Camp Staff Verbs 1

Camp-related verbs exercise for summer camp staff — the action words of camp life.

Vocabulary in context

Verbs are the engine of a sentence, and in summer camp English, the engine runs hard. Counselors don't just supervise — they facilitate, intervene, escalate, debrief, and coordinate. Each of those words carries a specific meaning that shapes how a situation is handled and reported. This exercise focuses on the camp-specific action verbs that appear in daily camp life — in announcements, in staff instructions, in incident reports, and in the conversations between counselors that keep activities running and campers safe. Knowing these verbs isn't just about communication — it's about doing the job at the level of professionalism that modern summer camps expect.

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Tell the children what you (or they) need to do by completing each of the following sentences with the best-suited verb from the list: walk, chop, toss out, check, speak, bring, light, watch out, put on, make