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.
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Nouns
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Adjectives
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1
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Faith
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Faithful
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2
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Mercy
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Merciful
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3
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Difficulty
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Difficult
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4
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Interest
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Interesting
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5
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Style
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Stylish
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6
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Laziness
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Lazy
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7
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Beauty
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Beautiful
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8
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Ugliness
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Ugly
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9
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Charm
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Charming
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10
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Science
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Scientific
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· 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
