Mrs Proudley year 7 [email protected]English To be completed with an adult as you will need help reading the activity. Verbs We learn lots of different Literacy skills in our English lessons. For example… Full stops Capital letters Adjectives Verbs We do not just spend one lesson learning a particular Literacy skill, we spend lots of lessons practising them. This way, we get really good at them. When we practise something over and over again, we call this ‘overlearning’. It helps that Literacy skill to get stuck in our brains! During the lockdown, we have already thought about verbs. We are going to do some more practise using verbs. A verb is a doing word or an action word. Look at the pictures below and read the sentence with your adult. Get ready with your highlighter. As soon as you spot the verb in the sentence, highlight it.
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Mrs Proudley year 7 [email protected] be completed with an adult as you will need help reading the activity.
Verbs We learn lots of different Literacy skills in our English lessons. For example…
Full stops Capital letters Adjectives Verbs
We do not just spend one lesson learning a particular Literacy skill, we spend lots of lessons practising them. This way, we get really good at them. When we practise something over and over again, we call this ‘overlearning’. It helps that Literacy skill to get stuck in our brains!During the lockdown, we have already thought about verbs. We are going to do some more practise using verbs. A verb is a doing word or an action word. Look at the pictures below and read the sentence with your adult. Get ready with your highlighter. As soon as you spot the verb in the sentence, highlight it. Remember, the verbs we look at have ‘ing’ at the end of the word!
The monkey is holding Simba.Mufassa is smiling.
The hyenas are dribbling. The hyenas are growling. Zazu is crying.
Pumbaa is singing.
Timon is standing on Pumbaa’s head.Simba is smiling.
The fire is burning.The hyenas are looking.The hyenas are waiting.
Simba is dancing and singing.Simba is standing on
the branch.Take care when reading and highlighting these sentences. They look similar, but only one sentence is correct.
Scar is cooking.Scar is fighting.Scar is playing.
Mufassa is swimming.Mufassa is sleeping.Mufassa is scratching.
Mufassa is roaring. Mufassa is fighting.
Mufassa is cleaning.
Simba is crying and talking to his dad.Simba is laughing and shouting with his dad.Simba is drinking and swimming with his dad.Now have a go at completing these sentences with your own choice of verb..
Why not try to challenge yourself! Look at these pictures and write a simple sentence that includes a verb. Remember to highlight the verb to prove you have used it.
We have looked at many pictures of the Lion King. Let’s now prove our understanding even further by using verbs in our everyday language. Draw a picture in the box of something someone in your house is doing. If you have a pet, you could draw a picture of something they are doing. The first one has been done for you.
