In this activity, use the interactive whiteboard to build verb phrases. Can you use all the words and make every verb phrase grammatical?
Encourage your students to explore the meaning of the verb phrases they construct: how does the use of modal verbs affect the meaning of the main verb, for example? What about the tense?
Drag words next to each other and they will 'snap' together. Double-click to 'unsnap'.
Practise changing voice: from active sentences to passive, and passive sentences to active.
Lesson Plan
The teacher explains that today, we will practise turning actives into passives, and passives into actives.
Activity 1 in the right hand menu presents students with active sentences. Ask students to work individually, in pairs, or in groups and to write down a passive version of the sentence.
Students are asked to communicate using a bank of nouns - and nothing else.
Goals
Communicate with a partner using only nouns.
Discuss what can and can't be easily expressed using only nouns.
Determine which other types of words are useful for expressing complex ideas.
Lesson Plan
The teacher explains that this activity will involve you trying to express progressively more complicated concepts and actions to a partner using only these words, your own body language and imagination.
This activity involves working with nonfiniteclauses to do some sentence-splitting and sentence-joining. The purpose is to develop your awareness of the different kinds of structures that are available to you as a writer.
I’m sitting here looking out of the window. Nothing’s happening; it never does. I sit here every day for hours on end, just looking. Looking for what? I don’t know. They never told me what I should be looking for. And I’ve never found out.
I once thought I’d found something, but I couldn’t be sure. It might just have been a trick of the light. How was I to tell?
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