Words
Objective
To explore the meaning of simple, everyday words and how they relate to your experience of the world.
There are many kinds of words.
Do you know the words for what you see in the picture? Talk to a partner and write down as many words as you can.
Can you describe what you do in the morning before you go to school? Here is a list of what you might do, but the order in which you do things has been mixed up:
a) have breakfast.
b) get dressed.
c) put on my shoes.
d) get up.
e) clean my teeth.
f) have a shower
In the next activity, try agreeing on the order with the whole class.
Here are pictures of some colours which things can have:
Write the name of all the colours you can see.
You have now used words to describe what things look like, to tell us what you do in the morning and to give a name to some objects. We have special names for different types of words:
- Words which tell us what something looks like, how it is, are called adjectives.
- Words which refer to actions, to what is being done are called verbs
- Words which provide a name for a thing or object, for a person or an animal are called nouns.
Match each of the words from the previous activity to the other word class it belongs to.
Add three extra examples to each word class.
Write a paragraph about getting ready for school in the morning.
- Use nouns, adjectives and verbs from the previous activities.
- Write at least six sentences.
This lesson is adapted (with permission) from Words and Meanings: A Systematic Guide for the Teaching of English Vocabulary, by Gabriele Stein.
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Words
Activity 1
Show learners the image in the first slide. Ask them to work with a partner and write down as many words as they can see. Share back with the whole class and accept any valid answers.
Activity 2
Show learners the list of activities. Ask them to put the letters a-f in the appropriate order. Circulate and accept any reasonable answers. On the next slide, disucss possible solutions as a whole class.
Activity 3
Show learners the multi-coloured circles. Ask them to identify and write down all the colours they can see.
Activity 4
Ask leaners to look back on the tree activities. Explain that they have been working with three special types of words that do different jobs.
Check their understanding by completing the next task. Learners identify which of the words are nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Nouns: dog, cake, computer
Verbs: have (breakfast), clean (my teeth), get up
Adjectives: yellow, red, blue
Finally, ask learners to write a paragraph about getting ready in the morning. You may like to start by modelling an example paragraph as a whole class. Ask learners to include nouns, verbs and adjectives they have seen in the day's lesson, and to write at least six sentences. As an extension, learners can include extra nouns, verbs and adjectives and swap with a partner to identify them.
This lesson is adapted (with permission) from Words and Meanings: A Systematic Guide for the Teaching of English Vocabulary, by Gabriele Stein.