Help your students build confident, respectful and purposeful communication with our Formal & Informal Language Worksheets PACKAGE! This comprehensive bundle is designed to support students in understanding how to adapt their tone and language choices to suit different audiences, settings and relationships. With a focus on real-world communication and audience awareness, this resource collection guides students in recognising and applying formal and informal language appropriately across a range of contexts.

Across the three included resources, students will explore how tone shifts depending on who they are speaking to, identify key language features in different forms of communication, and practise rewriting sentences to match specific scenarios. From analysing familiar conversations to creating tailored written responses, these activities help build the foundation for strong oral language, writing fluency and social understanding.

Formal & Informal Language Worksheets PACKAGE supports outcomes across English, Health and Humanities by reinforcing language awareness, relationship-building and respectful expression. With ready-to-use worksheets, reflection questions and extension tasks included, the bundle is perfect for use in writing units, oral language lessons, small group instruction or whole-class activities.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Identify and differentiate between formal and informal language
• ✅ Adjust tone and vocabulary depending on the audience, purpose and setting
• ✅ Recognise how familiarity, age and expertise influence communication choices
• ✅ Practise rewriting and tailoring messages to suit different audiences
• ✅ Develop respectful and thoughtful communication in speaking and writing

What’s Included:

• Adapting Language for Different Audiences Worksheets
• Formal or Informal Language Worksheets
• Identifying Influences on Language Worksheets

Materials Needed:

• Printed worksheets
• Pencils, highlighters or coloured markers
• Optional: speech bubble templates or sentence strips for class modelling

How to Use:

1. Introduce the topic with a class discussion or role play comparing formal and informal speech.
2. Choose one or more worksheets based on your focus - audience, tone, purpose or communication setting.
3. Students complete the tasks by identifying, adjusting and reflecting on language choices.
4. Use the included reflection questions to prompt group discussion or journal writing.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use as a writing warm-up or part of an oral language unit
• 💡 Assign tasks during health or respectful relationships lessons
• 💡 Pair students for role play to practise adjusting tone in conversations
• 💡 Extend into letter writing, persuasive tasks or narrative point-of-view writing
• 💡 Display rewritten examples as part of a tone and audience anchor wall

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Model rewriting aloud using think-aloud strategies to scaffold sentence-level decisions
• 💛 Use student examples during discussion to reinforce correct tone and respectful phrasing
• 💛 Provide vocabulary scaffolds for tone-related words (e.g. polite, casual, assertive)
• 💛 Differentiate by limiting the number of responses or simplifying vocabulary as needed

Formal & Informal Language Worksheets PACKAGE is the perfect resource bundle for building language awareness, social understanding and confident, respectful communication - ideal for use across multiple subjects and learning areas.