VERBS ! - There's a lot to unpack here!
As you know, each successive textbook includes important material taught in the previous year’s textbook. This allows EXPERIENCED students to review the material and NEW students to catch up during the CORE BASICS crash course. There are only 2 weeks allotted to VERBS during the CORE BASICS crash course. There are too many activities and too much content to be covered in this time, especially in Red Book 5 & Black Book 6. Use the time well. Teachers will have to choose appropriate (challenging) lessons for their classes based on level and experience. Teachers should encourage students to study the other pages in their own time.
The VERBS section can be made harder by 1) Adding more VERBS, 2) Changing the TENSE, 3) Changing the grammar, do, does, will, going to, did etc.
DON’T WASTE THE 2 WEEKS PLAYING ‘-ing VERBO’ WITH HIGH LEVEL EXPERIENCED STUDENTS.
Overview of themes covered.
NOTE: RED BOOK 5 and BLACK BOOK 6 have many more topics and may do things in a different order to GREEN BOOK 3 and BLUE BOOK 4.
1) VERB + ING
Learn / review VERB SET 1 & 2 with ‘-ing’. “He is running”, “They are dancing.” etc.
2) S-Rule
Learn / review the ‘S-Rule’ – In the Simple Present Tense we need to add an ‘S’ to the verb for ‘he’, ‘she’ and ‘it’. eg. ‘I drink coffee.’ > ‘He drinkS coffee.’
3)will vs. going to ..
Know the difference! ‘will’ is when we are thinking at the time of speaking. ‘going to’ is used when we have decided to do it.
4) PAST
Simple Past – learn the regular and irregular verbs in the past tense. do-did-, go- went- etc.
1) VERB + ING
Learn / review VERB SET 1 & 2 with ‘-ing’. “He is running”, “They are dancing.” etc.
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‘How to’ —min -How to play, ‘#SPC-01#- VERBO’ from the Teacher’s Manual.
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‘In Action’- #SPC-01- ‘Verbo’ Game.
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‘In Action’- ‘R.S.D.’ and TEST method for the VERB stamp on the Progress Page.
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‘How to’ —PLAY NUMBER TRAP.
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NUMBER TRAP IN ACTION
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Let's Learn 1 (Green and Blue), Let's Learn 2 (Red and Black)
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GREEN BOOK 3
Let’s Learn 1
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BLUE BOOK 4
Let’s Learn 1
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RED BOOK 5
Let’s Learn 2
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BLACK BOOK 6
Let’s Learn 2
'Kid's Vids' for home study. VERB + ing.
‘Kid’s Vid’ – Verb Set 1, Listen and Repeat.
‘Kid’s Vid’ – Verb Set 1, TEST.
‘Kid’s Vid’ – Verb Set 2, Listen and Repeat.
‘Kid’s Vid’ – Verb Set 2, TEST
2) The 'S' Rule.
In the SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE we have to an ‘S’ to the VERB if the PRONOUN is ‘He’, ‘She’ or ‘It’. Eg. ‘I drink coffee’ becomes ‘She drinkS coffee.’ ‘Do you ….?’ becomes ‘Does he/she/it?’
1) Can they identify when the ‘S’ is needed? ie. When there is a ‘He’, ‘She’ or ‘It.’- Play the S-Rule Game
2) Can they flip between needing and ‘S’ and not needing an ‘S’.
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‘How to’ play the S-Rule Game.
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‘In Action’- The S-Rule Game
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‘In Action’ VERBO played using the S-Rule
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‘In Action’ – NUMBER TRAP PLAYED using the S-RULE.
You can change the 50/50 'Do you ..?' games to 'Does he/she ...?'
SONG- Do you like broccoli? Use this song to help learn the question and answer pattern.
‘In Action’ – #FTY-01# – Do you like this?
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‘In Action’ – #FTY-??# – Does he/she like this?
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‘In Action’ – #FTY-03# – Does he/she VERB NOUN?
You can change the 'What do you..." games to 'What does he/she ...?'
‘Kids-Vid’ – ‘The Cheese Method’- – Practice incorporating the VERB from the question into the answer.
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‘In Action’ – R.S.D./Drill -The Cheese Method using a metronome.
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‘In Action’ – R.S.D./Drill -The Cheese Method using a metronome changed to ‘What does he/she ….? ‘
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‘In Action’ – CAT -Q What does he …..?
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‘In Action’ – R.S.D./Drill -The Cheese Method with group or personal answers.
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‘How to’ – #CTQ-01# – Q&A Basic, eg. What do you watch? I watch, with monsters.
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Let's Learn 2 (Green and Blue), Let's Learn 1 (Red and Black)
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GREEN BOOK 3
Let’s Learn 2
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BLUE BOOK 4
Let’s Learn 2
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RED BOOK 5
Let’s Learn 1
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BLACK BOOK 6
Let’s Learn 1
3) will vs. going to (Red and Black Book)
When we get an idea to do something we use ‘will’. If we have decided to do something we use the ‘be’ verb + ‘going to’. ‘Will’ was introduced in Green Book 3, Unit 4. ‘Going to’ was introduced in Blue Book 4, Unit 5. Play the respective, ‘#PSS-14# -Lucky-Dip – Escalating (’cause-effect’ pair) games from those Units.
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‘Let’s Learn’ 3 for RED and BLACK BOOK
‘In-Action’ – #PSS-14- Lucky Dip -Escalating with ‘will’ from GREEN Book, Unit 4 ‘will’. eg. “I’m hungry I will …(choose card) …eat a snack…”.
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‘In-Action’ – #PSS-14- Lucky Dip -Escalating with ‘going to’ from BLUE Book, Unit 5 ‘going to’. eg. “I have a mop I’m going to …sweep the stairs…. Boo, Boo”.
4) The Simple Past (Red and Black Book)
The SIMPLE PAST TENSE
Note the difference between Regular and Irregular Verbs – Play #CTQ-07# – ‘Cumulative Dice Memory’ as played in Grenn Book 3 Unit 6 and Blue Book 4 Unit 6.
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‘Let’s Learn’ 4 for RED and BLACK BOOK
‘PRESENT TENSE’ – ‘Cheese method’- Use this as a warm up for the PAST TENSE.
‘PAST TENSE’ – ‘Cheese method’.
'Kid's Vids' - VERBS all tenses
‘Kid’s Vid’ – Verb Set 1, Listen and Repeat.
‘Kid’s Vid’ – Verb Set 1, TEST.
‘Kid’s Vid’ – Verb Set 2, Listen and Repeat.
‘Kid’s Vid’ – Verb Set 2, TEST
‘Kid’s Vid’ – Verb Set 3, Listen and Repeat.
‘Kid’s Vid’ – Verb Set 3, TEST.
‘Kid’s Vid’ – Verb Set 4, Listen and Repeat.
‘Kid’s Vid’ – Verb Set 4, TEST