Mrs Proudley English h.proudley@dovehouse.hants.sch.uk

Challenge 1: (An adult will have to read this activity to you and explain what you have to do).

You will need: pencil, highlighter and paper (or just another coloured pen / pencil)

VerbsWhen we are at school, we spend a lot of time practising our Literacy skills. Today you are looking at a skill that you have practised many times, in fact you are an expert at this! But it is important that we do not forget about verbs. Let’s think about the characters in the Lion King performance to help us understand more about verbs.

Look at the picture below, could you explain to the adult helping you what a verb is?

Have a go at reading these action words with an adult. Can you highlight the ing in each verb?

Sometimes we call verbs doing words or action words.

We also know the verbs that we look at have ing at the end of the word.

dancing cooking listening kicking

You have now seen lots of verbs. Can you spot verbs in a sentence? Highlight which words are verbs.

1. The monkey is pointing.

2. The monkey is holding the magic

stick.

3. The monkey is singing loudly.

4. The monkey is crouching.

1. The actors are practising.

2. The actors are listening.

3. The actors are sitting.

4. The actors are speaking.

5. The actors singing.

1. The monkey is holding Simba.

2. Mufasa is looking at his

kingdom.

3. Sarafina is standing next to

Mufasa.

4. Simba is looking at all the

animals.

1. Scar is lying down.

2. Scar is thinking of a plan.

3. Scar is resting.

4. Scar is scratching.

1. Pumbaa is singing with his friend.

2. Pumbaa is laughing a lot.

3. Timon is dancing.

4. Timon is waving his hands.

Now have a go at completing these sentences with your own. You could use the red words to help you or think of your own.

The characters are __________________ along the fallen tree trunk.

The moon is _____________________ brightly.

The characters are ____________________ loudly.

hopping walking shinning raining singing

Mufasa and Scar are __________________________ .

Mufasa is _______________________ .

Scar is ________________________. laughing fighting tickling scratching growling

Pumbaa is ____________________ .

Simba is _______________________ .

Simba is _______________________ .

laughing crying swimming sitting

Fantastic, you have completed lots of work about verbs. Try this last challenge. List as many verbs as you can with your adult. Hint: think of all the things that you have done during the lockdown. See if you can think of more than 10! Remember to write them down.