Great performance  

Aim:

• Silently act out a variety of verbs and adverbs.

Materials Needed [shopmaterials]

• a stack of cards labeled with verbs (sample list provided)
• a stack of cards labeled with adverbs (sample list provided)

Lesson Plan

Before the Lesson 
Create two sets of cards; each set should be on a different colored paper. Make at least one card per student in each color. Index cards or paper cut to 3 x 5 inches works well.

• Create a set of verb cards on cards of one color, at least one verb card per student. (See a sample verb list at the bottom of this section.)
• Create a set of adverb cards on cards of another color. (See a sample adverb list at the bottom of this section.)
• Stack the verb cards upside down in one pile; stack the adverb cards in another pile.

The Lesson 
This game can be played as a whole class or with the class divided into teams. One at a time, have each student come up to the front of the class and draw a card from the stack of verb cards. Then the student must act out, or "pantomime," the word on the card.

The other students call out the word the student is acting out. The first person to call out the correct verb earns 1 point.

Then the same student who pantomimed the verb chooses and then acts out the word on his or her adverb card. The student must act it out as it relates to the verb that was just pantomimed.

As the student pantomimes his or her verb/adverb combination, others call out guesses for the adverb. When somebody guesses the correct adverb, that person earns 2 points.

Use this activity to instruct students about the role of adverbs: Adverbs modify or limit the action (verb) that is taking place in a sentence; adverbs provide more specific information about how that action is being carried out. For example, eating is an action everyone can visualize. But the action of eating can be carried out in many different ways. Eating swiftly creates a very different visual image than the image you get of someone eating thoughtfully or noisily or greedily each of those adverbs modifies the verb eating in a different way.

Source: Lysanne Kamies