Stage 1: Simple beginnings :

Unit 5: Verbs

Pictured Words

New Words

1.old woman
2.ear
3.neck
4.head
5.hand
6.baby
7.dress
8.shoe

Nouns

hand
middle
stone
history
neck
teaching
name
sea
Town

Adjectives

hard - soft
little
married
same

Structure Words

after
far
off
under
among
for
over
before
if
through

Sayings


turn right, please.

turn left, please.

go straight, please.

What is her name?

My name is Mary.

I live over there.

Examples of Verbs

Have

A saviour has come to birth.

when the angels had gone away.

till he had seen.

as you have said.

Son, why have you done this to us?

Make

which was made.

to make an offering

which you have made ready

Keep

there were keepers of sheep in the fields

the keepers of the sheep said to one another

Mary kept all these words in her heart.

so that he might keep in mind his mercy

Let

you are letting your servant go

let it be to me as you say

Seem

his words seemed strange to them

Say

And the angel said, have no fear.

giving praise to God, and saying

the keepers of the sheep said to one another

gave them his blessing and said to Mary

And he said to them

Send

I have been sent to say these words.

the angel Gabriel was sent from God

he sent for writing materials

See

see this thing saw Mary and Joseph, and the child

until he had seen.

and seeing that he was not there, they went back

when they saw him

A Child Among Them

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus saying, Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them, And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.

Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

And whoever gives honour to one such little child in my name, gives honour to me:

But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea.

Additional Reading

Jesus was the first leader in history to see the importance of children.

He put special value upon them, even saying to his disciples when he was very tired, "do not send them away".

It was quite usual for mothers to bring their little ones to the Jewish teacher, the rabbi, for him to give them his blessing.

So, it was normal for the same to be done with Jesus.

But, he went much further than putting his hand on them in blessing.

He made a little child the answer to the disciples' question about greatness.

In the society of which they were a part, greatness was something of high value.

There was a fixed order in which guests sat at table that gave a sign of their greatness.

To have property got special rewards.

To be great got special attention and gave the leader freedom from work.

But Jesus way was that of a servant.

His values were different because he saw value in service as a sign of greatness.