Lesson 2 Vocabulary, Spelling, and Simple Grammar

Lesson 2 Vocabulary, Spelling and Simple Grammar

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session, participants will be able to

• recall about twenty simple words and their meanings
• Be able to spell at least some of these words
• Be able to spell their name

Lesson

Now that we have learned the alphabet, we shall learn to spell some simple words. We shall start with

• one letter words
• then, two letter words
• and finally as many three letter words as we can think of

One Letter words

1. a

any others?

Two letter words

1. be
2. at
3. it
4. is
5. on
6. am

:

:any more?

Can we get to ten?

Three letter words

1. bat
2. bus
3. are
4. ball
5. cat
6. dog
7. hat
8. mat
9. fat
10. ink
11. rat
12. pat
13. sat
14. ink
15. kid
16. 
    

Can't we get to 20?

Exercise: Produce a single page with graphical illustrations of ten of the above words and their associated mkeanings.

Spelling

Let us learn to spell all the words in the wbove list

Vocabulary 

Do we know the meaning of all the words in the above list?

Simple sentences

A sentence is a set of words that is complete in itself. It has meaning. For instance, we can say...

The cat sat on the mat.

That is a "complicated" sentence. What does it mean?

Gramatically, a setnec consists of a noun phrase, a verb and an object phrase. Are there any two word sentences?

We can think of:

I am

Can you think of any others?

Exercise: Let's make as many simple sentences as we can from the words in the list.

Four Letter Words

There are many common four letter words such as 

• four
• this
• five

Make a list of twenty common four letter words with their meanings.

Make ten sentences from these words