Passive voice rhyming past participles poems activities

Instructions for teachers

There are several different activities which can be done with this poem, which I would probably do in the order given, but skipping some steps:

Read out the poem and get students to guess what the object is each time before you say the last line of each verse. You can make this easier by using gestures to accompany each verse, as the poem has been designed so that the same gesture could go together with the false clue and the true clue. The gestures are:

Hands getting further apart to show the balloon being blown up
One hand going round and round to show the coffee being ground
One hand throwing seeds out onto the ground to show feeding a chicken
Biting a coin to check if it’s genuine and then giving it to someone
Taking something from your eye to show getting a contact lens that is falling out
Putting something on the seat and then sitting down to show hiding a whoopee cushion
Banging two rocks together to make a fire
Moving one hand up and down to show cutting cheese
Moving one hand quickly down your shirt to show opening a zip

Sound effects may also help make the meanings clear.

Students listen to the poem again and do the gestures as soon as they remember or can work the gestures out from the clues or answer
Students listen to the poem again and watch the gestures and try to remember the second line (or at least its last word) from the gesture and the fact that it must rhyme with the first line
Students try to remember the last word of the first line and the rest of the poem, using the gestures to help
Students try to remember the whole poem from just the gestures
Students try to remember just the rhyming words (without hearing the rest of the poem)
Students try to say past participles that rhyme with other past participles that the teacher says which are not in the poem
Students try to remember the past participles in the poem when the teacher says the infinitives
Students do one or more of the worksheets below
Students write similar poems about other objects (probably without any accompanying gestures), perhaps using the list on the last page below to help them

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Is it grown? passive voice rhyming past participles poem

Is it grown?

No, it’s blown.

It’s a balloon.

Is it wound?

No, it’s ground.

It’s coffee.

Is it spread?

No, it’s fed.

It’s a bird.

Is it bent?

No, it’s spent.

It’s a coin.

Is it wept?

No, it’s kept.

It’s a contact lens.

Is it ridden?

No, it’s hidden.

It’s a whoopee cushion.

Is it hit?

No, it’s lit.

It’s a match.

It is beaten?

No, it’s eaten.

It’s cheese.

Is it torn?

No, it’s worn.

It’s a fleece.

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Rhyming past participles gapfill

Without looking above, fill the gaps below with rhyming verbs.

Is it grown?