Grade level: 10

Subject: English

Topic: Subject-verb agreement

Duration: 45 min

Objectives:

At the end of the session, students should be able to:

 Explain the rules of subject-verb agreement.
 Construct their own sentences using correct subject-verb agreement.
 Participate in the class discussion activity.
 Insert a table on Microsoft word identifying indefinite pronouns.

Procedure:
Students are asked to:
 Create a blank page.
 Go to insert – table.
 Select 3 rows and 2 columns.
 Individually, label each box as singular, plural, and singular and plural.
 Type the pronoun that belongs to its group.

Materials needed:
 Book
 Laptops or iPad
 White-board projector

Warm-up (5 min):
 Call students to sit in pairs.
 Ask refreshing questions about the topic.
 Introduce the topic.

Procedure:
 Explain the topic – subject-verb agreement- in details.
 Identify the rules and tips that should be followed.
 Identify exceptional rules.
 Discuss special problems in subject-verb agreement.
  Discuss the most common problem area in subject-verb agreement.
 Explain indefinite pronouns
 Explain auxiliary verbs and model verbs.
 Discuss uncountable and group nouns
 Identify the rule of compound subjects
 Students are assigned to use nearpod.com

21st century skills:

 Collaboration (Introduction and procedure): students working in pairs.
 Flexibility (procedure): students should be able to learn lots of rules.

Guided practice:
 Using a projector, display the It's Grammar Time: Subject-Verb Agreement 1
worksheet and review the example.

 Read the first sentence aloud and underline the subject— empowerment. (Tip:
Cover the other sentences with a sheet of paper so that only the one you are
working on is visible.)

 Explain, "We know that empowerment is singular because there is not an 's' at
the end."

 Tell students that since there is not an 's' at the end of plane, the coordinating
singular verb will have an 's'.

 Circle the word includes and remind students that this is the verb that agrees
with the singular subject empowerment.

 Write the correct verb on the line and read the completed sentence aloud.

 Repeat by guiding students through sentence number two as a model.

 Complete five more examples with the class, inviting student volunteers to
choose the correct verb and explain their reasoning.

 Have students discuss and complete the remaining sentences with an elbow
partner, writing their answers in a notebook or on a sheet of scratch paper.

 After the worksheet is completed, explain that the 's' rule is an easy guideline to
help us with subject-verb agreement. Tell students that even tricky words,
like everyone, will generally stick to this rule. Even though the
word everyone refers to more than one person, it is considered a singular
subject because it doesn't have an 's' at the end.
  Write an example on the board using the word everyone (i.e. Everyone
encourages women empowerment.) Underline the subject and circle the verb.
 Point out that this example follows the rule because the subject doesn't end with
's', and the verb does.

Assessment:

 Instruct students to join in gimkit.com.

 Insert the given code to join the game.
 All students should take the quiz.

Expected answers:

 Students might use plural verbs in collective nouns. Eg: the class encourage
instead of encourages women empowerment.
 Confused model verbs. Eg: women’s empowerment must allows instead of allow
women to make life- determining decisions.
 Indefinite pronoun problems. Eg: some of the girls discourages women
empowerment.

Closure and reteaching:

 Ask students to think about what would happen if the subject and verb didn't
agree.
 Give some examples of incorrect sentences (e.g. empowerment are raising the
status of women.)
 Explain that subject-verb agreement is important because without it a sentence
can be confusing. To communicate clearly in English, we must follow
grammatical rules like this one.
 Have students think about other grammatical rules they know that help them
communicate clearly (e.g. verb tense).