action verbs and linking verbs

Action and Linking Verbs

Activity 1

After the lessons on action and linking verbs it is good to test how students apply what they have learned through sentence construction This activity will not be simple sentence construction . Rather , the students will be provided with a pool of words from which they will choose to make up their own sentences

There will be two levels : easy and hard . The easy level would include simple constructed sentence with only one subject and one predicate . The hard level would be compound sentences that may

have two or more verbs

It will be more interesting if this activity is done on the blackboard in to facilitate dynamics within the classroom . The class may be divided into teams whose members will take turns in filling up each sentence

Prepare ten sentences for each level . Each sentence would be missing an action verb or a linking verb

Ex : Joanne _____ to church every Sunday morning

Prepare the missing action verbs and linking verbs for each sentence in sheets of that the students can post into the blank space . Ensure that there are many verb choices to make the activity more interesting The students can even play with their imagination in answering the questions

For the above example , the action verb could be goes , walks , runs bikes , etc . In to increase difficulty it is good to also include other conjugations of the verbs (go , went walk , walked run , ran biking ) in the word pool...