English / Level 3 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas
Content description
Understand that verbs represent different processes (doing, thinking, saying, and relating) and that these processes are anchored in time through tense
Elaborations
identifying different types of verbs and the way they add meaning to a sentence
exploring action and saying verbs in narrative texts to show how they give information about what characters do and say
exploring the use of sensing verbs and how they allow readers to know what characters think and feel
exploring the use of relating verbs in constructing definitions and descriptions
learning how time is represented through the tense of a verb and other structural, language and visual features