Topic: Lessons

Sometimes we make confident statements, while at other times we want to express some uncertainty. In this resource we will explore the expression of certainty and uncertainty. This is one of the areas of meaning we call modality.

In this activity we will look at suffixes that can change adjectives and verbs into nouns.

In this resource we will practise using tense consistently and think about the effect of using past tense versus present tense in a story.

Goals

• Identify past tense and present tense forms.
• Practise changing tense and using tense consistently.
• Consider the effect of changing tense in a story.

Lesson Plan

Background

This lesson asks students to apply their understanding of tense, aspect, and time to structure passages of writing.

Goals

• Arrange sentences in order based on tense and aspect in the sentences.
• Practise ordering and re-ordering sentences in various ways using tense and aspect to convey the appropriate order of events.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will arrange a passage of writing and explore expressions of time in English.

What did you and your family do on the holidays? In this activity you will experiment with our fun sentence generator which reports on some unusual holiday happenings!

Try this noun phrase generator in class. Your students will enjoy creating weird and funny noun phrases using the interactive whiteboard.

Goals

• Create some new noun phrases.
• Examine what can and can't happen in noun phrases.
• Evaluate example noun phrases, looking at why they do or don't work.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will be generating noun phrases. 

In this lesson, students explore word morphology. Morphology is an area of language study concerned with how words are formed. While syntax is about the larger structures formed when words are put together, morphology is about the structure within words.

In this resource we’ll look at how verb phrases can be built up by putting auxiliary verbs and main verbs together.

Newspaper headlines often compress sequences of actions into very compact structures. Sometimes the meaning becomes ambiguous as a result.