grammar
pre-intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide understainding of countable nouns and how and when to appropriately use them
Subsidiary Aims
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speaking and vocabulary practice
Procedure (43-14 minutes)
greet students show a few pictures ask students to name them ask students what we identify them as? (nouns) bring up countable and uncountable nouns ask students which of the pictures are CN / UCN. move on to introduce nouns in grammar, the use of some, any, no etc use student book material to support explanation
students work individually to identify countable and uncountable nouns draw two boxes on the board to divide the nouns into two groups ask students why they have chosen to group them that way encourage feedback by asking for opinions without correction
show tapescript as the answers to task one. check students understand the context that they have been used as this determines the type of noun it is get students to say how they know the difference between CN/UCN. (use of any/some etc)
students work in pairs to work on task encourage more discussion ask pairs to share answers prompt other pairs to help with corrections
students work in pairs A&B one student looks at pg 127 and the other pg 129 students discuss the differences using the prompts provided. monitor to make sure students are using TL
students work on their own to do the task. when completed, they work in groups to check answers. get feedback
students continue working in the groups students share their answers groups help/correct each other