Action Verbs Vocabulary
Teaching Vocabulary
Learning Objective: Recognize action verbs through pictures and use them in written and spoken language.
Introduction: An action verb is a verb that expresses physical or mental action.
The action verb tells us what the subject of our clause or sentence is doing-physically or mentally.
Vocabulary
- Dance
- jump
- sleep
4. cook
5. eat
7. run
8. walk
9. fly
10.swim
11. hug
13.rollerblade
14. play
15.ride
16.sing
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Vocabulary Practice
Teacher:
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look at the picture and write the correct verb.
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II Read the story and underline the action verbs.
Elephant and Friends
One day an elephant wandered into a forest in search of friends.
He saw a monkey on a tree.
“Will you be my friend?" asked the elephant.
Replied the monkey, “You are too big. You can not jump from trees like me."
Next, the elephant met a rabbit. He asked him to be his friends.
But the rabbit said, “You are too big to play in my burrow!"
Then the elephant met a frog.
“Will you be my friend? He asked.
“How can I?" asked the frog.
“You are too big to swim about like me."
The elephant was upset. He met a fox next.
“Will you be my friend?" he asked the fox.
The fox said, “Sorry, sir, you are too big."
to run like me
The next day, the elephant saw all the animals in the forest running for their lives.
The elephant asked them what the matter was?
The bear replied, “There is a tiger in the forest. He’s trying to eat us all up!"
The animals all run away to hide.
The elephant wondered what he could do to solve everyone in the forest.
Meanwhile, the tiger kept eating up whoever he could find.
The elephant walk up to the tiger and say, “Please, Mr. Tiger, do not eat up these poor animals."
“Mind your own business!" growled the tiger.
The elephant has a no choice but to give the tiger a hefty kick.
The frightened tiger run for his life.
The elephant ambled back into the forest to announce the good news to everyone.
All the animals thanked the elephant.
They said, “You are just the right size to be our friend."
III. Write five sentences using the vocabulary words.
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