D-03.01 Put Simple Present Base Verbs into Statements & Questions

Parts One to Three of Chapter 4 (Simple Present Statements & Questions: “Food & Money”) of WorkLife English Life Skills, Workbook 1 9 pages Who It’s For: (Teachers & Helpers of) Beginning Language Learners       Why It’s Useful: The simple form of verbs (without added endings) forms the core of  Statements with all sentence subjects except the Third-Person Singular (he, she, it). The “helping verbs” don’t and do are needed in Negative Statements & Questions.  Here’s a straightforward introduction to this grammar. What You’ll Do:  [1] With participants, pantomime and read aloud the Strip Story “We Don’t Need Any Meat” on page 49. It contains five frames that illustrate the grammatical patterns of simple-present statements.  [2] With the Grammar-Pattern Box, identify sentence elements: Subjects, Verbs (Negative Marker), Noun Objects. To do so, you might say directives that begin with base verbs like “Point to . . . ” or “Tell . . . .” (Have everyone) Notice sentenc