Material Activity 3: Teaching English to Grade 3 Students

Material Activity: Common and proper nouns

Goal: The students will understand the difference between common and proper nouns

Objectives: By the end of the lesson students will:

• Define common and proper nouns

• Use capital letter properly
• Appreciate the use of nouns in their daily lives

Target students: Grade three students

Target skills: • Listening • Reading • Writing • Grammar

Materials

• Whiteboard and a pen

• Hand out with the following passage:

The Wise Son In Africa

In the country of Ghana, there once lived a man who had three sons. One day, before he left on a
long journey, Mario gathered his sons around him. He gave each child an egg. “I will be gone for
a long time.” He told his sons. “Use these eggs to help your mother.” But as soon Mario left, the
two older boys cooked and ate their eggs. The youngest boy, Elmo, gave his egg to his mother,
who put it under a hen to hatch. Many months later, Mario returned. The youngest son prepared a
feast to welcome him back-for he had many chickens and many eggs.

Activity 1: Warm up (2min)

Aim: Transition into a learning environment

• Greetings, checking attendance, reviewing last lesson and issuing the handout to students.
Activity 2: Reading and answering questions (3minutes)

Ask the students to read the passage and answer the following questions

1. In which country did Mario live in?

2. What did mario gave his children ?
3. What the name of Mario’s youngest boy?
4. What did the youngest son prepare for his father?

Activity 3: Teaching the concepts (5 minutes)

• Defining common nouns and giving examples

• Defining proper nouns and giving examples
Common Nouns Proper Nouns

Definition: Nouns that are used to name -Nouns that are used to name specific places,
persons, places events or animals in general persons, things, event or animals.
-Written in Capital letters

Examples: Father, dog, city, table, bird, book, Examples: Mark, Arizona, Catfish, Samsung,
town, , mother, student , ocean, boy, city, and Nokia, Lincoln, New York, Mitchell, and
country Christmas

Activity 4: Application question (3minutes)

• Ask student to identify all the common nouns and proper nouns from the provided
passage.****

Activity 5: Wrap up (2min)

• Invite question from students and respond to them.

• Assign students a task to list at least 30 common nouns and 30 proper nouns without
repeating the nouns taught in class.