Schoolhouse Rock: Grammar - Unpack Your Adjectives Music Video. 5 creative activities for teaching adjectives. Look at this paragraph: ‘This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to spend the night. His wife had died. So he was visiting the dead wife’s relatives in Connecticut. He called my wife from his in-law’s. Arrangements were made. This is the opening paragraph of the short story ‘Cathedral’ by Raymond Carver. Look at those happy students… how else could we describe them? That wasn’t so easy was it? Teaching learners about the importance of adjectives gives them the opportunity to be more creative in their use of English. 1. Compile a list of nouns from the coursebook unit you’re covering or the theme you’re teaching around. At this point, you can take the activity in at least two different ways. Firstly, one learner can unfold their word and collocate their noun with an adjective. 2. In this activity you encourage the opposite literal practice to that espoused by Raymond Carver. 3.
The classroom provides an environment that is rich in adjectives, so why not use it? 4. 5. Parts of Speech - Definitions. Grammaropolis. Preposition Song. Gimme Prepositional Phrase - Preposition Song. Interjections. Conjunction Song from Grammaropolis - "Let's Bring It All Together" Rock and Roll Adverbs - Adverb Song. "Preposition" by The Bazillions. Lights, Camera, Action Verbs! Pronouns.