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Year 6 · English · Formal and informal language · Lesson 1

Formal and informal writing

Formal and informal language: features, vocabulary choices, contractions, question tags, letter openings and closings, and rewriting between registers.

Whiteboard video lesson: Formal and informal writing

13-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

  • Identify formal and informal language
  • Choose formal vocabulary
  • Avoid contractions and slang
  • Use correct letter conventions

The method

  1. Who's the audience?
  2. Remove contractions and slang.
  3. Formal vocabulary.
  4. Polite openings and closings.

Key words: formal, informal, contraction, slang, question tag, audience.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

Formal or informal: ‘Yo! What's up?’

  1. Step 1: Slang

Answer: informal

Question 2

Formal or informal: ‘I am writing to request a refund.’

  1. Step 1: Polite

Answer: formal

Question 3

Write the formal version of ‘get’.

  1. Step 1: ob...

Answer: obtain / receive