LET'S LEARN ENGLISH: LET'S PR@CTICE ENGLISH P@RTS OF SPEECH @ND H@VE FUN!

Welcome to this blog, which you will be using to practice the parts of speech of English.

You will practice by reading a text to have knowledge of the topic and to find out what you retained from the text, you will answer a questionnaire ; which you will send to my e-mail after you have answered it.

E-mail: briseida.estrada@uabc.edu.mx

You will also interact with your classmates with the activity from image 1(list)

and image 2 (story), that you will print, fill out using the instructions below and post, once you are finished.

Activity instructions:

In this activity you will ask your classmate for the parts of speech corresponding to the topic "CONTEST". Then you will fill out the sheet that has the fill in the blanks, in the same order of the first sheet; when you are done post the second sheet with the story.

Tip: don't read the text to your classmate before fill in it out. Just ask for the words in the order the first page asks and at the end read the story, it will be more fun!
***DUE DATE ***to e-mail questionnaire and post story: Wednesday, 26, Feb.,2015

TEXT: parts of speech

You can find this text in the book “The TKT Teaching Knowledge Test Course”.

We can identify grammatical forms in parts of speech, grammatical structures and words that contain prefixes and suffixes. A part of speech or word class describes how words behave in sentences, how they operate and combine grammatically with other words.

There are nine parts of speech in English: nouns, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions and exclamations.

The table below shows the parts of speech, examples, and the functions.

Part of speech	examples	Function(s)
Nouns	Children sugar	To name people, places, things, qualities, ideas, or activities to act as the subject/object of the verb.
Verbs	See Run Take off	To show an action, state or experience.
Adjectives	Easy big	To describe or give more information about a noun, pronoun, or part of a sentence.
Adverbs	Completely Yesterday At the end	To say more about how, when, where, etc. something happens by adding information to adjectives, verbs, other adverbs or sentences.
Determiners	Me The This both	To make clear which noun it is referred to.
Prepositions	After at	To show the relationship between a noun, noun phrase or pronoun and another word or phrase.
Pronouns	She Mine myself	To replace or refer to a noun or noun phrase mentioned earlier or about to be mentioned.
Conjunctions	As And but	To join words, sentences or parts of sentences.
Exclamations	Huh ow	To show a (strong) feeling especially in informal spoken language.