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Topic: Adverb

Adverbs may modify adjectives (very funny), verbs (She laughed nervously), other adverbs (extremely quickly) or whole sentences (Luckily, she left early).

Homonyms

Plan

Please note: there are two pages of activities for this lesson.

Activity 1

Show the learners the two example words. Ask them to discuss with a partner how many different meanings they can think of. In the next two slides, show possible solutions. 

Next, explain that words with multiple unrelated meanings are called homonyms. Ask learners to identify the word class of the two example words.  

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Homonyms 2

Lesson

Activity 3

This lesson continues our look at homonyms. 

Take for example the word fast

How many different meanings and word classes can you think of?

Look at these two sentences: 

  1. Katie works very fast
  2. Katie is a fast worker.

They have very similar meanings, but in one sentence fast is an adverb and in the other an adjective.

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Homonyms 1

Lesson

Objective

To identify the different meanings of homonyms of various word classes. 

Activity 1

Look at these two words. How many meanings can you think of for each? 

  • bank 
  • pupil

  • bank 
    1. an organization or a building that handles money and provides financial services. 
    2. the land on the side of a river or a lake

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    Using Adverbials in Non-Fiction Texts

    Activities: Part 2

    In part 1, you looked at Adverbials and how they are formed. 

    In this lesson, you will look at three texts and see how Adverbials help to organise information. 

    Warmer

    Soon, you will read three non-fiction texts. Before you do, discuss these quesitons: 

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    Using Adverbials in Non-Fiction Texts

    Lesson Plan

    Goals:

    • Explain what an Adverbial is and how they are formed 
    • Distinguish between fronted and non-fronted Adverbials 
    • Explore how Adverbials are used to order information. 

    The lesson activities are divided into part 1 and 2. 

    Part 1

    Warmer

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    Using Adverbials in Non-Fiction Texts

    Activities: Part 1

    Warmer

    1. What is an Adverbial? 
    2. What kind of grammatical units (structures) can function as Adverbial?
    3. What is a 'fronted Adverbial'? 
    4. Why do writers use Adverbials? Why do they move them around in sentences? 

    An adverbial:

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    Genre of Argument and Discussion 1

    Lesson Plan

    Goals:

    • Discuss the tone and purpose of argument and disucssion in essays
    • Identify the discouse structures and organisation features
    • Analyse how grammar contributes to organisation

    Lesson Plan

    Before this lesson, you may want to complete the lesson An Introduction to Genre, so that learners are familiar with the key terms discourse structure and register

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    Genre of Argument and Discussion 1

    Activities

    Warm-up

    What kind of text is an argument or discussion?

    What is its purpose?

    What makes it different from other texts?

    Activity 1

    Read the essay on the hand out.

    1. What is the topic of the essay? What facts do you learn?

    2. What is the author's perspective? How can you tell?

    3. How is this text written? What is the tone? Why is it written in this way?

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    04: Adverbs

    Year 2 Guided Grammar Lessons #4

    This is Lesson #4 of a unit of 10.

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    Teacher Slide

    Objective: grammar

    To understand what adverbs are, how they are formed and their grammatical characteristics.

    Objective: writing

    To explore what role adverbs play in writing, and to apply this to the pupils’ own writing.

    Terminology for pupils:

    adverbs, verbs

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    Y2 GPaS Test: Identify the adverbs

    Find the adverbs in a range of examples

    Identify the adverbs in each of the following examples (there may be more than one). Click on a word to choose it.

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