1. Grammar Starter Verbs All ✰ Most ✰✰ Some ✰✰✰
Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition?
Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples?
Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

2. In the back of your exercise book...
Grammar Starter: Verbs
Definition: An action or state of being (a ‘doing’ word).
Example: One duckling quacked loudly to its mother.
Ask for pupils’ definition before showing the correct one.
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Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition?
Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples?
Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

3. Task time: create your own
Change the verbs in these sentences to make them more exciting.
One builder ate his lunch very quickly.
The policeman looked at the stolen car.
The old lady walked to the shops to buy some milk.
“Stop talking” the teacher said to the class.
I remember the day I broke my leg – it was not nice!
Hear feedback.
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Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition?
Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples?
Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

4. Task time: now find it!
Whilst reaching down to drink from the vibrant blue water in the well, the fox fell in. Try as he would, he could not get out again due to the enormity of the wall.
Not long after a goat wandered by. Seeing the fox down there, he enquired as to the reason why.
“I am enjoying the cool, pure water” stated the fox. “Would you not love to join me and taste it?”
Without hesitating to think, the foolish goat jumped down. No sooner had he reached the bottom than the cunning old fox soared onto his back and scaled to the top.
Staring down at the glum goat, the fox chuckled and taunted “Next time, friend goat, be sure to look before you leap.”
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Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition?
Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples?
Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

5. Task time: now find it!
Whilst reaching down to drink from the vibrant blue water in the well, the fox fell in. Try as he would, he could not get out again due to the enormity of the wall.
Not long after a goat wandered by. Seeing the fox down there, he enquired as to the reason why.
“I am enjoying the cool, pure water” stated the fox. “Would you not love to join me and taste it?”
Without hesitating to think, the foolish goat jumped down. No sooner had he reached the bottom than the cunning old fox soared onto his back and scaled to the top.
Staring down at the glum goat, the fox chuckled and taunted “Next time, friend goat, be sure to look before you leap.”
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Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition?
Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples?
Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?