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Objectives

To understand how articles modify nouns.

Resources

Nelson Grammar Pupil Book 3


Today's Lesson

Spelling

Look at the words below and do a pre-test. This means that you are checking how well your student can spell these words before you teach them. You do not need to focus on the words your student spelled correctly the first time.

Rule: The suffix -ous (1 of 2).

  • dangerous
  • famous
  • enormous
  • humorous

PRACTISE - Spelling Frame

Dictation

  1. Fires can be very dangerous.
  2. Aziza hoped one day she would be famous.
  3. An elephant is an enormous animal.
  4. Watching the clown slip was humorous.

Introduction

Today we will be looking at articles. English has two articles: the and a/an.

An article is a word that identifies the noun or noun phrase that comes after it as being either general or specific. For example, an apple or the fence...

Main Activity

Please watch the following video that will explain articles in more detail.

Open page 6 in Nelson Grammar Pupil Book 3 and complete the activities on pages 6 and 7.

Citations

[1] spellingframe.co.uk