Examples - what do you notice? Can you put the words into sentences?

watch              watched               watching

skip                  skipped                skipping

chat                 chatted                chatting

smile               smiled                    smiling

listen              listened                 listening

hop                  hopped                  hopping

grin                 grinned                 grinning

stamp              stamped                stamping

hug                  hugged                 hugging

carry               carried                  carrying

LC: Explain the meaning of unfamiliar words by using the context.

Can we spot the verbs in this part of The Green Children story?

Clac straightened his back, braced his aching shoulders, and grunted. Sweat trickled down his face and dripped from the end of his nose.  He licked his lips. They tasted of salt. Clac glanced down the long, straight swaths of corn, then, rubbing the back of his neck between his shoulder blades, he considered the position of the sun.  But his stomach was his best clock.  He filled his lungs, cupped a huge hand to his mouth, and bellowed “FOOD!”

Now let's explore the meaning of the verbs we're not sure about.

The other cottars heard him.  One by one they stopped work and mopped their brows. One by one they left their own strips of land and began to walk slowly towards him. Their scythes gleamed in the midday sun and a very small wind moved over the swaths and whispered warnings to the ears of uncut corn.

“Come on,” called Clac.  He sat on the turf balk dividing his strip from the next, waiting impatiently.  “ This sun… I’ve had enough of it.” “So have I,” groaned Grim.  He slumped against the balk. “And so have I,” sighed Swein, collapsing in a heap like a sack of potatoes. Suddenly, a movement caught Clack's attention. “Come on,” cried Clac, “you and you and all the rest of you.”

Panting heavily, the others followed him. “Look!” insisted Clac, pointing again.“Look!” And there, huddling in the hollow of the largest pit, the cottars saw what Clac had seen: two green children. Their skin was green, their hair was green, they wore green clothes.  And one was a boy, the other was a girl.