Year 6 Summer English Activity
Booklet Answers
Summer Party Invitation
Dear friend,
You are cordially invited to a social gathering to celebrate my birthday on Sunday 10th at
12pm. Delicious cuisine will be served in the large marquee situated on our grounds. We will
participate in several outdoor leisure activities including croquet.
If you were able to attend, I would be thrilled.
Please RSVP.
I hope to see you soon, your friend.
RSVP
I would be delighted to attend your birthday gathering.
Unfortunately I will not be available to attend.
Summer Synonym Scramble
sprinted - raced
tranquil - peaceful
chilly - frozen
despondent - dejected
immense - gargantuan
screeched - squealed
scorching - searing
ecstatic - elated
deafening - ear-piercing
ambled - strolled
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Year 6 Summer English Activity Booklet Answers
Summer Synonym Scramble
Example sentences:
I was so ecstatic to be on holiday that I sprinted down to the immense pool and squealed
with delight when I saw the water slides.
We ambled along the tranquil beach until my little sister let out an ear-piercing scream as a
chilly wave washed over her feet.
The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling
1. Which season is this poem set in? Circle one.
spring summer autumn winter
2. Why are you no longer able to see the road through the woods?
They shut the road seventy years ago and now all of the trees and plants have grown
where it used to be.
3. ‘Steadily cantering through’
Tick the word closest in meaning to ‘steadily’.
annually gradually quickly noisily
4. ‘You will hear the beat of a horses feet
And the swish of a skirt in the dew……….
………But there is no road through the woods.’
What do you think that the poet is describing in the last part of the second verse?
You are still able to hear the sounds of the ghosts that used to use the road years ago
despite the fact that there is no longer a road.
Ice-cream Match-Up!
accident-prone
sugar-free
open-mouthed
man-eating
wide-eyed
good-looking
quick-thinking
bad-tempered
fair-haired
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Ice-cream Match-Up
Example sentences:
I stared open-mouthed as the man-eating shark came closer to our boat.
The sugar-free lolly tasted really good.
My sister is so fair-haired that the sun seems to make her hair go white.
Summer Sentence Challenge
Passive sentences
1. Example sentences: Example sentence: The sandy beach was visited by the Ball family
last week.
2. The street was visited by the ice cream van.
3. The aeroplane was boarded by a large group of excited holiday makers.
4. The sun cream was applied by the young girl.
5. The cool boat trip was really appreciated by Samir on the sweltering hot day.
Active sentences
1. Example sentence: We visited the most amazing adventure playground this summer.
2. The thermometer measured a whopping 25 degrees.
3. Monika enjoyed flying her kite at the top of a hill.
4. It was my first time riding a donkey on the beach and I loved it!
5. Yesterday, we had the biggest water fight ever.
Fairtrade Challenge
1. What does ‘Fairtrade’ mean?
Fairtrade means that farmers are guaranteed a fair price for their crops.
2. Circle the conditions that cocoa needs to grow.
warm and wet warm and dry cold and wet cold and dry
3. Is chocolate the favourite flavour of ice-cream in the world? Yes / No
Explain how you know.
Chocolate ice-cream is the second favourite flavour of ice-cream (9%),
whereas 29% of people prefer vanilla, making it the favourite flavour.
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4. What punctuation is used in the chocolate brownies recipe? How does this help the reader?
Bullet points are used to make the information more clear for the reader, so in
this case the reader knows the ingredients they need to make the brownies.
Think and Write: Kermit’s travels
1. Include a passive sentence.
The globe was studied by Kermit who was trying to decide where to go on holiday.
2. Use a colon to introduce a list.
He had narrowed his choices down to: Frog City in Florida, Toad Hole in Cheshire, Frog
Combe in Somerset or Gumly Gumly in Australia.
3. Use brackets for parenthesis.
Kermit chose Gumly Gumly (which means ‘Place of Many Frogs’ in Australian
Aboriginal language) because he hoped to find a friend there.
4. Include a relative clause.
After a long flight, Kermit arrived and met some of the locals, who were a lot slimier
and uglier than he had expected!
5. Include a plural possessive apostrophe.
All of the frogs’ homes were on huge lily pads.
Punctuation Mix-Up
1. nphyhe hyphen
11 4
2. silpelsi ellipsis
7 8
3. colno colon
6
4. liltspoutebn bullet points
2
5. coolimnes semi-colon
3
6. hads dash
9 10 1 5
S U M M E R H O L I D A Y
1 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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Summer Spelling Challenge
1. My confidence increased the more I went on the huge waterslide.
2. The sunset was spectacular last night.
3. When we go to Spain, the temperature is due to be in the thirties!
4. There was a huge storm last night; the lightning was amazing.
5. I am especially excited about going snorkelling on holiday.
6. On holiday, I entered the talent competition and won!
7. This summer we have had a lot of torrential rain storms.
8. I must remember to freeze some ice lollies ready for the hot day tomorrow.
9. I am delighted to be visiting the Eiffel Tower this summer.
10. We have had lots of sweltering days in Portugal.
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