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  Types of verb – Action and stative

Collapse To begin with, we’ll look at action and stative verbs. These are two of the more straightforward types of verb, and
can be relatively simple to explain to students.
Module 2: Words and
punctuation Action verbs

 Words and punctuation

Action verbs are used to describe actions and movements. They’re also known as ‘dynamic verbs’, and are often the
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first ones people think of.

 Types of word -
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Examples include:

 Types of word -
Speak, play, work, eat, go.
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 Types of word - Nouns,

When introducing action verbs to beginners it can help to start off simply, beginning with teaching a few basic
verbs, adjectives
actions. Such lessons can be livened up with dances or games such as Simon says.

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As students get comfortable with using basic action verbs, there are some key points that you can start to
Pronouns, adverbs,
introduce to them.
prepositions

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Teaching notes:
Conjunctions,
interjections, &
Negative sentences which use action verbs are usually constructed with “don’t” or “do not” followed by
determiners
the action verb. For example – “Don’t go”, “Do not speak to him”.

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When using the third person (‘he’, ‘she’ or ‘it’) an ‘s’ sound is added to the end of the word, so “I
Grouping different word
play” but “He plays”. For words with a consonant sound, the written form takes a simple ‘s‘ at the end.
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However, verbs with a vowel sound can become more difficult – for example “go” becomes “goes”.

 Types of word - Recap

Types of word - Quiz Once students are confident with using action verbs in the present tense, for example “eat”, you can then show
 how to use these verbs with other tenses – such as “ate, eaten”. If you’re not familiar with all of the tenses yet,
Types of verb - don’t worry – we’ll cover them in the next module.
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Stative verbs
 Types of verb - Action
and stative These verbs describe a state instead of an action – they’re often associated with verbs covering thinking, feeling,
sensing or owning.
 Types of verb -
Transitive, intransitive,
auxiliary, modal Examples include:

 Types of verb - Phrasal, Like, hate, want, see, hear, believe, imagine, remember and appreciate.
regular and irregular

 Types of verb - Recap
 Types of verb - Quiz
 Affixes - Introduction
Many verbs can be action or stative depending on how they’re used; “He looks sick” and “She smells nice” are stative
while “He looks at the clock frequently” and “She smells the flowers” are action verbs.
One thing to ensure students know, is that stative verbs are rarely used in continuous tenses. For example, “I am
hating”, “He is wanting”, or “They are believing”, are common mistakes among students.

 Affixes - Rules of use

When it comes to teaching stative verbs, it can be useful to choose activities based around students’ likes, dislikes,
or opinions. For example, asking students about their hobbies, and how they feel about them.
 Affixes - Teaching affixes

 Punctuation - COMPLETE LESSON

Introduction

 Punctuation - Periods,  Back to: 120-hour TEFL/TESOL course > Module 2: Words and punctuation
commas and colons

 Punctuation -
Apostrophes, question,
exclamation and
quotation marks

 Punctuation - Hyphens,
dashes, brackets and
slashes

 Punctuation - Recap

 Affixes & punctuation -

Quiz

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