Varying Your Verbs

WALT: use powerful verbs Yellow / Blue

Write down a more interesting word instead of went in each sentence:

1. Mary…………………………………..to the post office, hoping she’d be in time

to get a ticket.

2. Becky……………………………………around the shops after her gran, wishing

she wasn’t there.

3. Hayley…………………………………………………to the museum in her new car.

Change the verb said to a more interesting verb each time:

1. “The hills are alive with the sound of music.”…………………………….. Bob.

2. “Get out of my sight, you ungrateful, horrible woman.”……………………..

Ryan.

3. “I think we should be quiet; no one else is talking in here.”…………………

Margaret

Now write 3 of your own sentences

WALT: use powerful verbs Yellow / Blue

Write down a more interesting word instead of went in each sentence:

1. Mary…………………………………..to the post office, hoping she’d be in time

to get a ticket.

2. Becky……………………………………around the shops after her gran, wishing

she wasn’t there.

3. Hayley…………………………………………………to the museum in her new car.

Change the verb said to a more interesting verb each time:

1. “The hills are alive with the sound of music.”…………………………….. Bob.

2. “Get out of my sight, you ungrateful, horrible woman.”……………………..

Ryan.

3. “I think we should be quiet; no one else is talking in here.”…………………

Margaret

Now write 3 of your own sentences

WALT: use powerful verbs Red/ Orange

What verbs could you use to replace the verb in bold?

Could you add other features that we have been working on such as connectives and adjectives?

Write the new sentence in your book.

1. The wind went through his iron fingers.

2. His great iron head slowly went to the left.

3. His eyes, like headlamps, went white, then went red.

4. He moved in the strong wind that went against his back.

5. One of the Iron Man’s hands moved its fingers, like a crab on its back.

6. The stars went on moving through the sky.

7. The wind went on blowing at the grass on the cliff-top.

8. The sea went on moving and moving.