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I can identify the difference between a doing and a being verb.

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Key learning points

Verbs are doing and being words.
Being verbs are \"is\", \"are\", \"was\" and \"were\".
Verbs can be in different tenses.
A being verb can be the only verb in a complete sentence.

Common misconception

Pupils may struggle to recognise 'being' verbs in sentences.

Identify being verbs by showing them in their simplest form, then eliminating the nouns and adjectives from the same sentence.

Keywords

Tense - tells the reader when something happens
Present - happening now
Past - happened before now

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Hello, I'm Miss Corbert and welcome to the Grammar Lesson, Verbs: Doing and Being Verbs.

I love learning all about verbs because once I understand them, it means I can talk about and write about characters going on adventures in my writing.

Let's get started.

Today's lesson outcome is I can identify the difference between a doing and a being verb.

For this lesson, we will need your looking eyes, those listening ears and that thinking brain.

It would be great if you could have somebody to talk to as well.

Let's get started.

Here are our key words for our lesson.

We know that our key words help us get to our learning outcome.

Remember, don't worry if you don't know what all of these words mean, but some of them might be familiar.

My turn, your turn.

Verb.

We learned that a verb is a doing or a being word.

Tense.

Hmm.

Present.

We'll learn about that soon.

Past.

Well done.

Let's go a little bit quicker.

Verb.

Tense.

Present.

Past.

Well done.

We are going to get started on the first part of our lesson, which is talking about doing verbs.

We know that a verb is a doing or a being word.

My turn, your turn.

A verb is a doing or a being word.

Well done.

Doing verbs are words that show actions or things that we or something does.

Are you ready for some? Run.

Your turn.

Eat.

Walk.

Jump.

Sing.

Play.

Well done for joining in with me there.

These are all examples of doing verbs.

They're all things that we can do.

We learned that a full sentence must contain a verb and it has to agree with the noun to make sense.

Let's see if we can find the verb in the following sentences.

Are you ready? We walk to the shops.

What is the doing word? Walk.

Well done.

Let's try the next one.

I play in the sunny park.

Where is the verb? Can you tell me? 3, 2, 1, play.

Well done.

Playing is something that we do.

The hungry lion prowls the land.

3, 2, 1.

A bit more difficult, but prowls is the way the lion is moving, so something that the lion is doing.

Prowling the land looking for food.

Nan talks to the little baby.

What is Nan doing? 3, 2, 1.

Talks.

Talks is our verb.

Fantastic.

And finally, the children jump on the mat.

Where is the verb? 3, 2, 1.

Jump.

Well done.

Jump is something that the children are doing.

Fantastic verb spotting everybody.

Let's see if you can have a go on your own.

Can you point to, get your pointing finger ready, the doing verb? Is it bag, carry or red? What is the doing verb, bag carry or red? I'm going to give you five seconds.

Five.

Well done if you got carry.

Carry is something that we do.

I carry the bag.

I carry the box.

I carry the baby.

Bag is a noun.

It's the name of something and red is an adjective, it's describing something.

It might be describing the red bag or the red balloon.

Well done.

Carry is the doing verb.

In English, we can speak or write in the past or present tense.

There are key words, I told you they would come up.

The present tense tells us the action is happening now.

Do you remember in the key words I said present? That means it's happening now.

It doesn't mean a present that you open.

The present tense tells us that we are doing something now.

The verb in the sentence is the word that does the job of telling us which tense we are in.

For example, we walk to the shops.

Walk and the way it's written there shows me it's happening now.

We walk to the shops.

Now, we walk to the shops.

I play in the sunny park.

Now, I play in the sunny park.

The hungry lion prowls the land.

It is happening now.

He's prowling as we speak.

The hungry lion prowls the land.

So these sentences are all in the present tense.

Present tense.

Well done, because we know they are happening now.

The past tense tells us it's already happened.

If it's in the past, it's already happened.

Past tense, well done.

Notice how the verb has changed to show us that.

Remember, it's the verbs job to tell us which tense we are in.

We walked to the shops.

(gasp) It's already happened.

Yesterday, we walked to the shops.

I played in the sunny park.

I played in the sunny park, maybe last week, maybe last year, maybe earlier in the day, but it has already happened.

It is in the past.

The hungry lion prowled the land.

That lion has done the prowling already.

He has prowled or she has prowled the land.

These sentences are all in the past tense.

They have already happened.

They contain past tense doing verbs because they've already happened before.

Now walked, played, prowled, they've already happened.

Let's see if we can match the tense to the correct definition.

I have present tense and past tense.

See if you can remember our actions to help you.

You are going to match them to either, which is the action has happened before now or the action is happening now.

Pause the video and decide which one is the present and which is the past.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

Let's see if you got it.

The present tense is the action happening now and the past tense is the action that has already happened before.

Well done.

These sentences contain past tense doing verbs, which means they've already happened.

Let's see if we can spot the verb in these sentences.

Nan talked to the little boy.

What did Nan do? Talked.

The children jumped on the mat.

What did the children do? Jumped.

Well done.

They danced at the party.

What did they do? Danced.

Well done.

A mouse moved under the rug.

(gasping) What did the mouse do? Moved.

Fantastic.

Temi smiled at her friend.

What did Temi do? She smiled.

Well done.

What do you notice about the ending of these verbs, talked, jumped, danced, moved, smiled? Hmm? Could you pause the video and tell the person nearby what do you notice about the end of these verbs? Pause the video.

Well done If you manage to spot that all of those verbs end in the letters ED, ED.

Most often our verbs to show that in the past tense end in ED, our doing words often end in ED.

Not always, but most of the time our doing verbs end in ED.

Talked, jumped, danced, moved and smiled.

And when you are reading them, you have to get used to knowing what sound that ED is making.

Amazing spot everybody.

You are now going to go on to your first task being doing verb detectives.

You are going to have a go at circling the verb in the sentence.

These are all doing words, actions that we do.

I'm going to read the sentences and then you are going to have a go on your own.

I jumped into a puddle.

Maya played with the toy cars.

A bird chirped from the tree.

Dad baked a tasty cake.

The people cheered loudly.

So the first thing you are going to do is spot the doing verb.

Then you going to decide which tense they are written in.

These sentences are all written in the _ tense.

Is it the past or the present? Pause the video and off you go.

Fantastic verb spotting everybody.

Let's see how you got on.

I jumped into the puddle.

The doing verb is jumped.

Maya played with the toy cars.

What did Maya do? Played.

Played is the doing verb.

A bird chirped from the tree.

What did the bird do? Chirped.

Chirped is the doing verb.

Dad baked a tasty cake.

Baked is the doing verb.

That's what dad did.

The people cheered loudly.

Cheered is my verb because the people cheered.

Fantastic.

And I wonder, did you realise what tense they were written in? These sentences are all written in the past tense.

They have already happened.

I know they have already happened because my doing verb is telling me.

ED is at the end of all of those verbs, which tells me they have already happened.

Fantastic work everybody.

Well done.

Now we're going to move on to our second part of the lesson, being verbs.

We know that a verb is a doing or a being word.

My turn, your turn.

A verb is a doing or a being word.

Well done.

Sometimes though, the verb in a sentence can be tricky to spot, but we are doing a great job at being verb detectives, so I think we can do it together.

Let's have a look at this example.

Max is happy.

We know that this sentence makes sense on its own with no more information needed and we can hear it makes sense, but where is the verb? Hmm.

Let's look at what we already know about this sentence to see if that can help us find it.

Max is happy.

Where is the noun, the naming word? Point to it for me.

Max.

Max is the noun and it's a proper noun as somebody's name.

Where is the adjective? Max is happy.

Can you point to the adjective? Happy.

Happy is describing Max and we know that an adjective likes to describe nouns.

We can hear that this sentence makes sense.

Max is happy.

But we also know that a full sentence must contain a verb.

(gasping) The word that is left is is.

Is is a special type of verb, a being verb.

Being verb.

We know that a verb is a doing or a being word and is comes from the verb to be.

Being verb.

Wow.

We found it.

I knew we could do it.

Let's try another one.

The dog is wet.

Hmm.

Where is the noun? Point to the noun for me.

Well done, dog.

Dog is the noun.

Where is the adjective to describe the noun? Wet.

Well done.

Wet is the adjective.

We know that a full sentence must contain a verb and often the being verb is in the middle of the noun and the adjective.

The dog _ wet.

Where is it? Is, is is our being verb and a being word can be the only verb in a complete sentence as long as it makes sense.

Let's check, true or false? Thumbs up, thumbs down.

A being verb can be the only verb in the sentence.

True or false? True.

Well done.

As long as it makes sense, the being verb can be the only one.

You don't need a doing verb as well as long as you have a verb.

Well done.

Let's have a look at another one.

The children are friendly.

That makes sense.

Where is the noun? Point to the noun.

Children.

Children is the noun.

Where is the adjective? Friendly, describing the children.

Friendly is the adjective.

And remember the being verb is often between the noun, children, and the adjective, friendly.

The children _ friendly.

So where is the verb? The verb is are.

Hmm.

We've had is, I didn't know are was a being a verb as well.

That's because children is plural.

We know that plural means more than one.

It wouldn't make sense to say the children is friendly.

So we say the children are friendly.

So are is often used after a plural noun, but are is another being word.

A being verb, sorry.

Not just a being word, a being verb.

Let's see if you can spot the two being verbs.

Remember a verb is a doing or a being word.

We are just looking now for the being verbs.

Are we ready? We have dance, is, are, and skip.

Could you find the two being verbs in 10 seconds? 10.

Five.

Well done.

Let's see if you spotted them.

The being verbs are is and are.

Dance and skip are verbs, but they are doing verbs because they are actions that we do.

Is and are are our being verbs.

Fantastic.

In English, we know that we can speak or write in the past or present tense.

Show me past tense, present tense.

Well done.

The present tense tells us the action is happening now.

The verb in the sentence does that job to tell us which tense we are in.

Max is happy.

The dog is wet.

The children are friendly.

These sentences are all in the present tense because they are happening now.

Right now, Max is happy.

(gasping) It must be raining because the dog is wet.

The children are friendly, right now.

They are in the present tense.

The past tense tells us that the action has already happened.

The being verb has to change to the past tense.

Let's have another look at the sentences.

Max is happy.

So in the present tense, he is happy.

We want to explain that that's already happened.

That feeling of happiness has already happened.

Max was happy.

My turn, your turn.

Max was happy.

So was is another doing verb, but in the past tense.

The dog is wet.

(gasping) The dog isn't wet anymore.

I want it to be in the past tense.

The dog _ wet.

The dog was wet.

Well done.

The children are friendly.

I want to explain that that's already happened.

We've already known that the children have been friendly.

The children was friendly.

That doesn't sound right.

Oh, because children is plural, we need the children were friendly.

The children were friendly.

Well done.

So was and were are more examples of being verbs.

They're just in the past tense because they've happened before now.

Fantastic.

True or false? A being verb stays the same in the past and present tense.

Do those examples stay the same or were they different? Is that true or false? I'll give you five seconds.

Well done if you said false, we had to change the being verbs to show that they have already happened.

Is to was and are to were.

Now you are going to be ready for your task.

You are going to be word detectives, but you are searching for the being verb in each of these sentences.

Remember these being verbs can be a bit trickier to spot.

Let's have a look at the sentences.

The sand is hot.

Alicia is upset.

The children are noisy.

The people are tired.

The sun is bright.

You are going to search and either circle or point to the being verb.

Remember, what you could always use is your knowledge of other word types, looking for the nouns and the adjectives and seeing what's left.

Remember, our being verb likes to be in between the noun and the adjective.

Can you pause the video now and off you go.

Well done.

I could see you working really hard to spot those being verbs in your sentence.

Let's see how you got on.

The sand is hot.

The being verb is is.

Well done.

Sand is the noun, hot is the adjective and we are saying that the sand is hot, so that is the being verb.

Alicia is upset.

There's our being verb again.

The children are noisy.

Are is the being verb this time because children is plural.

So we had to change is to are.

The people are tired.

Again, people is plural so are is needed as the being verb.

The sun is bright.

Where's my being verb? Is.

(gasping) Oh my goodness.

Did you manage to spot all of those? If you did, well done.

If you didn't, don't worry, we're all learning.

Maybe you could go and check now.

Fantastic.

We have had another amazing lesson of learning together.

We have learned so much.

We already knew that a verb is a doing or a being word, but now we've got some examples of being words.

The verb in a sentence helps us to know whether it's written in the past tense or the present tense.

So the verb is doing a very important job.

Being verbs can be harder to identify than doing words, but you managed to do it fantastically.

Some of the being verbs that we've looked at today are is and are in the present tense and was and were in the past tense.

Thank you so much for learning with me again, and I will see you next time.

Bye.

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