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Word types and native Thai words

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Word types and native Thai words

An AR classroom game for Grade 3. Learners can aim with their hands at the camera or play by tapping the screen.

This set has 4 rounds in an interactive sorting activity.

Curriculum indicatorท 4.1 ป.3/1

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A look before you play

Sample questions

A few real prompts from the game to help you choose an activity for your class.

  1. Sort the words into groups.

    Sort into

    • nouns
    • verbs
    • ครู (khru - teacher)
    • สอน (sorn - teaches)
    • นักเรียน (nak-rian - student)
    • เรียน (rian - to study)
    Read the explanation

    Tell a noun from a verb by asking whether you can touch it or name it.

  2. Sort the words into groups.

    Sort into

    • describes a noun
    • describes a verb
    • สวย (suay - beautiful)
    • เร็ว (reo - fast)
    • ใหญ่ (yai - big)
    • ช้า (chaa - slow)
    Read the explanation

    Separate modifiers of nouns from modifiers of verbs.

  3. Sort the sentences into groups.

    Sort into

    • statement
    • question
    • วันนี้อากาศดี (the weather is fine today)
    • วันนี้อากาศดีไหม (is the weather fine today?)
    • เขาไปโรงเรียน (he goes to school)
    • เขาไปไหน (where does he go?)
    Read the explanation

    Separate statements from questions.

Before you play

Game teaching guide

What children will practise

Practise sorting word types: nouns versus verbs, modifiers of nouns versus verbs, statements versus questions, and native Thai words versus Pali-Sanskrit loans, to explain word meanings (ท 4.1 ป.3/1).

What's in the worksheet

4 sorting questions - ครู and นักเรียน are nouns; สอน and เรียน are verbs - สวย and ใหญ่ describe nouns; เร็ว and ช้า describe verbs - วันนี้อากาศดี versus วันนี้อากาศดีไหม - กิน and นอน are native Thai; ศึกษา and วิทยา are borrowed

How to use it in class

Use for P3 word-type review, 5 minutes in team mode. - For item 1, use the pairs ครู-สอน and นักเรียน-เรียน: build ครูสอนนักเรียน and label each word - For item 4, share the tip that native Thai words are mostly one syllable, while Pali-Sanskrit ones are often longer and use ศ or ษ - For item 2, ask whether รถเร็ว (a fast car) works, to show modifiers can do both jobs Play it linked to a class and the results go into the mark book.

Common sticking points

- Item 2: putting เร็ว with noun modifiers because children say รถเร็ว often, which is not wrong in real life - Item 4: putting ศึกษา with native words because it is used at school every day - Item 1: swapping เรียน and นักเรียน, which share เรียน

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