Office applications for whole-class teaching

 Where have all the verbs gone?

All the verbs have been taken out of this text. Work with a partner to put them back in again.

These friends of mine a new carpet, so they to the shop and one and

the carpet-fitter round to fit it while they out at work. When he, he that

there a bump right in the middle. He that this be a pack of cigarettes

that he absent-mindedly, so he up and down on the bump until it flat.

The family home and the carpet. Then they the man if he their pet

canary 1 which missing. It then that he his cigarettes on the hall table!

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A canary is a small yellow bird.

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