Correct word order has a significant role in teaching a foreign language. Many learners automatically order the words in a sentence as in their native language. However, since different languages have various sentence structures, ESL teachers should be very attentive in dealing with this topic. Despite its difficulty, it can be taught in fun and entertaining ways to primary school children. Here we present activities that will definitely come in handy to practise word order with your kids.
Rainbow sentences
One of the fascinating ways of practising word order with kids is definitely with Rainbow order. Distribute the mixed parts of the sentence to your students and ask them to put the words in the correct order according to rainbow colours (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). To make it more fun, you can also play the rainbow song. Children really enjoy doing this activity.
Question cards
Use question cards to introduce the rules of word order to your students, such as Who/what, what happens, where, when, etc. Provide with an example (Bob goes to school every day.) and get your students to put the mixed words in the correct order.
Expanding the phrase
Write a word on the board. Ask your students to take in turns and add extra words to make it into a longer and longer sentence. It must be a logically coherent sentence. Students cannot remove words, but they can change the order while adding new words. My kids really enjoy this activity, especially when I ask them to use their imagination and expand the phrase in a funny way.
Cat
- A black cat
- A big black cat
- Tom saw a big black cat
- Tom saw a big black cat in the forest
- Tom saw a big black cat in the forest last night
Removing words from a sentence
This activity is considered to be the opposite of the previous one. Here you provide your students with a long sentence and ask them to take turns and to remove words so that it always remains a sentence.
- Kate doesn’t like cartoons because they are loud, so she doesn’t watch them.
- Kate doesn’t like cartoons because they are loud, so she doesn’t watch.
- Kate doesn’t like cartoons because they are loud.
- Kate doesn’t like cartoons.
Brainstorming sentences
Ask your students to work in pairs or in groups. Choose a topic that the students are familiar with (weather, animals, food, jobs, etc) and get them to make up as many correct and long sentences as possible.
Example: Animals
Group A: Crocodiles are very dangerous animals.
Group B: Many people are afraid of spiders and not mice.
Group A: It is very difficult to survive crocodile’s attack because they attack very quickly.
Group B: Last summer, when we were staying in a forest, we suddenly saw a wolf near our tents.
Gringle
This is a guessing game. Choose a player, who will think of a verb his/her classmates must guess what verb this student is thinking of. The verb is replaced by a nonsense word such as “gringle”. The students then ask questions, like this:
— Can you gringle at night?
— Who gringles more — girls or boys
— Do you use a special object to gringle?
— When do you usually gringle?
— Is gringling a fun or a serious action?
Why do people gringle?This game is a magnificent tool for practising word order in interrogative sentences with your kids. With the help of numerous questions, they revise different types of questions, such as General and Special ones.
This was the list of the activities that I usually use with my kids to practise word order. I am sure you are aware of some other fascinating ways as well. Share them in the comments below.
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read / books/ I / at home / often
I often read books at home
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she / the guitar/ every evening / plays
She plays the guitar every evening.
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in the morning / we / walk/ like to / in the forest
We like to walk in the forest in the morning.
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at home / is / now / Sherry
Sherry is at home now.
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in the park / they / are sitting / on the bench
They are sitting on a bench in the park.
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after school / Jack and Tim / meet / sometimes
Jack and Tim sometimes meet after school
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the boys / over there / inside the museum / are running
The boys are running over there inside the museum.
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quite well / can / he / swim
He can swim quite well.
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songs / Victoria / usually / sings / in the bathroom
Victoria usually sings in the bathroom.
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his students / to / Pat / English / speaks
Pat speaks English to his students.
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you / do / clean / always / your teeth / in the morning ?
Do you always clean your teeth in the morning?
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now / the questions/ we / answering / aren´t
We aren´t answering the questions now.
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really hard / raining / it/ is / now ?
Is it raining really hard now?
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the teacher/ collects / the homework/ every morning
The teacher collects the homework every morning.
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the girl / helping / housework / with / mother / her / isn´t
The girl isn´t helping her mother with the housework.
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never / at night / my cat / in my bed / sleeps
My cat never sleeps in my bed at night.
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homework / Frank / at the moment / checking / is / Tim’s
Frank is checking Tim´s homework at the moment.
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must / you / the / shopping / after school / do
You must do the shopping after school.
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sometimes / home / in the evening / work / does / Ben / at ?
Does Ben sometimes work at home in the evenings?
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go / every / to the club / the girls / Saturday / don´t
The girls don´t go to the club every Saturday.
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your father / be / will / this evening / you / at home / think / do
Do you think your father will be home this evening?
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don´t / your friends / why / like / at the weekend / play tennis ?
Why don´t your friends like to play tennis at the weekend?
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SVOMPT rule is one of the most important rules in English. If students learn to follow this rule, their English will improve dramatically, and they will be understood. Once a student knows some words and follows the SVOMPT rule, we can say that he/she can speak English.
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I love Darren Crown’s explanation of the origin of the SVOMPT word order. In his humorous book “Angličtina na rovinu” he writes that English was first used by a primitive tribe whose members did not want to use their brain too much and thus they created a word order which is always the same – Subject, Verb, Object, adverbs of Manner, adverbs of Place and adverbs of Time. So let´s stop looking for some complicated explanations and let´s think like the primitive barbarians and stick with the SVOMPT word order.
SVOMPT – mind map
The path shows the way an affirmative English sentence is created. You start with a Subject at the top and then you go down and add the words according to the SVOMPT rule.
SVOMPT – games and quizzes
At the moment you feel you understand the grammar it is time to put your knowledge into practice. First, to be able to follow the rule you have to know what part of speech a given word is. You must know whether it is a Subject, Verb, Object, adverb of Manner, adverb of Place or adverb of Time to place the word into the correct place in an English sentence. To help you with this, you can try the following quiz where your task is to tell what part of speech a given word is. If you pass the test, you can play the game Angry finches.
If you want to play the quiz on the full screen, click on the button below.
SVOMPT – what is this word
In the second quiz your task is to put the sentence into the correct order. If you pass this quiz, you can improve your vocabulary in the game called Word Boggle.
If you want to play the quiz on the full screen, click on the button below.
SVOMPT – Arrange the sentence
Both games and quizzes are in HTML5 so they should play on all mobile devices.
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