This document lists 33 useful verbs for writing daily summaries, along with examples of how each verb can be used in a sentence. Some of the verbs included are talked, commented, revised, worked, read, listened to, watched, explained, corrected, learnt by heart, focused, helped, wrote, suggested, answered, guessed, repeated, asked, copied, reported, reminded, found out, checked, looked up, interviewed, sat, swapped, exchanged, learnt, took turns, handed, collected, and summarized.
1. Some useful verbs to write daily summaries.
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verbs examples
1 talk/ talked we talked about the origin of our names
2 comment/commented we commented the new post
3 revise/ revised we revised irregular verbs
4 work/ worked we worked in pairs/individually/in groups
5 read/ read we read aloud
6 listen to/listened to we listened to a song
7 watch/watched we watched a you tube video
8 explain/explained the teacher explained the task
9 correct/corrected we corrected the spelling
10 learn by heart/learnt by heart we learnt the poem by heart
11 focus/focused we focused on the main character of the book
12 help/helped we helped our partner/each other
the student wrote the date and session in the
13 write/wrote
notebook
14 suggest/suggested we suggested a name for the blog
15 answer/answered we answered questions about the film
16 guess/guessed we guessed possible answers to the question
we repeated after the teacher imitating the
17 repeat/repeated
pronunciation
18 ask/asked we asked each other about our families
19 copy/copied we copied the result of the survey
20 report/reported we reported the results of the Internet search
21 remind/reminded The teacher reminded us to use the spell checker
2. 22 find our/found out we found out the answers in wikipedia
23 check/checked we checked each other’s answers
24 look up/looked up we looked up the word in the dictionary
25 interview/interviewed we interviewed two classmates
26 sit/sat we sat in circle/pairs/in groups
27 swap/swapped we swapped places and books
28 exchange/exchange we exchanged information
29 learn/learnt we learnt how to pronounce a word
30 take turns/took turns we took turns to answer
31 hand/handed we handed in homework
32 collect/collected the teacher collected the assigments
33 summarize/summarized we summarized the plot of the story