Year 5 Syllabus extract

Below is an extract from the Year 5 Syllabus. You will need to refer to this and the Content
and Learning Standards document in the next activity.

Year 5 Grammar

1. Adjectives: a range of comparative and superlatives forms

2. Adverbs: sequencing, e.g. First, ..Next .. After that
3. Object pronouns, e.g. him; her; them
4. Conjunctions, e.g. and; or; but; so
5. Can for ability
6. Imperatives, e.g. Eat healthy food; Don’t go to bed late
7. Will and won’t for predictions
8. Also
9. Time expressions, e.g. the weekend; the summer
10. Can for permission
11. Questions words and phrases, e.g. What time; How often
12. Will for promises
13. Adverbs of frequency, e.g. sometimes; usually

Recycle and consolidate (grammar from Year 4)

1. Possessive adjectives, e.g. my dog; your friend; our house

2. much/many with countable and uncountable nouns
3. Past simple regular and irregular forms, e.g. played; watched; did; came; went
4. Be going to for future plans
5. Prepositions of place, e.g. under; in; on
6. Verb + ing, e.g. I like dancing.
7. There is and there are
8. Present continuous for ongoing actions, e.g. The students are studying.
9. Conjunction because