
The Lion and the Mouse - October 02, 2023
Lesson Collection #3 - Lesson 2
In this pair work lesson, students try to anticipate the verbs in an Aesop's Fable. Students have only half of the verbs written on their worksheets; they'll need to work closely with their partners to acquire the missing verbs.
Also built into this lesson is a point system, the better students are at anticipating the missing verbs, the higher their scores will be.
Not only is this lesson an excellent review of verbs and verb tenses, but it also has students working with ordinal numbers, from first to seventy-seventh!
There is a similar worksheet available:
The King Who Loved Stories (See Lesson Collection Set #5 - Lesson 20).
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