PoS Swap
PoS Swap is an activity to practice different parts of speech. It requires little or no preparation and can be used any time there's a slight uncertainty amongst the students of a particular PoS.
Write up on the board a sentence structure which includes the PoS you want to practice. For example, suppose you wanted to practice adjectives and adverbs and make sure the students understand the difference, you could write up:
Then undereneath write an example:
You might want to highlight the adjective and adverb and then go over them with your class. Now, simply choose a student at random, give them the eraser and ask them to come up to board and replace the adjective.
Then another. And then another.
And then move on to the adverbs and have several students have a go with that.
And then you can start to play with the sentence. Quickly choose different students in the class and call out to them for a new adverb or adjective. Get faster and faster and so they barely have time to think before answering.
Then get them up two at a time to change the words. And then get even faster.
You can try:
- changing the sentence
- adding or removing other PoS
- keeping checks that the same word isn't used twice
- turning it into a team game
