SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE

NAME: CLASS: 5 JAYA TEACHER: MS NURUL SYAZA BINTI AHMAD

STRATEGIES
LOOK AT THE PICTURE What is the occasion? (A party) Where is it? (A park) LOOK AT THE WORDS Do you know them? If not, do not use them. CIRCLE THE SUBJECTS Name them. (A prefect) WRITE THE VERBS What are they doing? (is reading)

ADD ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS (A smart looking prefect) (is reading deligently) FORM COMPOUND SENTENCES (use AND, BUT, WHILE, BECAUSE) VARY THE SENTENCES

LOCATION
Park School area (classroom, hall, school canteen, computer lab, library) House area (living room, kitchen, dining room, bedroom) House (House yard, house compound, terrace house, wooden house) Market Supermarket Bazaar Shop (bakery, grocery, pet shop) Beach Jungle river side road side Seaside Camp area Shopping mall Aboriginal settlements Waterfall Bus stop Field Orchard Farm Badminton court Village Town Restaurant Pool Neighborhood Paddy field Clinic Airport Overhead bridge Cinema Roti canai stall

Occasion
A birthday party A Teachers Day celebration A badminton match A story telling competition A Hari Raya celebration A gotong-royong A Prize Giving Day An extra-curricular activity

Subjects (collective)
A class of students A group of friends A gathering of friends A crowd of spectators A throng of people A queue of people A band of musicians A choir of singers

Subject (nouns)
A family (one of the family members, the father, the mother) A lass, a girl A lad, a boy A pupil A man A woman, a lady A seller A buyer, a customer A pedestrian An onlooker A public citizen A baby A (occupation: teacher, worker, butcher, fishmonger, librarian, cashier, a hawker)

Verbs
Walking, running Holding Sitting Chatting Listening Buying Selling Serving Trying on Showing Choosing Looking at Watching Admiring Throwing away Picking up Trimming Eating Writing Reading Playing Jogging Catching Queuing up Having fun Cleaning, washing Cooking, cutting Pushing Partying Scolding

Adjectives
Before the noun

After the noun

Cute, beautiful, handsome Fat, thin Young, old Hardworking Enthusiastic Strict Kind, caring

Who is wearing a (hat, cap, sari, baju kurung, hijab, t-shirt, pinafore, swimsuit, an apron) Who is wearing a pair of (shorts, trousers, spectacles) With a (short hair, long hair, wavy hair, spiky hair)

Adverb
Happily, joyfully, jubilantly Sadly, gloomily, miserably Excitedly, eagerly, enthusiastically Angrily, furiously Calmly Quietly Softly, gently Kindly, caringly