1. ELD-Animals Descriptions 2
Objective: Students will be able to describe an animal’s actions using verbs and adverbs.
vocabulary word: gait

2. Our predictions for the word gait
To put together A door A way of walking To swallow or eat A way of stepping, walking, or running (4) Chance to talk

3. Gait is
A step, pace, stride, or trot.
Sample sentence:
The horse’s gait indicates that his ankles are hurt.

4. The grammatical forms we will use are
Present-tense verbs and adverbs to describe an animal’s action.

5. Grammatical Forms verbs adverbs describes what a subject does
describes how a subject does an action

6. Present tense verbs we might use to describe an animal’s actions
bear
snake
dolphin
hawk
hunts
slithers
swims
flies
eats
sheds
jumps
kills
fights
bites
thinks
deficates

7. Adverbs that we might use to modify the animal’s actions
gracefully
purposefully
effortlessly
cautiously
stealthily
recklessly
swiftly
hurriedly
quietly
Peacefully
Loudly
well
Sloppily
Nastily
Awesomely
roughly

8. Our sentence frames Question: What does a/an_____(animal) do?
Response:
A/an ______(animal) _____(present tense verb) ________ (adverb).

9. Example sentence frames
Question:
What does a lion do?
Response:
A lion roars loudly.