Lesson Plan of Adverbs English Grade V

Lesson Plan of Adverbs

English Grade V

Students’ Learning Outcomes

·         Identify and use adverbs of manner, times, place and frequency.

Information for Teachers

·         A Verb: a word used to define an action, state, or incidence, and making the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

·         An adverb: a word that describes or gives more information about a verb, adjective, phrase or other adverbs in sentence. Such as ‘he eat quickly and ‘it was extremely good’. ‘Extremely and quickly are both adverbs.

·         An Adverb:    a word or phrase that transforms or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, stating a kith and kin of place, time, situation, style, reason, degree, etc. (e.g., mildly, quite, then, there ).

·         An adverb: An adverb can be auxiliary to a verb to alter its meaning. Commonly, an adverb states you when, where, how, in what manner, or to what amount an action is accomplished.

·         Many adverbs finish in ly (mostly those that are used to prompt how an action is accomplished).

·         Though numerous adverbs finish ly, lots, e.g., fast, never, well, very, most, least, more, less, now, far, and there.

·         An adverb: adverb (noun): a word that changes a verb, an adjective or one more adverb, stating manner, place, time or degree; a word that can change a phrase, clause or sentence.

·         An adverb: tell us more about verbs. They tell us ‘how’, ‘when’, ‘where’, and ‘how often’ something is done.

·         An adverb of time: an adverb of time indicates the time of action. It may answers the question “when”.

·         An adverb of manner: an adverb of manner shows how the action takes place. It answers the question. “How”.

·         An adverb of place: an adverb of place tells where the action takes place. It may answers the question “where”.

·         An adverb of frequency:  an adverb of frequency tells how often the action takes place. It may answer the question “how often”.

·         Adverb of degree: An adverb of degree states us the level or range that somewhat is done or occurs. Words of adverb of degree are nearly, much, nearly, quite, really, so, too, very, etc.

·         Adverb of Purpose/Reason: it pronounces the purpose /reason for the action.

·         Adverb of affirmation: tells whether a report is positive or expresses approval or endorsement such as supposedly, certainly, positively, undoughtably, and yes.

·         Adverb of negation: expresses a negative condition or refusal such as no, not, never.

·         Adverb of quantity: it describe about the count of nouns such as a car, two cars etc.

Material / Resources

Chalk/marker, duster, charts of adverbs, flashcards of adverbs, textbook

Worm up activity

·         Create a mind map.

·         Give students a root sentence and ask them to add adverbs to it.

·         For examples:

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·         The root sentence is ‘Ali likes to jog’.

·         With addition of the 4 adverbs it becomes: (Ali likes to jog slowly in Zama park on Sunday morning every week)

·         Give other root sentences to students and ask them to use adverbs of time, place, manner and frequency to them one by one or all in one sentence.

Development

Activity 1

·         Ask students what they think is the function of adverbs, based on the worm up activity.

·         Tell them that adverbs have different kinds but we will discuss.

Adverbs

    Manner                                             Time                                                 Place                               Frequency

·         Draw four columns on the board and ask the students to copy them in their notebooks.

 

Manner	Time	Place	Frequency
Slowly Sadly Happily Excitedly Loudly	Now Yesterday Today Tomorrow Before	Here There Everywhere Outside Inside	Always Often Never Again Once

·         Explain that adverbs of manner usually end in “ly”.

·         Through examples clarify their concept of different types of adverbs.

1.       Adverbs of Manner:

o   She writes neatly.

o   She talks loudly.

o   He is sitting quietly.

·         Adverbs of manner answers the question ‘how the action is done’.

2.       Adverb of Time:

o   My friend will come today/tomorrow.

o   I am working now

o   Annie bought a toy yesterday.

·         Adverb of time answers the question when the action takes place.

3.       Adverb of Place:

o   The train will stop here.

o   He is standing outside.

o   I looked for my pen everywhere.

·         Adverb of place answers the question where the action takes place.

4.       Adverb of Frequency:

o   He always speaks the truth.

o   Ali never misses his bus.

o   He will come again.

·         Adverb of frequency answers the question how often somebody does something.

Activity 2

·         Ask the students to write two short paragraphs on these topics, using adverbs of time, place, frequency and manner.

My favorite activity during the day

What I like to see my mother do

What I like to see my father do

Sum up / Conclusion

·         Ask students to sum up what we have learnt today along with the samples of various kinds of adverbs.

Assessment

·         Ask the students to write five sentences using the following adverbs. It is better if the sentences are connected to each other, for example: they can be written as a paragraph on ‘One day in school’.

·         Use happily, quickly, loudly, here, always, etc.

Follow up

·         Any related task from the textbook must be done as extension/follow up task.

·         Continue to point out adverbs to students in their daily conversation.