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

Challenge 1: (You may need a little help to read the task, but you should be able to have a go at the answers by yourself).

You will need: pencil, highlighter (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?

Mrs Proudley has now put some of these verbs into sentences. Highlight the verbs.

1. The characters are singing.

2. The characters are dancing.

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

3. The characters are smiling.

In the play, what would Scar be doing? Try to think of 4 verbs for Scar.

1.__________________

2.__________________

3.__________________

4___________________

Think of 4 verbs for the monkey.

1.__________________

2.__________________

3.__________________

4___________________

Perhaps you could use some of the verbs you have just thought of to complete these sentences.

1. The monkey is _______________ on the stage.

2. The monkey is ______________ the magic stick.

3. The monkey is _______________ loudly.

4. The monkey is ________________ his knees.

Complete these sentences. The red words may help you. Be careful, not all are helpful!

1. The actors are ____________.

2. The actors are _______________.

3. The actors are _______________.

4. The actors are ______________.

5. The actors ________________.

swimming sitting looking jumping talking practising sleeping

singing

1. The monkey is __________ Simba.

2. Mufasa is __________ at his kingdom.

3. Sarafina is __________ next to Mufasa.

4. Simba is __________ at all the animals.

holding sleeping watching cooking

standing looking

1. Scar is ____________down.

2. Scar is _____________ of a plan.

3. Scar is ________________.

standing lying thinking dancing

looking surfing

Can you write some sentence about Timon and Pumbaa. Remerber each

sentence needs to have a verb.

1._____________________________________________________________________________________________

2._____________________________________________________________________________________________

3._____________________________________________________________________________________________

4._____________________________________________________________________________________________

5._____________________________________________________________________________________________

6._____________________________________________________________________________________________

7._____________________________________________________________________________________________

8._____________________________________________________________________________________________

Go back over your sentences and do your checks. Have you got?... Full stops Capitals Finger spaces Highlight all the verbs

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.