Lesson: Singular and plural nouns

Time: 45minutes

Level: Beginner

Date: 19/2/2015

Materials: White Board, Markers, Power Point Presentation, Picture cut outs, Treats.

Objectives:
To ensure that beginner level students are able to:
1. Differentiate between a singular noun vs. plural noun.
2. To use S properly at the end of nouns to indicate if the noun
is a singular or plural.
3. To Encourage student participation and pair work.
4. Introduce students to the rewards system.

Stage/Aims

Teachers: Areej Mughal.

Time

T/S

Anticipated problems for Teacher:

1. Time Management.
Solution: Adhering to the time restrictions for each stage and also,
avoiding TTT to stay on task.
Anticipated problems for Students:

1. Pronunciation of plural words

Solution: Choral drilling of plural words.

Teacher Activity
T will mimic shopping at a clothing store. T1 will pick up a tie from the table and point towards it to elicit the name and the
quantity of the item being bought and then put it in their shopping bag.
T will go along and pick up 5 pens and point them out individually to elicit the name and amount before putting them in
their bag.

Lead in
(Engage stage,
Warm up)

6mins

T/S,
ST

T will pick up will pick up 2 lipsticks and point towards them individually to elicit the items name and the amount.
T will walk around and pretend to search through items to shop. T will then pick up a scarf from the table and elicit the
name and quantity of the item.

T/S,
S/T

T will stay silent throughout the demonstration and only nod their head in a yes or no motion to indicate whether the
students answer correctly or incorrectly.
Ss will formulate their answers based on what they will see and will openly guess what the teachers are trying to convey.

T/S

T will Ask Ss Gist questions about the numerical values of the items bought.

-1.How many ties were bought?

-2. Did I buy six pens? If not then how many?
-3.Were there 3 lipsticks being bought by the teacher? If not then how many?
10mins

T/S

T will present five PowerPoint slides that will contain pictures of various things. T will elicit the names of the items in
singular/ plural form with their number count. T will chorally drill the nouns in their singular and plural forms.
This will ensure that students actively use singular and plural for the upcoming part of the lesson

T/S

T will present the grammar concept in a PowerPoint presentation.

T will explain the definition of a noun. (Name, Place, Animal, Thing/Item).
T will then ask CCQs relating to nouns to confirm if the students understand.

T/S,
S/T

-1.Can someones name be a noun?

-2. Is the word Beautiful a noun? Why?
T will already have nouns written on PowerPoint slide. T will explain the definitions of Singular and plural.

15mins
Singular
(1 Item)
Grammar
(Study)

Plural (2 Items or more).

-Car

Car + s =

Cars

-Ring

Ring + s =

Rings

-Lipstick

Lipstick + s =

Lipsticks

-Cupcake

Cupcake + s =

Cupcakes

-Balloon

Balloon + s =

Balloons

-Apple

Apple + s =

Apples

- Cup

Cup + s =

Cups

- Spoon

Spoon + s =

Spoons

T/S

T/S,
S/T
T/S,
S/T

T will drill the Plural S sounds of each word to avoid pronunciation problems in the future.
T will ask CCQs just to confirm if the students have grasped the concept
Can a singular noun be equal to two items? Yes or No?
We use There is for a plural noun? Yes or No?
Can a letter S ending be added to a noun to make it a plural? Yes or No?
T will ask the students to form groups of two to encourage pair work.

Pair work Activity.

(activate)

T/S
T will give each group two bags full of picture/pictures of different items. T3 will explain the instructions of the activity as
the following:

10mins
S/S

Ss will have five minutes to open their bags and count their paper item cut outs. Each item should be categorized and the
students must identify the amount of the item and if the items are singular or plural through pronunciation of the noun.
T will mimic an example of how the expected answer should be.

S/T
I.e. Students will be required to say We have (amount) (Item/s).
T/S

S/T

T will ask ICQs to ensure if the students are on track:

How many people in one group?
What are we doing?
T will constantly remind Ss of the time restrictions and walk by each pair to monitor them.
Once the time limit is over. T will ask pairs to volunteer and present their answers in verbal form.
For each correct answer, Ss will be rewarded with a treat.

T/S,
S/T

T will then ask students to write their answers on a piece of paper with proper grammar and hand in their answers to the
teacher for correction and feedback.

T/S,
S/T

T will ask students to construct two sentences using There is and another two sentences using There are.
i.e. There is a.
There are
T will give feedback to the class while they read out their answers by turn.

T/S

Activity Feedback

2mins

Feedback and
check

7mins

T/S