Words
Activity 1
Show learners the image in the first slide. Ask them to work with a partner and write down as many words as they can see. Share back with the whole class and accept any valid answers.
Activity 2
Show learners the list of actions. Ask them to put the letters a-f in the appropriate order. Circulate and accept any reasonable answers. On the next slide, disucss possible solutions as a whole class.
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Words
Objective
To explore the meaning of simple, everyday words and how they relate to your experience of the world.
Activity 1
There are many kinds of words.
Do you know the words for what you see in the picture? Talk to a partner and write down as many words as you can.
Nouns and Vocabulary
Activity 1
Show the leaners the the list of nouns. After hearing their ideas, explain what concrete nouns are, and ask leaners if they can see or find any other examples in the classroom. Explain what abstract nouns are and ask for any other examples.
Next, ask the learners to work in pairs and small groups. Copy down the table and decide which nouns are concrete or abstract. Check the answers as a whole class.
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Nouns and vocabulary
Objective
To explore the meaning of simple, everyday nouns, and how they relate to your experience of the world.
Activity 1
Look at this list of nouns: chair, fork, dog, house, person, football player
What do they all have in common?
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Gender in Nouns
Activity 1
Explain to the learners that nouns can refer to male or female people. In language, this difference is called gender.
Ask learners to copy down the list and add the nouns of the oppsite gender. Show them the solutions and ask them what patterns they notice. Answer: some are completely different words while others use a suffix to change the meaning.
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Gender in Nouns
Objective
To explore the meaning of gender in nouns.
Activity 1
What's the difference between the words mother and father?
Nouns for people can refer to a man or a male such as father or to a woman or female such as mother .
In language, we call this difference gender.
For each noun, write the word that expresses the opposite gender: