﻿Hello, and welcome back to grammar, this is lesson two, subject verb agreement with me, Mr. Halpin. Hope you're ready. Let's go. Before we begin, you're going to need a pen, some paper, and to engage your brain. Please pause the video if you need to go and collect any of that equipment. All sorted? Fantastic, let's begin. Today, we're going to recap lesson number one, we're going to look at the verb to be, we're going to move on to identifying the subject of sentences, you're going to have a turn at writing, then hopefully you're going to complete your quiz. Ready? Good. So, to recap from lesson one. What is a verb? Pause the screen if you need to to read these options. Option one, a verb is a word that tells us who the sentence is about. Option two, a word that tells us the main action someone did. Option three, a verb is a word that describes something in the sentence. Or, option four, a verb is a word that tells us when something happened. You can touch your screen if you like, or shout your answer out loud. On the count of three, one, two, three! Option two, fantastic, well done those of you that shouted that out loudly, brilliant. A verb is a word that tells us the main action that someone did. Try and keep that in your mind, remember that rule. A verb, a word that tells us the main action someone did. Okay? Verb, a word that tells us the main action someone did. Words like watched, talked, listened. Have a quick look around your room right now. Can you spot any verbs? Excellent work. We're going to focus now on the verb to be. The words like was and were are verbs, even if they do not look like verbs. They are the verb to be. The verb to be doesn't look like other verbs, and we need to be very careful with it. Not all verbs look like actions. The verb to be can be more difficult to identify. All of these following sentences use the verb to be. I was hungry. You were kind to me. It was a sunny day. So a verb, a word that tells us the main action someone did, doesn't always necessarily look like an action, so we need to be careful. Words like was, were, to be are still verbs, they're still actions taking place in a sentence. Your turn now. The verb is a word that tells us the main action someone did. Which of these words are verbs? We, were, wrong. Get ready to point or scream out loud at your screen. One, two, three, were! Superb if you got that right, well done. Now, over to you. I would like you to underline the verb in each of these sentences. We're going to work through a couple first, then I'm going to ask you to write them down at home. Let's have a look at these sentences. A, Sam was upset this morning. B, Serena and I were just over there. C, were you sad on Friday? D, the cloud was grey. And if we're looking at underlining the verb, Sam was upset this morning. Okay, over to you now, I'd like you to pause your video, write out the sentences, B, C, and D, and underline the verb in each of these sentences. Pause your video now. How did you get on? Let's have a look. Underline the verb in each of these sentences. B, Serena and I were just over there. C, were you sad on Friday? D, the cloud was grey. Let's have a look at our answers. Wonderful work if you've underlined the following verbs. Superb. Moving on to the next part of our lesson now, and that's identifying the subject, and I have a new rule for you here. The subject is the person or thing doing the main action. It can be more than one word. So we've looked at the main action, the doing word, and that's our verb. Now we're looking for the person or thing doing that action. Identifying the subject. You've already looked at how to identify a verb in the sentence. Another important part of the sentence is the subject, and I've used two different colours here to really highlight these really important parts of a sentence. A, Simon ate a strawberry. B, Hardeep wore a hat. C, I took the puppy to the park. And if you identify the verb first, if you can find the action, you guys have been brilliant at finding verbs so far, if we can find the action, it makes it really easy for us to find who or what, the subject, is doing the action. So here you can see Simon ate a strawberry. The verb, the action taking place, the thing being done is ate. Who or what ate the strawberry? Simon. Fantastic. So if the subject is the person or thing doing the main action, the verb, remembering it can be more than one word, what do you think the subject of this sentence is? The sun shone brightly. One, two, three, the sun! The sun, well done if you went with the sun. Shone being our verb, the sun shone brightly, the sun here, our subject, okay? Shone as our verb. Over to you, your turn now, can you identify the subject in these sentences? Let's read them aloud first. A, Harriet talked on the phone. B, the cat stretched. C, we went to the park. D, Clive called you. And if we think about identifying the verb first, it makes it really simple to identify the subject. So in sentence A, talked. Remember the past tense ED ending we spoke about last time. Talked, who or what talked on the phone? Harriet, Harriet talked on the phone. Remember the subject is the person or thing doing the main action. I'd like you to pause your video now, write down the sentences B, C, and D, and see if you can identify the subject. Pause your video now. All done? Great. How did you find that? Let's check our answers. The cat stretched. Stretched here is our verb, our action taking place. Who or what stretched? The cat, well done if you got that correct. We went to the park. Went is our verb, therefore we is our subject. Clive called you. Called is our verb, so Clive is our subject. Fantastic work, well done. Now we move on to our writing task, your turn to do some writing. In these lessons, you will be writing mini stories based on a picture. I'll show you the picture in a moment. We will keep these short at first, so you can concentrate on getting everything right. I want your writing to be perfect. And each time you write, you'll be aiming to complete some writing checks. Here are the writing checks for lesson two. Try and keep them in your mind as you are writing. Check number one, I have written in full sentences. Check number two, I have written the correct verb for each person. And check number three, I've written my capital letters correctly. Okay? In your writing, you need to make sure that your stories are realistic and believable. And one way you can do this is by telling what you know happened. So what do you think happened in this picture here? Pause your video and just take 30 seconds to really look at this image. Pause your video now. All done? Excellent. Maybe you can answer these questions now then. Who is in this picture? And what happened? What do we think? These are some words you should be using in your writing. Karen, John, and Verity. You can quite clearly see these three people named in this image. What are they doing? What verbs spring to mind? What actions can you see? Words like watched, played, maybe moved might be helpful to use in your writing. Remember I said your writing needs to tell what happened. Do these sentences below, tell what happened in this picture? Verity hated Karen. A dinosaur took the ball. No, they don't. These sentences do not tell what happened. Okay, your turn now. I'm going to ask you to pause your video so that you can write your mini story based on this lesson's picture. Resume your video once you are done. All finished? Superb, excellent work. Now let's have a look at some sentences that you might have used in your writing. Looking at the picture, identify the subject, the who, identify the verb, the what, and you may have ended up with some sentences like these. Verity and John blank tennis. Think about what verb you might wish to write there. John blank towards the ball. Karen blank the match. Think about the actions that are taking place, the verbs. Verity and John played tennis. John moved towards the ball. Karen watched the match. And also paying very close attention to the capital letters being used for specific people. Fantastic work if your writing looks like this. Very well done. Now, have you met all of your writing checks? Check number one, I have written in full sentences. Capital V the start of a sentence, full stop at the end? Superb, well done. Check number two, I've used the correct verbs for each person in my sentences. Verity and John played tennis. John moved towards the ball. Karen watched the match. Fantastic use of verbs, well done. Check number three, I've used capital letters correctly. We're remembering that we use capital letters when naming specific people or places. Capital letters, for words like Verity, John and Karen. Superb if you have got all three checks. Spot on, very well done. And that brings us to the end of session number two. Absolutely thrilled with the hard work that you've done again today, very well done. Now, just to check your learning, please remember to go and complete the quiz. And if you would like to, because I'm sure you are all producing fantastic work, please ask your parent and carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak. Thank you again for being superstars. Well done, and I'll see you next time. Bye bye!

This lesson introduces the verb 'to be' and the subject of a sentence.

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