Topic: Primary

Relevant for Primary School teachers and students.

Adjective identification: Activity 2

Somehow, it didn't seem wise.

Is wise an adjective?

Adjective identification: Activity 1

Which words do you think are adjectives?

Adjective identification

In this activity, students work through the criteria for identifying adjectives.

Verb identification

In this activity, students work through the criteria for identifying verbs.

Goals

Practise identifying verbs.
Recognise linguistic criteria for identifying verbs.
Remember the list of verb criteria for use and application later on.

Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students move beyond what is called the notional or semantic way of identifying verbs as 'doing words' to explore grammatical ways of identifying verbs. (You can listen to Bas Aarts discuss this.)

Verb identification: Activity 2

He played cricket with Charlie.

Is played a verb?

Is it a doing word?
Can it show tense? Can you say Yesterday, I ____ed, for example?
Does it add -s to agree with a Subject like he or she, as in He ___s.
Can it take an -ing ending?

He played cricket with Charlie.

Is cricket a verb?

Verb identification: Activity 1

Which words do you think are verbs?

Verb images: Activity

The girls are rehearsing a song.

Several boys were playing football.

Sally has studied French for three years.

John has been studying French for one hour.

Noun identification

In this activity, students work through the criteria for identifying nouns.

Noun identification: Activity 2

I'll see you on Thursday.

Is Thursday a noun?

Does it represent a person, place, thing or idea?
Can it be singular or plural? Can you say one ___ and two ___s?
Can it be possessive? Can you add 's or ' at the end?
Can it follow the or a?
Can it be replaced with a pronoun like it, he, she, or they?

Noun identification: Activity 1

Which words do you think are nouns?

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