KS3 English 50 page Christmas Cat Magazine themed Worksheets

50 page pdf document (including cover and contents pages) with 33 exercises in which the student has to imagine he/she is a journalist writing Xmas edition articles for a cat magazine.

Tasks include:

carrying out research on a variety of nature and literature related topics so as to answer a series of questions;
editing/writing cat stories;
providing advice to ‘readers’ about animal care, judging a cat show;
deciding on the most appropriate products for different ‘readers’ based on individual requirements;
designing a collar to a specification chosen by the student;
choosing correct pronouns, prepositions and antecedents;
completing a crossword;
designing a fashion layout and justifying the choices for the layout;
providing opinions on ideas related to fashion/appearance/non-verbal communication;
identifying/researching denotations/connotations;
researching the meaning behind a specific usage of the phonetic alphabet;
deciding upon the possible meanings of symbols, euphemisms and dysphemisms;
using comparative adjectives with the phrase “not to say”;
correcting cat-themed homophones;
using spelling rules;
correcting various sentence structure errors relating to faulty predication, run-on sentences and sentence fragments;
answering questions based on a cat-themed short story;
writing summaries/dialogues based on a series of animated video shorts;
creating comic strips and many more…

One of the key learning ideas in the booklet relates to how people and animals may communicate non-verbally/by using body language.