What is the subject of this sentence? 'The girl and her father held hands.'

What is the verb in this sentence? 'The cat and the dog fought.'

What is the subject of this sentence? 'Two pretty birds sat on a branch.'

Which of these words should have a capital letter?

What is the subject of this sentence? 'You looked at Jimmy.'

What is the verb in this sentence? 'We went to the beach.'

Capital letters and irregular verbs

﻿Hello, welcome to lesson four of unit 23. Your grammar unit. Today's lesson is called singular and plural subjects with me, Mr. Halpin. Hope you're okay, ready to go. Before we begin, I need you to make sure that you have, pen, some paper and your brain is switched on. Please pause the video, if you need to collect any of your equipment now. Resume your video when you're ready. So, today's lesson, we are going to recap some previously taught ideas. I'm going to introduce you to singular and plural subjects, then we're going to have a look at telling what happened, in the past tense. Then you are going to write some amazing work, and then you're going to ace your quiz. Sound good? Let's begin. Recap, when must you use a capital letter? You can pause the video, read the options yourself, or listen to me, read them for you. Option one, a capital letter must be used on a word that names a specific person. Option two, a capital letter must be used on a word that names a specific place. Option three, a capital letter must be used on a word that starts a new sentence. Option four, a capital letter must be used on a word that does not name a specific person or place. You can touch the screen or shout out your answers. On the count of three, one, two, three. Option one, two or three. Little bit cheeky of me there, but hopefully you manage to pick out all three options there. Well done if you did, superb. Irregular verbs. Hopefully you remember that some verbs cannot be changed from what happens to what happened, simply by adding our -ed ending. Our -ed suffix. Words like brought, drank and gave. Which of these words, is an irregular verb? Option one, answered. Option two, boiled. Option three, compared. Or option four, did. The count of three, one, two, three. Did. Superb. Well done. Singular and plural subjects. A new rule for you to remember now. A singular subject involves one person or thing. A plural subject, involves more than one person or thing. I like to remember this rule, single pringle, one, singular. Plural, more than one. So remember, a singular subject involves one person or thing. A plural subject involves more than one person or thing. Have a table here, that hopefully helps to explain a little bit. Singular subjects on the left, plural subjects on the right. Singular, one, plural, more than one. Singular subjects, subjects like I, her friend, an ape. Plural subjects, more than one. Subjects like we, her friends, lots of apes. Singular subject involves one person or thing, a plural subject involves more than one person or thing. Your turn now. Which of these subjects are plural? Me, I, or they? In the count of three, you can touch your screen or shout out loud your chosen response. One, two, three, they! Fantastic. They being more than one, plural. Me and I, singular, just one. So a singular subject involves one person or thing. A plural subject involves more than one person or thing. I have three sentences here. We're going to work through them together to try and figure out if the subject is singular, just one, or plural, more than one. I like apples. What do you think? Singular or plural? I, just one, or more than one? Number two, the two old men laughed. Our subject here, the two old men. Singular one, the two old men, more than one. Number three, many people like television. Singular or plural? Many people, more than one. Sentence number one, I, singular subject. Sentence number two, plural, two old men. Sentence number three, also plural, many people. Okay, your turn now. I want you to pause the video, copy out this table, if you would like, or just write the sentences in a list and figure out if the subject is singular or plural. Pause your video now, and resume once you are done. How did that go? Let's have a look at the answers then. Sentence number four, the dog yawned. How many dogs? One, or more than one? Sentence number five, David and Kev were friends. David and Kev, one or more? Sentence number six, my brother is annoying. How many brothers? One brother, or more brothers? Singular or plural? Your table or your list should look like this. Well done, if your work looks like that. Superb work on singular and plural subjects. The dog, one dog, yawned. David and Kev. David and Kev, more than one, plural. And my brother is annoying. One brother, singular subject. Excellent work. Telling what happened. Hopefully you can remember this rule about writing in the past tense. Something that's already taken place. Past tense, an action that has already happened. Which of these is a past tense action? A past tense verb. Climb, shouted, or catch. In the count of three, one, two, three, shouted! Shouted, well done. And we can remember our -ed suffix to tell what happened.

ed on the end of our verb, often suggests that is in the past tense. Well done. Your turn now. I would like you to write out these sentences and underline the verbs. We're going to do these three together. Then I have some more for you to try on your own. Sentence number one, Sally gave Faith a gift. Faith thanked her. Sentence number two, we kept the heating on and wore socks at night. Sentence number three, Tom told Anna a lie. Anna believed him. Pause the video, and see if you can just spot the verbs in these sentences. 30 seconds. Resume your video once you're ready. Found them all? Wonderful. Did you find all of these? Excellent work if you did. Sally gave Faith a gift. Faith thanked her. The verbs in these sentences, gave and thanked. Number two, we kept the heating on and wore socks at night. Number three, Tom told Anna a lie. Anna believed him. The verbs here told and believed. Your turn now. I'd like you to write out these sentences, and underline the verbs. Pause your video and resume once you are ready. All finished? Wonderful. Let's check your work. Did you underline these words? Sentence number four, Savannah and Angelo fell over. What action is taking place? Fell, our verb, fell. Angelo broke his ankle. Sentence number five. The noisy dog barked all night. My family became very angry. Our verbs, barked and became. And sentence number six, I used your pen. I drew this picture for you. Our verbs, used, and drew. Well done if you've got those answers correct. I have a challenge for you now. On those same sentences you've already written, can you underline the subjects of the sentence? Let's have a look at number four. Savannah and Angelo fell over. Angelo broke his ankle. Remember, if we identify the verb, we can then identify the subject. The verb being the action, what has happened, and the subject being the person or thing, doing the action. So who fell over? Savannah and Angelo. Who broke his ankle? Angelo. Have a little look at number five and number six. Pause your video, see if you can underline the subjects. Resume your video when you are ready. How was that challenge? Got it all right? Let's have a look. Number five, the noisy dog barked all night. My family became very angry. Number six, I used your pen. I drew this picture for you. Well done if you met that challenge. Super effort. Okay. Your turn now. You're going to do some incredible writing. In these lessons, you'll be writing mini stories based on a picture. Today's lesson, slightly different though, because we're looking to write a whole paragraph. Means you're going to be doing more writing, but I have complete belief in you. You still need to make sure you are accurate and achieve your writing checks. Your writing checks for lesson four, are on the screen. Now, check number one. I have written what happened throughout. Check number two, I have put a capital letter on specific names and places. Check number three, I have not put a capital letter on any other words. Focusing on writing, check number one. You need to make sure that your stories are realistic and believable. You can do this by telling what you know happened by writing in the past tense. Past tense, something that has already happened. Here's your first picture for today's lesson. Just pause the video for 30 seconds, have a look at the subject, who, and the verbs, what. Resume your video when you're ready. Okay. Who and what? Well done if you came up with these ideas. The subject for this image, is Annie. And what actions is Annie doing? Well, we can have a look here on her desk. We have scissors, tape, wrapping paper and a gift. Annie bought a gift, Annie sat at her desk. Next image. Pause your video again, give yourself some thinking time. Who, and what. Subject, and verbs. Resume your video when you are ready. Who and what. Well again, we have Annie. Annie is still the subject of this image. What verbs, what actions can we see? Cut, wrapped, and tied are words that you might want to use in your writing. And the final picture for you to look at today. Who, and what. Subject, and verbs. Pause your video and have a think. Resume when you are ready. Who and what. Annie has now been joined by Dan. And we can think about Annie held a gift, or Annie gave Dan a gift. Dan took the gift. Perhaps words that you might think about using in your writing. Here is the whole sequence together. Pause your video, and have a look at all three pictures together. Think about the subjects and the verbs that you'll be writing. Resume your video when you're ready. Excellent. Subjects, Annie and Dan. Verbs, cut, bought, held, tied, gave, and many more. Okay. Today, I'm looking for you to write a paragraph. And in order to help you, I'm going to give you the first two sentences. It was Dan's birthday. Annie, blank, him a gift. I would like you to start your writing with these two sentences. It was Dan's birthday. Annie, blank, him a gift. Pause your video now, and write your paragraph. Resume the video when you are ready. All done? Fantastic. I'm sure that your paragraph is incredible. Let's have a look at mine. It was Dan's birthday. Annie bought him a gift. She sat at her desk with the gift and some wrapping paper. She used the scissors to cut the paper to the right size. She wrapped the paper around the gift. She tied a ribbon around it. She gave Dan the gift. He was delighted. Does your writing sound similar to mine? Well done. Let's have a look at our writing checks. Check number one, I have written what happened throughout. You can see here. I have past tense, verbs, was, bought, sat, used, wrapped, tied, gave, was. Check number two. I've used capital letters, specific names, and places. Words like Dan, and Annie, have capital letters. Check number three, I've not used capital letters on any other words. If your writing looks like this, and you've met all of those writing checks, give yourself a huge high five. Well done. Excellent work again, superb. Now, please remember to complete your quiz, continue showing off all your awesome work. And if you would like to share your work Oak National, please ask your parent or carer, to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak. That's all from me for today, see you again soon, bye, bye.

Exit quiz - lesson 4 Singular and plural subjects

Which sentence is correct?

Which of these subjects is plural?

Which word needs a capital letter?

Which of these subjects is singular?

Singular and plural subjects

In this lesson, we will introduce the concept of singular and plural subjects. We will then apply that knowledge in a piece of creative writing.

English

Y7 English

Key Stage 3

Year 7

Y8 English

Year 8

Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs

Lesson overview:Singular and plural subjects

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Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs: