SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT

SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT

Here's another activity that I've done in school for a single period lesson. This is an interesting yet quite challenging activity for some of your students. At the same time you are doing this, you can check your students' listening skills.

STEPS

1. Prepare a music video or a song (preferably a music video) before class and play it to you students first before you start your lesson. this would get them interested and relaxed for your lesson. [For this activity I used the music video of the song 'Trouble is a Friend' by Lenka (video and worksheet is available on the side)]

2. After the first play, maybe you should as students if they heard the song, if they have, you may want to use another song for the activity (if necessary). Provide students with the worksheets containing the lyrics of the songs with the verbs taken out.

3. Tell students to be listen to the song again and this time they are required to fill in the blanks with the correct form of verb as sung by the singer.

4. Play the song again, twice if necessary (thrice if you are desperate).

5. Once your students are done, it is time to start checking the answers.

6. Discuss the answers. You might want to focus the discussion on the presence of the 'personal singular -s' on certain verbs and how to use it.

7. As a follow-up activity, students are to write what they can understand about the song in 10 points with one sentence for each point (poiny form). The aim is to see their understanding of subject verb agreement in their sentence construction.

EXTRA

> Music videos can provide a little bit more challage to students as they may steer students focus away from the lyrics.

> The same activity can be done with a recitation of poems or using synopsis of thier novel or shortstodies (intergrating literature into the lesson).