Unit 2
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Make four sentences from each box. Example: The boys play football.
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sings well. play football. sing a song. plays the drums. drives a blue car. goes to the concert. clap loudly. walk to the concert.
My sister / The boys
You/Dad
Subjects and verbs agree
The verb must have the correct ending. It must agree with its subject. He/She/It arrives early. You/We/The children arrive early.
6 Write these sentences using the correct form of the verb. 1 My sister ____________ the piano. (play/plays)
2 I ____________ to listen to music than to play it. (prefer/prefers) 3 Our puppy ____________ sticks in his mouth. (catch/catches) 4 School ____________ at 8.30 a.m. (begin/begins) 5 Fluff sometimes ____________ in the night. (bark/barks) 6 Puppies usually ____________ cats. (chase/chases) 7 Jordan ____________ the strings on his guitar. (fix/fixes) 8 He ____________ to church on Sunday. (go/goes)
7 Look carefully at the verb in each sentence. Write the sentence, using the correct subject.
WB 4 p32
1 We/She organise a concert every year. 2 My Dad/parents always comes along.
3 My brother/The girls sit at the back of the hall. 4 The concert/concerts raises money for the library. 5 The choir/choirs meets on Tuesdays. 6 I/He play football after school on Mondays. 7 Mr. Bates/Two teachers runs the school band. 8 My friend/friends use the computer in the library.
DA Exercise 5: Allow students to answer fewer questions, according to ability. • Subject–verb agreement – Give students a sentence such as "He plays football." and ask how they would say it in Creole. Is it different? If so in what way? • Extension: Give students a simple sentence, for example, “Grandma takes the bus to town.” Go round the class giving each student a new subject. So you say, “The boys” or “I” or “Sam” and the student has to respond, “The boys take the bus to town” or “Sam takes …”
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