Activities

Some activities that you can do with your students are:

1. Have your students find an article from their favorite magazine and locate all the adverbs.
2. Watch a cartoon with the student and have them write adverbs describing the action that is taking place. then, write all the different combinations on the board. This way the students will realize all the possibilities of different adverbs modifying the same verbs.
3. Give students a list of verbs that can be easily be modified by an adverb. Have them write a paragraph using as many verbs from the list as possible each time attaching an adverb of their choice.

4. Schoolhouse Rock - Grammar Rock

   Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Adverbs Here

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   Music & Lyrics: Bob Dorough
   Sung by: Bob Dorough
   Animation: Phil Kimmelman and Associates
   
   Hmmmmm... hmmmmm... hmmmmm!!!
   
   {Ready pop?}
   {Yep.}
   {Ready son?}
   {Mmm hmm!}
   {Let's go.}
   {Let's go!}
   {One, two...}
   
   Lolly Lolly Lolly, get your adverbs here!
   Lolly Lolly Lolly, got some adverbs here!
   Come on down to Lolly's, get the adverbs here!
   You're going to need
   If you write or read
   Or even think about it.
   
   Lolly Lolly Lolly, get your adverbs here!
   Got a lot of Lolly, jolly adverbs here!
   Anything you need
   And we can make it absolutely clear!
   
   An adverb is a word...   {That's all it is, and there's a lot of 'em!}
   That modifies a verb...  {Sometimes a verb!  Sometimes...}
   It modifies an adjective,
   Or else another adverb.
   And so you see that it's positively, very, very, necessary.
   
   Lolly Lolly Lolly, get your adverbs here!
   Father, son and Lolly selling adverbs here!
   Got a lot of adverbs and we make it clear,
   So come to Lolly!
   
   {Hello, folks.  This is Lolly Senior, saying we have every adverb in
    the book, so come on down and look!}
   {Hello, folks.  Lolly Junior here.  Suppose your house needs painting.
    How are you going to paint it?  That's where the adverb comes in.
    We can also give you a special intensifier so you can paint it very
    neatly or rather sloppily.}
   {Hi.  Suppose you're going nut-gathering. Your buddy wants to know
    where and when.  Use an adverb and tell him.)
   
   Get your adverb...
   
   Use it with an adjective, it says much more.
   Anything described can be described some more.
   Anything you'd ever need is in the store,
   And so you choose very carefully
   Every word you use.
   
   Use it with a verb it tells us how you did.
   Where it happened, where you're going, where you've been.
   Use it with another adverb at the end, and even more...
   How, where, or when, condition or reason...
   These questions are answered
   When you use an adverb...
   
   {Come and get it!}
   
   Lolly Lolly Lolly, get your adverbs here!
   Quickly quickly quickly, get your adverbs here!
   Slowly surely really, learn your adverbs here!
   You're going need 'em
   If you read 'em,
   If you write or talk or think about it.
   
   Lolly...
   
   }} {If it's an adverb we have it at Lolly's!
   }}  Bring along your old adjectives too, like slow, soft and sure.
   }}  We'll fit them out with our "l-y" attachment,
   }}  And make perfectly good adverbs out of them!}
   
   Get your adverbs here!
   }} {Lots of good tricks at Lolly's, so come on down!}
   Lolly, Lolly, Lolly!
   }} {Adverbs deal with manner, place, time...}
   Lolly, Lolly, Lolly!
   }} {Condition, reason...}
   Father Son and Lolly!
   }} {Comparison, contrast...}
   Lolly, Lolly, Lolly!
   }} {Enrich your language with adverbs!}
   Lolly, Lolly, Lolly!
   {Besides, they're absolutely free!}
   Lolly, Lolly, Lolly!
   }} {At your service!}
   Indubitably!
   

    

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