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Musical Nouns and Verbs

Aotearoa’s youth music festival needs a new lyric for its opening act. Read the original lyrics, then investigate how nouns and verbs make the song work. A noun names a person, place, thing or idea; a verb expresses an action, event or state.

Opening act: “After the Rain”

Rain taps the roof while the city wakes. Mere lifts her guitar; the first chord shivers. Footsteps hurry past the station, then fade. Hope rises slowly as the crowd begins to sing. We carry the chorus home beneath a silver moon.

1.From “After the Rain”, list three nouns and three verbs. Choose words that appear in the lyrics, not words you have invented.

2.In the second line, “Mere lifts her guitar”, which word is a proper noun? Explain what makes it different from the other nouns in that line.

3.The line says, “Hope rises slowly as the crowd begins to sing.” Identify the abstract noun and explain why it is abstract.

4.In “Footsteps hurry past the station, then fade”, name both verbs. What changes in the scene from the first verb to the second?

5.Most verbs in the lyrics describe events happening in the present. Rewrite “Mere lifts her guitar; the first chord shivers” so both verbs describe the past.

6.In “We carry the chorus home”, identify the verb and its direct object. Use the question “We carry what?” to help you.

7.In the line “Rain taps the roof while the city wakes”, the words rain, roof and city are nouns, while taps and wakes are verbs. Is this statement true or false? Give one reason.

TrueFalse

8.Match each word to its grammatical role in the lyrics.

guitar
Mere
hope
shivers

proper noun
verb
abstract noun
common noun

9.Rewrite “The crowd begins to sing” so it includes one extra noun and one extra verb. Keep it as a complete sentence, then identify the noun and verb you added.

10.Write two original lyric lines about a memorable sound in Aotearoa. Include at least two nouns and two verbs; underline your nouns and circle your verbs. Then name one noun and one verb you used.