Changing Parts of Speech


Lesson Plan of Changing Parts of Speech

English Grade V

Students’ Learning Outcomes

·         Change parts of speech of a given word.

Information for Teachers

·         All words in the English language can be classified as one of the eight different parts of speech. 
·         The eight parts of speech are nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. 
·         A verb is a type of word (part of speech) that states about an action or a state. It is the key part of a sentence
·         A verb: a word used to pronounce an action, state, or occurrence, and making the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
·         A noun is a part of speech that recognizes a person, place, thing, or idea.
·         An adjective is a word that defines, recognizes or more defines a noun or a pronoun.
·         There are some root words which go on to become nouns or verbs. For example: if Uma is performing (verb) on stage, we can also say that she is giving a performance (noun).
·         The root word stays the same, and we can change a verb to a noun or noun to a verb by adding or taking away a few alphabets.

Material / Resources

Chalk/marker, board, textbook

Worm up activity

·         Ask students to change these adjectives into adverbs:
Proud,    clever,    slow,    angry,    heavy
·         Ask them if someone is walking in a proud way, we can say that he is walking proudly.
·         If someone solves a sum in a clever way, he is working _______? (cleverly)
·         If someone speaks in an angry tone, he speaks _______? (angrily)
·         Tell students that word forms can be changed: verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and nouns can change class by changing, or adding a few alphabets.

Development

Activity 1

·         Ask students to look at the following table and familiarize themselves with these words before they use them in sentences.
·         Decide how many of these you want to do with your students. You don’t have to do all of them.
 Nouns
       Adjectives
1
Faith
Faithful
2
Mercy
Merciful
3
Difficulty
Difficult
4
Interest
Interesting
5
Style
Stylish
6
Laziness
Lazy
7
Beauty
Beautiful
8
Ugliness
Ugly
9
Charm
Charming
10
Science
Scientific
·         Remind students what nouns are?
·         Remind students what adjectives are?
For example, a princess who has beauty (noun) is a beautiful (adjective) princess.
A dog that shows laziness (noun) is a lazy (adjective) dog.
·         Ask students to make sentences similar to the ones in the examples for the entire noun – adjective pairs, you can decide how many of them you want to do, you don’t have to do all.

Sum up / Conclusion

·         Ask the students:
o   What are adjectives?
o   What are nouns?

Assessment

·         Ask students to use some of the given pairs in sentences.
·         Check to see if students are using the words properly.

Follow up

·         Point out to students the use of other parts of speech that are changed from one to the other’s

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