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Geoffrey Were
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Wala: Descriptive and modal verbs.
L.O: explore descriptive verbs and modal verbs.
Success Criteria:
a) I can identify and choose descriptive verbs.
b) I can identify and use modal verbs appropriately.
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Check your understanding.(5min)
Work with a partner and complete a sentence using the verb must.
You must ...
Now replace must with may.
Which sentence gives permission,
and which one obliges you to do something?
Do the same with could and should. Explain the difference in the effect.
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Activity 1 (15 minutes)
Discuss the questions and write the answers.
Learners book page 15
Learners must find text examples to back up their ideas – their ideas alone are not enough.
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Answers.
For working so hard when she could be
enjoying the day.
When summer is over, food will be hard to find. Ant is reminding Grasshopper to prepare for this.
The way she speaks(tone) As it happens ... you know! snapped.
Being cold and hungry in the winter and seeing that the ants have provisions while he has none.
Accept any thoughtful answer.
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Activity 2
(10 minutes)
Verbs can tell you about characters through how they act and move.
Learners book page 16 and 17
Gr 1: Do (a)
Gr 2: Do (b), (c), (d)
Gr 3: (e), (f)
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Answers.
a) Learners own answers.
b) Possible verbs: snapped, toiling
(continued on her industrious way)
c) bustled, lugging, scurry, gathering, never stopping, busied by, continued on her industrious way, toiling – all indicate that the Ant was a hard worker and responsible/reliable.
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Answers.
d) Verb: to work out or understand something by thinking about it deeply.
e) Past tense – many examples could be given,
e.g. was bouncing, bustled, was lugging, watched, found
f) Present tense – many examples could be given, e.g. Take it easy, are working, is
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Work with modal verbs.
Learners book page 17 ( Discuss )
Modal verbs can say more than how likely something is to happen (I might ... I will ...I could ... I may ... I would ...).
They can also express obligation (I ought to ... I should ...I must ...).
They can also express permission (I may ...)
They can also express ability (I can ... I could ...).
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Activity 3
(15 minutes)
Learners book page 18
Gr 1: Do (a)
Gr 2: Do (b)
Gr 3: Do (c), the modal verb must
fit the context of the pairs of sentences.
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Exit ticket.
Organise learners into groups and give each group a set of modal cards.
They place them face down on the table and in turn, they turn over a card and invent a sentence using the modal verb.
Does it express possibility, obligation, permission or ability?
(H/W) Workbook pg 11 and 12
Wala: Descriptive and modal verbs.
L.O: explore descriptive verbs and modal verbs.
Success Criteria:
a) I can identify and choose descriptive verbs.
b) I can identify and use modal verbs appropriately.
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