Easy Grammar with Hamsters, or Welcome to GrammArea!
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Autumn…
Leaves are falling down,
Waves are coming from the sea.
A marsh-mallow in my tea
Yummy as can be.
Sand brings joy to me.
Pay attention to the first letters of each line. Who wants to help?
Sally has got a bag of words-seeds which she wants to plant into the magic pots.
Here you can see a bag of seeds:
And let’s have a closer look at the pots below.
So, we’ve got two pots. The seeds themselves are magic too – they can talk! In other words, they are Speaking. And we’ve got one pot for Speaking seeds (S-pot) and the other one is for Easy Speaking seeds (ES-pot). The seeds are so funny, especially Easy Speaking ones! One kind of them buzzes a lot. They go buZZ-buZZ all the day. Another kind of seeds goes CHoo-CHoo or even CHatter-CHatter all day long. Still another one goes hiSS-hiSS. There is a kind that always says Oh! to this chattering. There is also a kind that tries to silence them all and says SHuSH! And when all is silent finally, another one says: eXcellent! So, we end up with something like the following chat:
buZZ-buZZ!
CHoo-CHoo!
hiSS-hiSS!
Oh!
SHuSH!…
eXcellent!
Note! Only with He, She and It: if a word ends in – X, -SS, -CH, -SH, -O or –ZZ, we should add – ES in Present Simple: wash-washes. So, we say: He always washes the dishes. We add – s to all the other verbs: plant – plants. So we say: She always plants the flowers.
Can you now plant a few seeds? Which do you like best? First, please find those word-seeds (in the bag of seeds) which you put in the ES-pot! Then use all the word-seeds to tell us about your Magic friend in the following way: My Magic Friend (his name here) always rises with the Sun. He always smiles at me sweetly and hopes to have a great day with me… and so on! Great!
Hammy starts planting all the seeds from the bag and makes up a poem. It’s about him and his wife, whom he misses a lot. Let’s read it together, find all the word-seeds which tell us about what Hammy and Hammsy do:
A poem about Hammy and Hammsy
He eats his big breakfast and misses his wife.
He searches his room and thinks of his life.
She hopes to see Hammy and goes now to work.
She teaches 10 hamsters and strokes her pet dog.
He does his gymnastics and stops for a while,
He plans all his meetings – puts notes in a pile.
She swims in the ocean, but she loves big lakes,
Agrees with her mother and a cheesecake she bakes.
The Sun rises quickly – it dances around,
It smiles at all hamsters and makes Hammy proud!
Marvelous! Sally is happy! Thank you!
Wonderful butterflies (“y” in verbs in 3rd person singular)
Who is here? It’s two friendly butterflies! Do the butterflies usually eat fish and chips or drink Coca-Cola?
They want several new dresses from the petals of the flower below. Can you help them?
Note! With He, She, It: If a verb ends in –y, there are two ways:
– change – y for –ies (worry– worries) – a consonant + y = a consonant + ies
– just add –s to the verb (play – plays) – a vowel + y = a vowel + y + s
It depends on the letter that goes before “y”. Pay attention to it, my friend.
Now tell Sally what butterfly gets a deny dress?
You’re right, the first one! And the dress will change: deny – she denies. Now you try to help the butterflies.
Wonderful! The butterflies are happy now! Thank you!
Zoo! To understand the rule above better, let’s read a poem about Homya. Find all the things Homya does.
Meet Homya Homich from the Zoo
At the Zoo there lives a hamster,
Homya Homich is his name.
And he’s got his friends around –
All of them are in the tale.
Guard Nickiforich is here –
He is not exactly friend.
Homya sees him – cries and worries –
So, this guard is hard to stand.
Homya stays with guard Petrovich –
Always pleasure he displays.
Hurries to Petrovich’s house,
Where he just enjoys and plays.