Verbs

Session 1:

Pre requisite knowledge: Students should have a basic knowledge of action words.

Objective: Students should be able to define & identify verbs.

Aim: Students should be able to form proper sentences

Resources: Text book, Reference books, Internet.

1. Introduction

Informal introduction with an activity.

Teacher calls out 4-5 students & whispers some action words like jump, dance, pray, etc. into students ears & asks them to mime. The rest of the class watch them mime & guess the action word. The teacher writes them on the black board.
 
Ask students to now form sentences with those action words & write them on the board. Get more students to give sentences & write them on the blackboard

1. Procedure

A verb is an action word. It expresses what we want to say. It tells us what persons or things do.

A verb is a very important part of a sentence. It is the heart of a sentence. We cannot form a sentence without a verb.

1. Closure

Read & explain Pg 57 from Grammar Roots.

Session 2

Pre requisite knowledge: Students should have learnt that a verb is an important part of a sentence.

Objective: students should be able o point out verbs in a sentence

Aim: To access the previously learnt knowledge

Resources: reference books
 
Procedure: solve C.W. stencil 1

Session 3

Pre requisite knowledge: students should be able to express orally in a sentence or two

the importance & use of verbs.

Objective: students should distinguish between main verbs and helping verbs Aim

Resources: reference books

Procedure: what are helping verbs? Ask students this question. They’ll come up with answers like,” something that helps”& so on. After getting answers, tell the students that verbs which help express an action are called helping verbs.

E.g. they were quarrelling over a beyblade
Were=helping verb
Quarrelling = main verb

Were is the helping word which expresses the action quarrelling
Give students more examples like                                                                                                                                      
1] I am writing on the blackboard.                                                                                                  
2] The sun is shining.                                                                                                                
         Similarly get students to give a few more examples                                                           

Closure: Solve King Vikram’s wisdom page 58 from Grammar Roots. While solving it explain the helping verbs to students.
 
Session 4
                                                     

Solve C.W. stencil 2                                                                                                          

Session 5

       Pre requisite knowledge: students should have a clear knowledge of main and                        
                                                   helping verbs.
      
       Objective: Students should be able to distinguish between Transitive &    
                         Intransitive verbs.
       
Aim: Students should know what the object & subject of the sentence is.

Resources : text books , reference books , internet.

Procedure: Explain that verbs are of 2 types – Transitive & Intransitive.                                         
                  Transitive verbs require an object while Intransitive verbs do not .
                  
        

Explain clearly the meaning of the word ‘object’

Read pg. 58,59 from Grammar Roost textbook & explain .

SESSION 6

Solve c.w. stencil 3.

SESSION 7, 8

Recap the chapter & complete pg 60 in Grammar roots textbook. Catch up with  the pending work .
Play scrabble with children on the blackboard. Give one verb like jump & ask each student to come up one by one to the blackboard to join & connect another verb with the previous verb.

SESSION9, 10

Pre requisite knowledge: Students should list down & indicate singular & plural                       
                                            nouns.

Objective: students should use the singular & plural forms of verbs.

Aim: Students should be able to form correct sentences using Singular & Plural forms                               
Of verbs .

Resources: text book, reference books, internet.

Procedure: Children are already familiar with Singular & plural. Explain that a singular noun takes a singular verb & the plural noun takes a plural verb.

e.g.1 – The book is on the table

Singular noun     singular verb

e.g.2 – The books are on the table

     Plural noun Plural Verb

Ask students to give more sentences using the same noun as singular & plural.

Explain clearly that when 2 singular Nouns/Pronouns are joined by ‘and’ , it becomes plural & takes a plural verb.

E.g.- Sita & Gita are best friends

Sita=singular
Gita=Singular
Are=plural

Collective noun is taken as a singular unit & therefore possesses a singular verb.

E.g. Our class is the best.
Class=collective noun
Is= singular verb
Read & explain pg 61 from grammar roots

SESSION 10
Solve c.w. stencil 5

SESSION 11,12,13.
 
Pre requisite knowledge: Students should know the usage of  ‘is , am , are’ verbs .

Objective: Students should use correct ‘was , were’ past tense verbs.

Aim: forming proper sentences using the above verbs.

Procedure: Explain the concept of was/were, has/have, verbs
Was, were; are used with past tense sentences. Was is used with singular noun/ pronoun and were is used with plural noun/ pronoun.

                    Singular                                  Plural                        

1 The book was on the table.                 1 The books were on the table

2 I was happy when I got the present.    2  We were happy when the teacher declared a Holiday

However with you, we always use WERE , whether YOU stands for singular or plural.
E.g. – you were the head boy last year (singular)
        - you were late yesterday (plural)   

We use ‘has’ with singular noun/pronoun & ‘have’ with plural noun/pronoun.
We use ‘has/have’ with present tense sentences

1 A triangle has 3 sides                                            1Triangles have 3 sides
                                                                         
2 Ash has a pokemon                                              2 We have many pokemon

However with YOU & I, we always use HAVE.

Closure: End the session by solving exercises 1, 2, 3, 4 (pg 62,63,64) from Grammar Roots according to session 11, 12, 13.

SESSION 14

Solve C.W. stencil 6,7

SESSION 15

Recap the chapter by asking students to silently read the chapter – Verbs Singular Plural from Grammar Roots.

Activity
Divide the class into 5 groups. Give each group a set of words (already provided) to form a proper sentence. Go round each group encouraging children while they’re doing the activity. When the children have finished, ask them to come forward with their sentences, forming a story. Write those 5 sentences on the blackboard & call students to underline all the verbs.