ETL112_4: Verb Groups
Last Week We explored the basics of grammar, particularly
1. Independent and subordinate clauses
2. how clauses are made up of three main parts (constituent groups),
3. the function of verb groups, noun groups and adverbials and how these can be used
in classroom writing or speaking activities.
Review Quiz
a) What do we know about clauses? (types, features etc)
b) Describe an activity you could use to help children use adverbials to make their sentences more
interesting
This Week We’ll learn
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how to identify the major parts of verb groups, including verbs types and modals
how to identify the tense of a verb.
Reading: p 29-33 of Study Guide, p15-26 of Derewianka
4 Types of Verbs: Action, Sensing, Saying, Relating
Unscramble the following by putting them in the appropriate box
Hope, roam, smell, realise, mean, plead, reflect, shout, enjoy, am, blow, take, has, shake, suggest, give, cry,
continue, rub, whisper, gobble, work, recognise, seem, include
Action verbs
Sensing verbs
Saying verbs
Relation verbs
Verb Types and Genres
Review: What is genre (or text type)?
 What genres would use a lot of action verbs?
 What genres would use a lot of sensing verbs?
 What genres would use a lot of relation verbs?
Action Verbs and Poem Writing Activity
See p19-29 of Derewianka: two poems built on action verbs:
Create a lesson plan that gets students reading an example of an action-verb poem and then creating their
own poem, individually, in small groups or as a whole class.
Verb Tenses and Verbs with no Tense
Revise the 6 main present and past tenses on pp 30-31 of the study guide, and modal verbs on p 30 of
Derewianka.
Have a go at exercise 4.2 and 4.1
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TASK: Use your AL Text and the text analysis template given
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Identify the verbs in one section of the text (3-5 clauses)
Name each type of verb: action, sensing, saying or relating and describe what information or
picture it gives
 Write up a lesson plan (including curric outcome) with a short script for yourself as the teacher, to
talk and ask questions about:
1. the types of verbs the author uses
2. the kinds of meanings s/he creates with them
3. sentences the children could create they use the same verbs but with different noun groups
Homework
1. Continue your Glossary of Language Terms. Add at least 4 more terms
from this week’s work.
2. a) Write up your analysis (from the AL text task above) of way the
author of your AL text uses verbs in the section you selected and discussed on
lecture day.
b) Describe how you would teach about the verbs of this section of your AL text
and link to Australian Curriculum outcome(s). You can present this as a lesson
plan or in written paragraphs. (This is the beginning of Assignment 2)
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