Открытый урок "Countable and Uncoutable nouns"

Target group: Form one pupils

Assumption: Pupils have already

learnt parts of speech

e.g. nouns & adjectives

Aims : (1) Teach pupils how

to identify countable

and uncountable nouns

(2) and how to change

singular countable

nouns to plural nouns

Nouns

Click the ones that you think can be counted.

Furniture

Penguin

Star

Weightlifting

Rain

Tea

Singing

Money

Sadness

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DEFINITION OF COUNTABLE NOUNS

• refer to people, places, or things that can be counted.
• can be made plural, usually by adding -s or -es at the end
• Examples: student--- students

flower --- flowers

Countable Nouns

DEFINITION OF UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

-happiness

Bread

Chair

Anger

Homework

Bee

Bird

Love

Swimming

Paper

Church

Dog

Butterfly

Building

Writing

4) Nouns ending in - y usually change the ending to - ies :

cit ies

bab ies

But nouns ending in - ay , - ey , - iy , - oy , or - uy

just add s:

day s

toy s

5) Nouns ending in - f or - fe usually change the ending to - ves :

wol ves

li ves

6) These nouns change in different ways:

7) A few nouns don’t change at all:

9) Some nouns seem plural in meaning, but are really singular:

Activity

• One student says the name of one animal: e.g. One cat.
• The next student says the name of the first animal, and adds one more animal. e.g. One cat and two dogs.
• Then, the next student should add one more to the list. e.g. One cat, two dogs and three mice.
• There are some hints for you.

Hints

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