Verbs

Here I present four activities to work on topics related with verbs:

VERBS

First of all, we introduce the verbs activity to develop the children’s knowledge of verbs.

We are going to name verbs like “doing” word. Look at a picture showing lots of things happening. Make a list of verbs for the actions in the picture with the children (in infinitive).

Help children name the verbs for the bees’ actions in the first pictures. The children complete the infinitives by writing the verb roots. Then, read the next three verbs with the class and draw a bee making these actions. Finally, the children think of two verbs themselves, complete the infinitives and draw a bee doing each of these actions.

CONJUGATING VERBS 

Conjugating verbs activity has the same aim: develop the children’s knowledge of verbs.

Revise pronouns and their action with children. Now choose a verb and tell the class that they are going to join it to the pronouns. This is conjugating a verb.

The children choose a verb and write it on the line provided at the top. Then, they write their verb besides each pronoun. Remind children that for “he”, “she” and “it”, an “s” must be added to the verb root. The children draw a picture to show the person or people doing the action for their verb.

PAST TENSE

Past tense activity tries to develop the children’s knowledge of the past tense.

Explain that verbs often change to show when the action takes place. So far the verbs taught have all been in the present tense, which means they describe actions taking place now. If, however, the verb describes an action which has already taken place, it should be in the past tense.

In the activity, children write the verbs in the past tense. Then they decide if the sentences are in the present or past tenses. 

DOUBLING RULE

Doubling rule develops the children’s ability to recognise the short vowels in words, so that they learn when to apply the doubling rule before adding “-ed”.

Tell the children that endings which are added to words are called suffixes. If a word has a short vowel sound, it is important to be careful when adding a suffix that starts with a vowel, such as “-ed”. This is because the “e” behaves like a magic “e”, and changes the vowel sound in the word.

In this activity children have to write the verb roots in the past tense, remembering to apply the doubling rule. 

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