This teaching resource, Partner Sentence Challenge, is a great way to get students to apply their knowledge of grammar to the people they know. This can be a resource task that can be used with peers in the classroom or an activity that can be done with members of the family at home. It is a great conversation piece between students and their parents who may have forgotten their grammar conventions since they were at school.

Students get a chance to implement the following grammar conventions

• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Proper nouns
• Adjectives
• Colour Adjectives
• Verbs
• Adverbs
• Articles
• Conjunctions
• Prepositions

This activity could be a regular routine after your class has mastered the concept of each grammar convention or as a good icebreaker for a new classroom. This can also be used as a homework piece or at a parent celebration evening, where students and parents can share with each other specific vocabulary about each other.

In the classroom, you can put students into pairs to interview each other or choose a friend to focus on and fill out independently. Once filled in, students can use their own writing books to write out a quick but well-written, paragraph using all the grammar vocabulary they have brainstormed.

Alternatively, this is a fantastic aid as a checklist for writing ideas when brainstorming vocabulary while planning.