Teaching Resource
Commonly Used Verbs - Flashcards
A set of 42 flashcards depicting commonly used verbs.
Use this teaching resource in the classroom when developing everyday vocabulary and when learning about verbs.
A great resource to use with new arrival students and those with special educational needs.
Print and cut a class set of flashcards. Show one card at a time to the students and ask them to call out the verb then act it out. Alternatively, choose a flashcard from the pile and ask the students to put it into a sentence.
The verbs in this resource include:
wash, talk, sit, walk, pull, pick, follow, drink, ask, run, jump, brush, pack, wave, build, colour, climb, cut, eat, give, look, paint, sing, push, play, turn, catch, stand, sleep, close, draw, fold, open, go, point, read, work, kick, write, throw, smile, smell.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN1-9B
Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
- EN2-9B
Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA179
Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
- VCELA216
Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and include common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives
- VCELY258
Analyse how different texts use verb groups to represent different processes (action, thinking, feeling, saying, relating)
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1452
Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)Elaborationstalking about effective words that d...
- ACELA1468
Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectivesElaborationsexploring ...
- ACELA1482
Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tenseElaborationsidentifying different types of verbs and the way they add meaning to a ...

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