Learn grammar items while learning the facts about honeybees.

3. Books which tell real things are known as non-
fiction books. The ‘story’ is actually called an
information report! Information reports are unlike
stories which are often made up. They collect facts
and organize them to provide information to
people.
How much do you know about honey bees! You
have seen movies, cartoons and read story
books. This book is even more special! It will tell
you the real things about honeybees.
After reading this book, you might want to
do an information report on something you
like!

4. While enjoying the story, let us learn
some grammar because grammar
helps us to put ideas in ways which
people can understand you and me.
Are there any words above put in a
way so that it makes sense?
See! All the highlighted
words are put in a
certain way to make
sense to you and others!
Imagine missing out one
or two of them!

5. Let us start off by
looking at nouns.
Nouns are naming
words of people,
places and things.
For example…….
There you go! These
are nouns. There are
many types of
nouns. However we
will only look at two
kinds of nouns:
GENERAL
and
SPECIFIC

6. Can you
identify
the nouns
here?
That’s right!
So, which are general or
specific nouns? Specific
nouns are special nouns
but general nouns are
common names given. For
example, “Ben 10” is a
specific noun but
“cartoon” is a general
noun.

7. This page tells you
what the queen
bee and the
worker bees do.
The highlighted
words answers the
questions.
These words are
called “verbs”

8. Information
texts are also
usually in
present
tense.

9. More
examples of
present
tense…
Another
thing to
observe is
the use of
technical
words.
Technical
words are
scientific
terms given.

10. Which of the
words do you
think are
technical
words?
Yes! You
got it!

11. Let’s come back
to verbs. Do you
remember what
are verbs?
Good!
There are two
types of verbs we
are looking at:
Linking verbs
and
Action verbs

12. Linking verbs links topics to ideas
(There are none here!)
Action verbs shows physical actions.
(highlighted in blue)

13. Can you
identify the
verbs here?

14. Let’s see if you
can find
linking verbs
or action verbs
here.

15. Let’s recap.
Can you
identify
the technical
words here?
That’s right!

16. Can you find the
technical words
in this text?

17. Can you find
any verbs here?
Well
done!
Bravo!

19. Can you find
the adjectives
here?
Have you ever made
fun of your friend
calling him “fat”,
“slow” or praising
him with words like
“clever” and
“smart”?
If you have done so,
you are actually using
adjectives! Adjectives
describes nouns. For
example, a clean
classroom or a fast
runner.

20. Come on! Challenge
yourself?
Discuss with your
friends
and
teachers
if you can find these:
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Technical Words
- General Nouns
- Specific Nouns
- Linking verbs
- Action verbs

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Nouns
Verbs
Technical Word
Adjectives