Give students a set of cards containing adjectives and nouns. Ask students to pair two cards together and draw the adjective and noun as one picture, either individually or in groups. Instruct students to present their drawings to the class, and let other students guess the adjective and noun portrayed in the picture. Students will learn how to identify nouns and adjectives through creative drawings and picture association.
Provide students with a basic overview of past, present and future tenses. Give a team of students a card and ask them to read their card out to the class; the class will try to explain which tense the card is in and identify the other tenses for the card (i.e., if a students reads "I will play" the other students will state the present tense, "I play" and the past tense, "I played.").
For classrooms that use an interactive whiteboard, online grammar games can be used to actively involve students in their own learning (see Resource 1). Ask students to approach the interactive whiteboard and answer the questions presented on the screen; this activity can also be adapted for classrooms that do not have an interactive whiteboard by writing questions on paper and asking students to circle the different word classes (parts of speech) in the sentence: noun, adjective or verb.
Give students a word to use in a "word association" class game. Each student will shout a word associated with the previous word (i.e., "sun" would be associated with "heat"). Turns would proceed around the room until the teacher shouts out a word class (noun, verb, etc.). Students will still shout out an associated word, but it must be the word class the teacher has specified (i.e., if the previous word was "snow" and the teacher shouts "adjective," the student could shout "cold"). Both students and teacher must think actively about choosing their words, as the teacher must be careful not to shout a word class that is impossible to associate with the previous word.