Figurative & Academic Language Mastery: Vocabulary Review Worksheet for Class 6 

This Grade 6 worksheet focuses on *Mixed Figurative and Academic Vocabulary*, helping students understand both creative expressions and formal academic terms. 

Through engaging exercises like true/false identification, sorting activities, fill in the blanks, multiple-choice questions, and sentence rewriting, learners practice distinguishing between figurative language (like idioms and similes) and academic vocabulary (like cause, effect, and evidence). 

This worksheet helps students build clarity in both expressive and formal language, improving their ability to understand and use vocabulary in different contexts. 

Why Figurative & Academic Vocabulary Matter in Grammar? 
This topic is important for Grade 6 learners because: 
1. Figurative language improves creative expression and understanding. 
2. Academic vocabulary strengthens logical thinking and clarity. 
3. Students learn to identify context and use words correctly. 
4. It supports both writing skills and comprehension. 
 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

This worksheet includes five structured activities: 

🧠 Exercise 1 – True or False 
Students identify whether the vocabulary is used correctly. 

✏️ Exercise 2 – Sort the Word Pairs 
Students classify pairs into figurative and academic terms. 

📋 Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks 
Students choose the correct word from pairs. 

📝 Exercise 4 – Multiple Choice Questions 
Students select the correct option based on sentence meaning. 

🔄 Exercise 5 – Sentence Rewriting 
Students correct incorrect usage of vocabulary. 
 

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators) 

Exercise No. 1 
1. T 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. F 7. T 8. T 9. F 10. F 

Exercise No. 2 
Figurative: break/ice, time/flies, heart/stone, as/like 
Academic: reason/result, facts/proof, cause/effect, law/rule 

Exercise No. 3 
1. butterflies 
2. evidence 
3. cause 
4. evidence 
5. as 
6. nervous 
7. effect 
8. proof 
9. as 
10. evidence 

Exercise No. 4 
1. b 
2. c 
3. b 
4. c 
5. b 
6. b 
7. c 
8. c 
9. b 
10. d 

Exercise No. 5 
1. Riya had butterflies in her stomach 
2. The cause explains why it happened 
3. Ravi used evidence to prove answer 
4. Meera gave evidence to support idea 
5. The phrase like shows comparison 
6. Asha felt nervous before test 
7. Raj gave evidence in his notebook 
8. The simile used as for compare 
9. The effect is result of action 
10. Meera showed evidence in class 

Help your child strengthen both creative expression and academic clarity with this mixed vocabulary worksheet. 
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