Topic: Lessons

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

In this activity, students explore the possibility of placing adverbs in various places within a sentence.

Goals

• Practise constructing sentences with adverbs.
• Identify a key trait of adverbs - that they can often be placed at various points in a sentence.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will be building sentences with adverbs.

Newspaper headlines often compress sequences of actions into very compact structures. Sometimes the meaning becomes ambiguous as a result.

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.

In this lesson, students will explore new modes of communication such as texting, online chat, and Facebook, which often come in for criticism from people who believe that they are damaging the way we use language.

Goals

• Use implicit grammatical knowledge to translate examples of infant speech into complete sentences.
• (For older students) use explicit grammatical knowledge to identify the types of changes that have been made in translating from the original examples.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will look at some real examples of English spoken by infants, and translate it into adult speech.

Goals

• Understand some of the ways that writers use language to create characters
• Analyse the use of language in a literary text

Lesson Plan

• You could start by asking students to think about some of the ways that writers use language to create fictional characters. What makes a convincing character? What are some of their favourite characters from fiction, and why?
• Next, talk students through the first passage from Jekyll & Hyde.

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

Goals

• Identify prefixes, base words, and suffixes.
• Build words by combining prefixes, base words, and suffixes.
• Demonstrate an understanding of word classes by identifying the word class of the newly derived words.
• Demonstrate an understanding of derivational morphology by using newly derived words in sentences.

Lesson Plan

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Sometimes we make confident statements, while at other times we want to express some uncertainty. In this resource we will explore the expression of certainty and uncertainty. This is one of the areas of meaning we call modality.