Source: Year 5 English assessment

Can you identify the silent letter in each word?

Write each of these verbs in the past tense.

Can you replace the proper noun ‘Debbie’ with a pronoun?

When Debbie goes to the shops, the first thing Debbie does is pick up a newspaper.

Can you match the homophones with their definitions?

Which animals make these onomatopoeic sounds?

Select the antonyms for the word ‘freezing’.

Match the nouns to create a compound word.

Rewrite the sentence, adding the missing apostrophe for contraction.

I cant believe it’s nearly the weekend!

Can you write these words in the plural form?

Add the endings -cious or -tious to complete these words.

Can you select the proper nouns?

Add the missing punctuation.

Select the adjective that best describes the word ‘mountain’.

Complete the sentence by making the singular noun a plural noun and adding an apostrophe for possession.

For example, The girls’ trainers were muddy. (Noun: girl)

Add the correct prefix un-, in- or im- to each of these words.

Can you choose the best adverb for each sentence?

silently, softly, enthusiastically

Rewrite the sentence, adding the missing colon. 

Don’t forget to buy the groceries the apples, bananas and potatoes.

Can you add the correct conjunction to complete the sentences?

if    although   and

Can you change the meaning of these sentences by adding a modal verb?

For example, The man should buy a newspaper.

Are these sentences are in the past, present or future tense?

Match the sentence to the correct tense. 

Rewrite these words, adding a hyphen in the correct place.

Write the abbreviations for these words.

Rewrite this sentence using the present perfect tense by adding ‘have’ or ‘has’.

The obedient horses jumped over the fence.

Can you put these words into the order you would find them in the dictionary?

suspect, suspicious, superstitious, sustain, super

Can you change the sentence by using a relative pronoun?

who, which, where, when, whose, that

For example,

Jane was playing cricket. She was in the park.

Jane, who was in the park, was playing cricket.

Rewrite this sentence, adding a dash in the correct place.

Pandas are my favourite animal I think they look really cuddly.

Change this sentence from active to passive.

For example, 

Noah ate a delicious cupcake. 

A delicious cupcake was eaten by Noah.

Rewrite this sentence, adding a semi-colon in the correct place.

The mist lifted above the river a kingfisher darted across the sky.

What does the fronted adverbial describe?

Can you rewrite this sentence using brackets to show parenthesis?

The school bus which was late pulled up at the bus stop.

Using a preposition, can you describe where the basketball is?

Here is part of a recipe for ‘How to make a Victoria sponge’. Please read this recipe. 

Method 

1. Heat oven to 190C and butter two 15cm sandwich tins and line with non-stick baking paper.
2. In a large bowl, beat 180g caster sugar, 180g softened butter, 4 beaten eggs, 180g self-raising flour, 1 tsp baking powder and 2 tbsp milk together. Mix together until the batter is smooth. 
3. Divide the mixture between the two tins and smooth the surface. 
4. Bake for about 20 mins until golden and the cake springs back when pressed.
5. Place the cake onto a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
6. To make the filling, beat the 90g softened butter until smooth, then gradually beat in 120g sifted icing sugar.
7. Spread the buttercream over the bottom of one of the sponges and spread 170g strawberry jam on top of the other sponge. Then lightly press the sponges together to create a ‘sandwich’.
8. Dust with a little icing sugar before serving and decorate with fresh strawberries.

Please answer the following question. 

How many beaten eggs are needed?

Here is part of a recipe for ‘How to make a Victoria sponge’. Please read this recipe. 

Method 

1. Heat oven to 190C and butter two 15cm sandwich tins and line with non-stick baking paper.
2. In a large bowl, beat 180g caster sugar, 180g softened butter, 4 beaten eggs, 180g self-raising flour, 1 tsp baking powder and 2 tbsp milk together. Mix together until the batter is smooth. 
3. Divide the mixture between the two tins and smooth the surface. 
4. Bake for about 20 mins until golden and the cake springs back when pressed.
5. Place the cake onto a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
6. To make the filling, beat the 90g softened butter until smooth, then gradually beat in 120g sifted icing sugar.
7. Spread the buttercream over the bottom of one of the sponges and spread 170g strawberry jam on top of the other sponge. Then lightly press the sponges together to create a ‘sandwich’.
8. Dust with a little icing sugar before serving and decorate with fresh strawberries.

Please answer the following question.

Can you identify the imperative verb in this sentence?

Spread the buttercream over the bottom of one of the sponges. 

Here is part of a recipe for ‘How to make a Victoria sponge’. Please read this recipe. 

Method 

1. Heat oven to 190C and butter two 15cm sandwich tins and line with non-stick baking paper.
2. In a large bowl, beat 180g caster sugar, 180g softened butter, 4 beaten eggs, 180g self-raising flour, 1 tsp baking powder and 2 tbsp milk together. Mix together until the batter is smooth. 
3. Divide the mixture between the two tins and smooth the surface. 
4. Bake for about 20 mins until golden and the cake springs back when pressed.
5. Place the cake onto a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
6. To make the filling, beat the 90g softened butter until smooth, then gradually beat in 120g sifted icing sugar.
7. Spread the buttercream over the bottom of one of the sponges and spread 170g strawberry jam on top of the other sponge. Then lightly press the sponges together to create a ‘sandwich’.
8. Dust with a little icing sugar before serving and decorate with fresh strawberries.

Please answer the following question.

What should you do with the cake once it comes out of the oven?

Here is part of a recipe for ‘How to make a Victoria sponge’. Please read this recipe. 

Method 

1. Heat oven to 190C and butter two 15cm sandwich tins and line with non-stick baking paper.
2. In a large bowl, beat 180g caster sugar, 180g softened butter, 4 beaten eggs, 180g self-raising flour, 1 tsp baking powder and 2 tbsp milk together. Mix together until the batter is smooth. 
3. Divide the mixture between the two tins and smooth the surface. 
4. Bake for about 20 mins until golden and the cake springs back when pressed.
5. Place the cake onto a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
6. To make the filling, beat the 90g softened butter until smooth, then gradually beat in 120g sifted icing sugar.
7. Spread the buttercream over the bottom of one of the sponges and spread 170g strawberry jam on top of the other sponge. Then lightly press the sponges together to create a ‘sandwich’.
8. Dust with a little icing sugar before serving and decorate with fresh strawberries.

Please answer the following question.

Instruction 6, explains you must ‘gradually beat in 120g of sifted icing sugar,’ what does the word ‘gradually’ mean?