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Y3 Spring Term Part 1. CW Lesson 3

The two tenses of verbs we know so far are ______ and ___________.

 Use a pencil and ruler to underline the verbs in Aesop’s Fable. Some sentences have more

than one verb.

The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf

A shepherd’s boy was caring for his flock near a village. He tricked the

villagers by pretending that a wolf attacked his sheep. The boy shouted,
“Wolf, wolf!” People ran to him but he laughed at them. He repeated this

several times until the villagers ignored him. One day a wolf really walked
into the flock of sheep. The boy shouted but no-one came. The wolf killed

lots of sheep.

1. Which is the collective noun in this story? __________________________

2. Are the verbs past or present tense verbs? __________________________

3. Are there any proper nouns in the fable? __________________________

4. Which words are inside speech marks? __________________________

5. How many sentences are in this story? __________________________

6. What name would you give the shepherd’s boy?_________________________

 Write as many verbs, past or present which you could use if you were writing about the
Olympic Games, e.g. swimming, pole-vaulting.

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 Find as many verbs as you can which double the consonant when adding ‘ing’, e.g.

running.

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