Topic: Y6

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

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 activity, students work with an interactive smart board display to build compound words.

The Activity pages for this starter can be found in the menu entitled 'This Unit' in the upper right corner of this page. Each Activity page contains slides that can be displayed using a projector or smart board. 

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

In this exercise, students make changes to pronouns in texts, and evaluate the effects of those changes.

Goals

• Identify first, second, and third person pronouns, and practise switching from one to another.
• Evaluate the effects of writing using different personal pronouns.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will make changes to existing texts by changing the personal pronouns in those texts.

In this lesson, students examine word choice in a pair of published reviews.

Goals

• Identify words with particular effects in a particular genre of English writing, the review.
• Discuss the effects of word choice in real language in use.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will look at two published reviews and analyse the language choices that the writers made.

We have to have some sort of structure to organise words if we are to communicate. That structure is a big part of grammar. Linguists use a term – syntax – to describe word order.

What are the most frequently used words in English? And could we do without them?

In this activity we will look at suffixes which change verbs and adjectives into nouns. This process is a part of derivational morphology.