Topic: Y6

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

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.)

This lesson asks students to think about tense and aspect, what they mean, and how else we can communicate those meanings.

Goals

• Identify verb tense and aspect. 
• Explain the meaning of verb tense and aspect. 
• Use multimodal literacy skills to present information from words as pictures. 

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will be describing some pictures using language, and then drawing some pictures to describe language.