Verb identification
In this activity, students work through the criteria for identifying verbs.
Goals
- Practise identifying verbs.
- Recognise linguistic criteria for identifying verbs.
- Remember the list of verb criteria for use and application later on.
Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students move beyond what is called the notional or semantic way of identifying verbs as 'doing words' to explore grammatical ways of identifying verbs. (You can listen to Bas Aarts discuss this.)
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Verb identification: Activity 1
Which words do you think are verbs?
Verb identification: Activity 2
He played cricket with Charlie.
Is played a verb?
- Is it a doing word?
- Can it show tense? Can you say Yesterday, I ____ed, for example?
- Does it add -s to agree with a Subject like he or she, as in He ___s.
- Can it take an -ing ending?
He played cricket with Charlie.
Is cricket a verb?