Week 5 – Lesson 1

Grade: 4
Subject: Language Arts
Date: October 16, 2020
Topic:  Action verbs and verbs of being|Parts of Speech
 
 

What are Verbs?
There are different types of verbs. 
Some verbs we experience from day to day.
 These are action verbs and they may either be in the present 
or in the past.
 Look at the pictures below. 
 



   
Other verbs do not show actions; they show state of being. 
State of being shows that someone or something exists or existed, 
has or had something, etc.
 Words such as: is, are, has, have, was, were, be, been, being,
 are examples of words that show state of being.
Action

1. Alia Atkinson swims for gold.

2. People from all across Jamaica run for Sagicor.

3. Watch as the children climb the tree.

4. The baby sleeps soundly.

State of Being

1. Alia is a great athlete.

2. Many persons have come together for the Sagicor run.

3. These children are having fun climbing the tree.

4. The baby has slept soundly for the past three nights.

Activities
Use pictures below to create sentences using state of being.
1.    Use ’is’.

2. Use ’are’.

3.Use ’being’.

4.Use ’were’.

• Language Arts Workbook 4 – pages 31 and 32.

• New Junior English Revised – page 39; Exercise 52, page 40;
  Exercise 55.

Homework
New Junior English Revised – page 41; Exercise 56.