Verb to Adverb Act
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Speaking and listening Beginner - Intermediate Any |
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Objective
Verb to Adverb Act is an activity that requires learners to act out in pantomime a verb and an adverb choosen by another team.
Instructions
1. Before begining this activity, it's often helpful to have a list of adverbs that beginner level students can use to help them describe actions. Divide the board into two columns and using "Verbs List " as the heading for the left-hand side column, and "Adverbs List" for the right-hand side column. Eelicit as many words as you can.
Here is an example:
| Verbs List admire, alert, annoy, appear, attempt, behave, boil, brake, buzz, carry, carve, cheat, clear, coil, communicate, contain, deliver, drag, encourage, fancy, fool, grease, hunt, injure, jam, knit, mess up, murder, occur, paste, prevent, ran, retire, sin, spoil, tickle, wail, zoom |
Adjective List almost, blindly, boldly, carefully, daily, eventually, far, frantically, gently, innocently, lazily, mysteriously, painfully, poorly, regularly, rudely, smoothly, solemnly, speedily, successfully, thoughtfully, truthfully, violently, wearily, wildly, yearly |
You can elicit the help of the class by asking how they can modify a sentence such as "I ran home?." Students must then pick an adverb such as "frantically" to add to the sentence: "I ran frantically home."
2. Next divide the class into two teams, and ask team A to radomly choose a verb and an adverb. Team B must now act out the combination of words, for example "communicate poorly". Repeat this process a number of times.