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Activity 1 Mad Libs

Hudson Day
Fall, 2015
Objective The student will participate in two Mad Libs activities.
Instructions
1. Choose a partner. (Classmate, friend, sibling, child, etc)
2. Complete one Mad-Lib activity, playing the role of the writer.
3. Complete the other Mad-Lib activity, providing the entries.
4. Write both names on the activity sheet
Extra Credit
Find and complete other Mad Lib stories
Write and complete your own Mad Lib story.
You may be able to get extra points for prizes/activities.
Have a lot of fun!!!

Sunday, October 18th


5 points

Grammar Review- For those who do not know what a noun is.
Nouns

A noun is a word that names a person, a place, or a thing.


A noun that names only one person, place, or thing is called a singular noun.
A noun that names more than one person, a place, or a thing is called a plural noun.
Person

Place

Thing

dentists (plural)

New York (singular) pears (plural)

sister (singular)

zoo (singular)

fan (singular)

Julio (singular)

towns (plural)

notebook (singular)

children (plural) beaches (plural)

buses (plural)

Adjectives
An adjective is a word that describes a noun. An adjective can tell what kind or how many.
What Kind

How Many

We have a large dog.

Our dog has five puppies.

Our dog has tiny, brown spots. Many dogs love children.
Verbs

A verb is a word that can show action.


A present tense verb shows action that is happening now.
A past tense verb shows action that has already happened.
A future tense verb shows action that will happen.
Present Tense
Bats hunt at night.

Past Tense

Future Tense

The bats hunted last night. The bats will hunt tonight.

The bats fly quickly. The bats flew overhead.

The bats will fly later.

Adverbs
An adverb is a word that describes a verb.
An adverb can tell how, when, or where.
How

When

I read books quickly.

Where

I read books often.

I keep my books upstairs.

I read newspapers slowly. I always read the newspaper. I buy my newspaper there.
Exclamations
An exclamation can be a word, a phrase, or a sentence that shows strong feeling.
It is followed by an exclamation point.
Word
Wow!

Phrase
Oh, no!

Sentence
What a terrific song!

Yippee! No way! We won the championship!

Mother Goose Rhymes


Old Mother Hubbard went to the ___________
(noun)

To get her ___________ ___________a bone.


(adjective)

(noun)

When she got there, the ___________ was ___________


(noun)

(adjective)

And so her ___________ dog had none.


(adjective)

Jack and Jill went up the ___________


(noun)

To fetch a/an ___________ of ___________.


(a container)

(a liquid)

Jack fell down and broke his ___________,


(noun)

And Jill came tumbling after.

There was a/an ___________ woman


(adjective)

Who ___________ in a shoe.


(verb-past tense)

She had so many ___________,


(plural noun)

She didnt know what to do.

Copernicus
Four hundred years ago people knew little about our
___________ universe. They thought that the Earth was the
(adjective)

center of the entire ___________ and that the sun and all of the
(noun)

___________ revolved around it. But then a/an ___________


(plural noun)

(nationality)

named Copernicus discovered the truth: the earth revolves


around the ___________ ___________ times a year.
(something round)

(a number)

Copernicus, whose last name was ___________, was born


(a last name)

in Warsaw, and he used one of the first ___________


(adjective)

telescopes, which was invented by ___________. This primitive


(person in room)

telescopes was little more than two pieces of ___________


(food)

stuck on each end of a/an ___________. In 1600, an Italian


(noun)

___________ named Galileo expanded Copernicus___________


(occupation)

(adjective)

theories, but during the Inquisition in Italy he was ___________


(adverb)

arrested. After ___________ for six months in jail, Galileo was


(verb ending in -ing)

forced to ___________.
(verb)

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