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First Names Which Are Also Verbs In English

First Names Which Are Also Verbs In English

First Names Which Are Also Verbs In English

There are lots of English first names which are the same – or sound the same – as verbs, like Mark (mark some tests), Rob (rob a house), and Carrie (carry somebody or something). The aim of this lesson is for students to learn two sets of vocabulary – common English first names and unusual verbs – and to learn the connections between them.


Who’s Doing What? – Picture Quiz 1

Who’s Doing What? - Picture Quiz 1

Who’s Doing What? – Picture Quiz 1


Who’s Doing What? – Picture Quiz 2

Who’s Doing What? - Picture Quiz 2

Who’s Doing What? – Picture Quiz 2


Instructions:

First, try one or both of the picture quizzes – Who’s Doing What? 1 & 2 (above) – following the given instructions. Answers will vary. Make the quizzes more difficult by not supplying the names. Then continue with one or more of the extensions below.

There are two sets of 20 first names. These extensions can be done with either or both sets of names:

1. Check everybody knows the target vocabulary: first names and verbs. T (teacher) or a student says a name and a tense, e.g. “Bob” and “Present Continuous”. SS (students) write in notebooks / on the board, or call out a sentence: “Bob is bobbing in the water.” SS could try to make longer sentences by adding conjunctions, such as: and, but, because, so, or, etc. For example, T or a student says a name, tense, and conjunction, then the others make a sentence, e.g. “Mark”, “Past Continuous”, and “because”: “Mark was marking some tests, because his students needed the results”. Next, somebody says a name and a conditional, e.g. “Bob” and “Zero Conditional” and others make a sentence, e.g. “If Bob bobs in the water for too long, his skin gets wrinkly” – and so on.

2. Build sentences with continuous tenses and ‘while’, e.g.

Past Continuous:    Ty was tying his shoelaces, while Pat was patting her puppy.

Future Continuous:    Bob will be bobbing in the water tomorrow, while Mark will be marking.

3. T or a student says a riddle and the others in the group or class have to guess what is happening, e.g.

Riddle:                                   Something is heavy for her.                    Carry carries.

Riddle:                                   She would like the best outcome.           Hope hopes.

…and so on.

4. SS could improvise / write / record a film, dialogue, presentation, role play, song, sketch, etc. based on one or more of the situations they have produced. For example, you could imagine that all the people live in the same apartment block and their lives interweave. Maybe Bet is Hope’s mother and Hope is hoping that her mum will stop gambling, because… and so on.

5. SS speculate about the people, based on the verbs that their first names share, e.g. Mark is marking, so he is a teacher, while Russell is an older man who is relaxing reading the paper, so maybe he is retired, or he has just finished his shift driving an HGV lorry. What is Win winning? What does it mean to her? What is Stew stewing about? Why is he so upset and angry?

6. Improvise a quiz based on the information in either or both of the grids below. For example, SS work in teams with one runner in each team and T asks: “Whose full name is Terry?” (“Tel”) It could get progressively harder, as the options narrow, e.g.

Whose name is a homophone?                                                           e.g. Moe

Whose name is a homophone and a regular verb?                         e.g. Phil

Whose name is a homophone and a regular intransitive verb?    e.g. Neil

…and so on.

The teams confer, then the runners run to write the answer on the board. Whoever is first to write it correctly wins a point. Runners could change after every few questions, to allow each student to write.

7. Another option is to get the SS to research and fill in a blank version of the grid, with part or all of the information missing.

8. SS create discussion questions or agree / disagree statements based on the pictures, e.g.

Discussion question:               Have you ever won a competition or contest? What happened?

Agree or disagree statement:  I don’t like people joshing with me. [SS say whether they agree or disagree and why]

9. Make your own names/verbs picture quiz based on people that you know, e.g. your classmates.

10. Devise your own activity or project using first names which are also verbs.


Answers:

First Names / Verbs - Set 1 - Answers

First Names / Verbs – Set 1 – Answers

First Names / Verbs - Set 2 - Answers

First Names / Verbs – Set 2 – Answers


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FREE Printables: Adverbs of Time: Already, Yet, Still, Any More

FREE Printables: Adverbs of Time: Already, Yet, Still, Any More

Adverbs of Time: Already, Yet, Still, Any More - Table

Adverbs of Time: Already, Yet, Still, Any More – Table

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