Here is a list of English skills students learn in class VI! These skills are organised into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. Nexustutor will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
A.1 Determine the main idea of a passage
B.1 Match the quotations with their themes
B.2 Determine the themes of short stories
C.1 Which sentence is more formal?
C.2 Compare passages for tone
C.3 Identify author’s purpose
D.1 Compare and contrast in informational texts
D.2 Match causes and effects in informational texts
D.3 Match problems with their solutions
D.4 Identify text structures
E.1 Interpret figures of speech
E.2 Classify figures of speech
E.3 Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
F.1 Analyse short stories
G.1 Read and understand informational passages
G.2 Trace an argument
H.1 Compare two texts with different genres
I.1 Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
J.1 Order topics from broadest to narrowest
J.2 Organise information by main idea
J.3 Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
K.1 Distinguish facts from opinions
K.2 Choose evidence to support a claim
K.3 Identify supporting details in informational texts
K.4 Identify supporting details in literary texts
K.5 Identify counterclaims
L.1 Use personification
M.1 Use the correct frequently confused word
M.2 Correct errors with frequently confused words
M.3 Suggest appropriate revisions
N.1 Identify and correct plagiarism
O.1 Words with pre-
O.2 Words with re-
O.3 Words with sub-
O.4 Words with mis-
O.5 Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
O.6 Words with -ful
O.7 Words with -less
O.8 Words with -able and -ible
P.1 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
P.2 Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
P.3 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
P.4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
P.5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Q.1 Choose the synonym
Q.2 Find synonyms in context
Q.3 Choose the antonym
Q.4 Find antonyms in context
R.1 Use the correct homophone
R.2 Which definition matches the sentence?
R.3 Which sentence matches the definition?
S.1 Describe the difference between related words
S.2 Positive and negative connotation
T.1 Analogies
T.2 Analogies: challenge
U.1 Find words using context
U.2 Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
U.3 Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
U.4 Use context to identify the meaning of a word
U.5 Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
V.1 Alphabetical order
V.2 Use guide words
V.3 Use dictionary entries
V.4 Use dictionary definitions
V.5 Use thesaurus entries
W.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
W.2 Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
W.3 Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence
W.4 Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
W.5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
W.6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
W.7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
W.8 Identify dependent and independent clauses
W.9 Is the sentence simple, compound or complex?
X.1 Identify common and proper nouns
X.2 Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
X.3 Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
X.4 Form plurals: review
X.5 Form and use plurals: review
X.6 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
X.7 Form the singular or plural possessive
X.8 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Y.1 Identify pronouns and their antecedents
Y.2 Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
Y.3 Identify vague pronoun references
Y.4 Identify all of the possible antecedents
Y.5 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
Z.1 Choose between subject and object pronouns
Z.2 Compound subjects and objects with ‘I’ and ‘me’
Z.3 Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
Z.4 Use possessive pronouns
Z.5 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
Z.6 Use reflexive pronouns
Z.7 Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
Z.8 Identify relative pronouns
Z.9 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
Z.10 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
AA.1 Identify main verbs and helping verbs
AA.2 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
AA.3 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
AA.4 What does the modal verb show?
AA.5 Use the correct modal verb
BB.1 Use the correct subject or verb
BB.2 Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
CC.1 Irregular past tense: review
CC.2 Simple past, present and future tense: review
CC.3 Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
CC.4 Use the progressive verb tenses
CC.5 Form the progressive verb tenses
CC.6 Choose between the past tense and past participle
CC.7 Use the perfect verb tenses
CC.8 Form the perfect verb tenses
DD.1 Identify adjectives
DD.2 Order adjectives
DD.3 Identify adverbs
DD.4 Use relative adverbs
DD.5 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
DD.6 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
DD.7 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
DD.8 Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
DD.9 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
DD.10 Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
EE.1 Identify prepositions
EE.2 Identify prepositions and their objects
EE.3 Identify prepositional phrases
EE.4 Prepositions: review
FF.1 Use coordinating conjunctions
FF.2 Identify coordinating conjunctions
FF.3 Identify subordinating conjunctions
FF.4 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
FF.5 Fill in the missing correlative conjunction
GG.1 Pronoun-verb contractions
GG.2 Contractions with ‘not’
HH.1 Commas with compound and complex sentences
HH.2 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters
HH.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
HH.4 Commas with non-restrictive elements
HH.5 Use dashes
II.1 Correct capitalisation errors
II.2 Capitalising titles
JJ.1 Formatting titles
JJ.2 Formatting and capitalising titles: review