Activity summary

Students will enhance their vocabulary by practising using verbs that are unfamiliar to them. They will do this by working in teams to suggest synonyms for 'boring' verbs.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

know that there are many great verbs that can be used to enhance their writing.

Success criteria:

Students can...

demonstrate their knowledge of verbs
work collaboratively to come up with interesting verbs.

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This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

creativity
collaboration
communication
social skills

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 9 English:

Analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone (AC9E9LA08)

Year 10 English:

Use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing academic texts (AC9E10LA08)

Relevant parts of Year 9 English achievement standards: Students analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual references, and multimodal features.

Relevant parts of Year 10 English achievement standards: Students analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual connections, and multimodal features, and their contribution to the aesthetic qualities of texts.

NSW Syllabus outcomes: EN2-1A

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy

List of ‘boring’ verbs (e.g. 16 Boring Verbs And What To Use Instead)
Whiteboard and pens.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - explain the task, read out the boring verbs and oversee the team responses.

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.

Meaningful Moments: Verb Generation in Teams

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