Technology
700 Art and recreation
800 Literature
900 History and geography

After the three digits which represent the subject area there is a decimal
point. The numbers after the decimal point relate to the sub-section of the
subject area. After the numbers there can be letters and numbers which
refer to the author of the book. If a library has many books by the same
author, they will sometimes use the first letter of the title of the book.

Both of these books are by Stephen Hawking, so the librarian has

added an identifying letter from the title:
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking 523.1.HAWb
The Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking 523.1.HAWt

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Emoji Book Titles
• Can you work out the title of the book using the emojis?
• Once you have found the title, find it in the library and write down
its library reference number - you'll find this on the book's spine.

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Emoji Book Titles
• Can you work out the title of the book using the emojis?
• Once you have found the title, find it in the library and write
down its library reference number.

Question Book Title Library Reference Number

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Wacky Words Brainteasers
Can you work out the phrase hidden in these pictures?

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Partner Up!
Here are some ideas for partner games.

Only Questions!
Aim: to keep answering questions with questions for as long as
possible, but the questions must be relevant to the previous
question. Try to keep your questions open by using starter words
like: what, where, when, who, why, rather than questions that are
closed and only encourage a yes/no answer.

e.g.
Partner 1: What’s your favourite TV show?
Partner 2: Why do you think I like watching TV?
Partner 1: What else would you do in your spare time?
Partner 2: Wouldn’t you rather read a book?
Partner 1: Wouldn’t you rather look at a screen?
Partner 2: Have you heard what screen time does to your brain?
Partner 1: How did you learn what screen time does to your brain?
Partner 2: I read it on the internet.

Partner two loses!

They responded with a statement not a question.

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The Neverending Sentence
Aim: to keep a sentence going for as long as possible by using
conjunctions. Partner one begins the story and partner two only
continues it by adding a conjunction. Then partner one must try
and keep their story/sentence going in a way that makes sense.
Here are some conjunctions to get you started…

accordingly, actually, after, after a short time, afterwards, also,

and, another, at last, because, before, besides, briefly, but,
consequently, conversely, equally, finally, first, for example,
furthermore, gradually, hence, however, in addition, in contrast,
in fact, in spite of, meanwhile, nevertheless, next, nonetheless,
on the contrary, or, presently, similarly, since, so that,
subsequently, such as , then, thereafter, therefore, to illustrate,
ultimately, whatever, whoever, whereas, whomever, when,
while, with this in mind, yet

e.g.
Partner 1: Once upon a time there was an alien
Partner 2: but
Partner 1: no one knew she was an alien
Partner 2: because
Partner 1: she had an incredible disguise
Partner 2: furthermore
Partner 1: she was an excellent actress
Partner 2: and
Partner 1: lived in Hollywood

Try to keep the story going for as long as possible! You could time
yourselves to see how long you can go for or try to use a different
conjunction each time. Once the story finishes or a conjunction is
repeated you swap roles.

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 Mix It Up
This game is another storytelling game which plays on the idea
of genre. A genre is a type of book or film e.g. horror, comedy,
romantic, dramatic, action, adventure, sci-fi, fantasy etc.

The first thing you need to do is think of as many genres as

possible with your partner. Once you have jotted those down add
typical things associated with that genre.
Example: Sci–fi: aliens; space; rockets; futuristic; computers;
robots etc. Do this for all the different genres you can think of.
You can play the game using either a story that you already know
or making a new one up entirely. The first partner starts off the
story and at any point the second partner can call out, “remix to
another genre” and the first partner needs to change the genre of
the story they are already telling.
e.g.
Partner 1: In a forest, a lost princess was wandering around
looking for…
Partner 2: Remix to sci-fi!
Partner 1: her rocket ship, she needed to find it so she could…
Partner 2: Remix to comedy!
Partner 1: escape the fart gas that was coming from her sidekick…
Partner 2: Remix to action!
Keep playing for as long as the story goes on for and then
switch roles.

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Two Truths and a Lie
Aim: To trick your partner into believing something that isn’t true
while learning new information about each other.

Think of two things about yourself that are true and one that isn’t.
Tell them to your partner and your partner says which one they
think is the lie. Award a point if they are correct and then swap!

e.g.
Partner 1: I used to live in Australia, I have 5 brothers and 4 sisters
and I can speak four different languages.
Partner 2: You do not have 5 brothers and 4 sisters.
Partner 1: Wrong! I am one of ten siblings.
Partner 2: Wow! My turn. I have been on TV, have 7 pets and my
favourite food is pickle.
Partner 1: You don’t have 7 pets.
Partner 2: Correct! 1 point to you.

Once the game has finished.

Try and recap all the of new and
interesting things you havelearnt
about your partner.

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English Lessons Terminology
Solve the clues to find different terminology used in English lessons.

ACROSS DOWN
1. Storyteller.
6. Used to show possession
2. A Describing word.
or omission.
3. A word that sounds like
7. Helpful for finding synonyms.
its meaning.
9. Used to describe an action.
4. Way of classifying books.
10. A person, place or thing.
5. Prolific playwright.
11. An action word.
6. Word with an
12. Compare one thing to
opposite meaning.
another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
8. Word with a similar
13. At the end of a query.
meaning.

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