GROOVY GRAMMAR GRAMMAR WITH A GROOVY THEME Learning

*GROOVY GRAMMAR* (GRAMMAR WITH A GROOVY THEME)

Learning Outcomes • Demonstrate an ability to define the different kinds of nouns. • Describe a noun using adjectives only.

• What is a noun and an adjective?

Food Frisbee. • Aim of the game: 1. Throw the frisbee to a fellow groover. 2. Where the pad of the right thumb lands, you have to name the word. For example, if your thumb lands on ‘adjective’ name an adjective: beautiful. • PLEASE KEEP CASUALTIES TO A MINIMUM!

Aims • To teach the basic grammar words of the noun and adjective, and give learners a basic understanding of these words and how they’re used.

• You have to learn to walk before you can boogie. • (Noun (informal), a dance to pop or rock music)

Noun Match Game • How to play the game: • Match each noun with its description and example. • E. g. • Noun: Description: Example.

What is a noun? • There are four types of noun: • Common: an object you can see or touch, e. g. pen, table, car. • Abstract: thoughts, ideas, qualities or emotion, e. g. peace, anger, truth. • Collective: one word indicating a collection of people or objects, e. g. group, herd, queue.

• Proper: an individual name; a place a person or an object, e. g. Birmingham, Jane, Tower of London.

What is an adjective? • An adjective (underlined) is a describing word. It tells us what a noun is like: • Old book, • Sensible child, • Smelly socks.

Describe a noun game. • Aim of the game: • Individually, write down as many adjectives you can think of, in 3 minutes, to describe a peacock.

Describe a Peacock (using adjectives only).

Describe a Peacock (using adjectives only). Feathery, Colourful, Attractive, Noisy, Proud, Bright, Blue, Dominant, Beautiful, Shiny.

What were the outcomes for today’s class? • Demonstrate an ability to define the different kinds of nouns. • Describe a noun using adjectives only.

Conclusion • Next lesson: verbs and adverbs. • Game show of ultimate funk!