English – Wednesday 17th June




Can you use the word conscientious in your own sentence?



Features of a letter- read the letter below and find the features of a letter and write them in the grid below.
Use this website to help you
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/identifying-the-features-of-a-text/activities/2
From the letter above, find examples of the features and write the example in the table below.

Features of a letter
Has the text got it in? Can you write an example?
Recipient (who gets/receives the letter)

Starts with a greeting

Expanded noun phrases E.G. cold, hard metal (cold and hard describes the noun-metal)

Contraction apostrophe E.G. wasn’t

Different types of punctuation


Conjunctions (and, but, so, until, because) Write sentences that contain these.

Feelings and emotions

Fronted adverbials


A sentence that uses a subordinate clause

Interesting vocabulary

Sign off (how you end the letter)


Challenge – can you find a rhetorical question that has been used? (a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.)

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