Idea for teaching adverbs of manner (Primary 3)

An idea for teaching of adverbs of manner. The theme is 'Amazing Animals'.

You will have to teach children what is adverbs before they are able to do the activity below.

Using the clip 'einstein the parrot' from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnTT7u5U4Yo, get children to take down the list of animals that the parrot mimicked.

List of animals that the parrot mimicked:
1. wolf
2. bird
3. owl
4. rooster
5. penguin
6. chimpanzee
7. pig
8. tiger
9. skunk

After the children have gotten the list of animals, get them to describe how Einstein the parrot mimicked each of the animals. For example: Einstein mimicked the owl and hooted happily.

After the children have completed the listing the adverbs of manner for each of the animals mimicked, get them to describe Einstein's performance using adverbs of manner. Example: Einstein performed proudly to the audience.

You may wish to write up a template worksheet for children to work on. After the children have completed the list of adverbs of manner, get them to present and pick out the adverbs of manner that you think are good and worth learning. Write the adverbs of manner on coloured paper and paste on the noticeboard for children to learn and use in their composition.

This idea came to me while I was surfing the net for some ideas for teaching for a friend. I find these two websites rather useful for teaching of adverbs of manner:

http://www.learnenglish.de/Games/Adverbs/Adverbs.htm

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/adverbmanner.htm


Hope this helps :)

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