Plural nouns: Adding S, ES, and IES

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Today's lesson: Plural Nouns: Adding S, ES, and IES

Mr. Westra
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This lesson contains 21 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

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Welcome students!
Welcome to your English lessons!

Today's lesson: Plural Nouns: Adding S, ES, and IES

Mr. Westra

Slide 1 - Slide

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Learning Objective
At the end of the lesson, you will be able to understand and use plural nouns.

Slide 2 - Slide

Explain to the students that by the end of the lesson, they should be able to identify and use plural nouns correctly.

Slide 3 - Video

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What are Plural Nouns?
Plural nouns refer to more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

Slide 4 - Slide

Introduce the concept of plural nouns and provide examples of nouns that can be made plural.
Adding 'S' to Form Plurals
Most nouns can be made plural by simply adding 's' at the end.

  • dog - dogs 
  • book - books 
  • house - houses

Slide 5 - Slide

Explain the rule of adding 's' to form plurals and provide examples.
Adding 'ES' to Form Plurals
Nouns ending in 's', 'x', 'z', 'ch', or 'sh' require 'es' to form plurals.

  • bus - buses
  • box - boxes
  • buzz - buzzes

Slide 6 - Slide

Explain the rule of adding 'es' to nouns that end in specific letters and provide examples.
Adding 'IES' to Form Plurals
Nouns ending in 'y' with a consonant before it, change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es' to form plurals.

  • baby - babies 
  • berry - berries 
  • fly - flies

Slide 7 - Slide

Explain the rule of changing 'y' to 'i' and adding 'es' to nouns with specific endings and provide examples.
Adding 'VES' to Form Plurals
Nouns ending in '-f or -fe' require -ves to make the pural form

  • knife - knives
  • wolf - wolves

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Exceptions
There are some nouns which have their own plural form that do not follow any specific rules

Slide 9 - Slide

ask the student to think of examples of singular nouns with odd plural forms.

Examples:
Child - Children
Man - Men
Mouse - Mice
Tooth - Teeth
Person - People
Fish & Sheep

Plural Nouns:

tomato
A
tomatos
B
tomaten
C
tomato's
D
tomatoes

Slide 10 - Quiz

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Plurals Nouns:

wolf
A
wolves
B
wolfs
C
wolvs
D
wolfes

Slide 11 - Quiz

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Plurals Nouns:

elf
A
elfs
B
elvs
C
elfes
D
elves

Slide 12 - Quiz

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Plural Nouns:

knife
A
knife's
B
knifes
C
knives
D
kniven

Slide 13 - Quiz

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Plural Nouns:

witch
A
Witchen
B
Witchs
C
Witches
D
Witch

Slide 14 - Quiz

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Plural Nouns:

hero
A
heroes
B
hero's
C
heros
D
held

Slide 15 - Quiz

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Plural Nouns:

hobby
A
hobby's
B
hobbys
C
hobbies
D
hobby

Slide 16 - Quiz

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Plural Nouns:

puppy
A
puppies
B
puppy's
C
puppys
D
puppen

Slide 17 - Quiz

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Now lets get to work!
Do Exercises 1 till 11  from your workbook (Lesson 2).

Homework next week: 
Lesson 1: Exercise 1 & 2
Lesson 2: Exercise 1 till 11

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How do you like to study for english tests?

Slide 19 - Open question

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.
Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Slide 20 - Open question

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.
Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

Slide 21 - Open question

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.