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Lessons that put you a class ahead www.tomorrowsclass.com [email protected] +061 0427 340 757 Lesson title: Subject / Verb Agreement Skill focus: Grammar Length: 10 mins Year levels: Years 8-10 Instructions: Subject-verb agreement can be a particular issue faced by teachers of ESL students where students speak a first language that has a different verb inflection system to English (which is nearly all languages other than English). It means that students write sentences like: The dog come to our house. The people is not very good. One way we can build students’ subject-verb agreement skills and also work more generally on their vocabulary and writing skills is to engage in an activity called Physical Subject Verb Matchup. Here is how it works: 1. We begin by generating a list of nouns in singular and plural form as well as a list of verbs in singular and plural form. In total, there should be as many words as there are students in our class and there should be as many singular verbs as there are singular nouns and the same for plurals. These words could be based on a text students are studying or a topic they are writing about. The example words below (also attached as a resource) are based on the short film The Black Hole (watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5_Msrdg3Hk ). sounds dramatise symbol of means © Tomorrow’s Class 2014 the protagonist seeks the black hole symbolises close ups force the lighting establishes the empty office seems the protagonist’s clothing appears the protagonist's appearance demonstrates the sound of the photocopier emphasise the protagonist's actions show the safe represents some of the messages of the film include 2. Type the words in a grid, cut them up and shuffle them. 3. Distribute one word to each student in class. 4. Explain to students that there are two types of words that have been given out: Nouns (the names of things), like ‘protagonist’ and ‘sounds’ and verbs (action words), like ‘represents’ and ‘force’. Explain to students that some of the nouns are singular (they name just one thing - like ‘the safe’) or they are plural and refer to a number of things (like ‘close ups’). There are also some singular and some plural verbs. Single nouns need to go with single verbs. Point out to students that one of the crazy things about English is that plural nouns end in ’s’ but plural verbs don’t end in ’s’ - but singular verbs do! 5. The task of students is to move around the room and to match their noun with someone’s verb. Explain to students that by ‘match’, you mean they must grammatically match (i.e a single noun must go with a single verb, or a plural noun with a plural verb) and they must match in meaning as well. You should be able to use both words together in an effective sentence. 6. Give students time to move around the room and speak to at least six other students before finding a match for their words. Ask each pair of students to use their two words in a sentence. © Tomorrow’s Class 2014