Today's lesson was an important one as I focused on the teaching of grammar to all of you. Based on the learning needs of my P6 class last year, grammar was one big area in which pupils tend to neglect and be weak in. As such, you need to know the basics of grammar. Grammar form a huge part of sentence structure and how you go about writing a complete and correct sentence form. This in turn affects your writing of composition, situational writing and comprehension answering.
Recapping on the main points:
- Verbs are action words such as run, jump, walk, talk, ask, is, are, was, were. Verbs can be classified further into past tense, present tense, singular, plural, past perfect and continuous.
- Nouns are names of objects such as people, places, animals, just to name a few. Words like Peter, Orchard Road, Holy Innocents' Primary School, Noodles are all nouns.
- Adverbs describe more about the verbs. Words like sadly, quickly, angrily, tiredly are adverbs. They are often used after the verbs. e.g Tom walked (verb) quickly (adverb) to the store. The word 'quickly' describes the manner of how tom walked.
- Adjectives are describing words. They usually describe the nouns. Words like pretty, fierce, hardworking, greedy are all adjectives. e.g Peter is a greedy (adjective) boy (noun). He likes the tasty (adjective) apples (noun).
- Pronouns can be used to replace nouns. Pronouns include words like 'He, she, they, their, his, her, my, yours, it, its'.
This is an important part of learning English and you have to remember these grammar structures. You will find me using them to teach you grammar rules when we venture into doing grammar practices and your synthesis and transformation.
No homework for today. A little short break for you but do bring your newspaper article book and journal book tomorrow.
Sincerely,
Mr Nelson Ong
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