Plural nouns: Adding S, ES, and IES

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo g, t, mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1,2

Welcome students!

Welcome to your English lessons!

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

Mr. Westra

Learning Objective

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

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

What are Plural Nouns?

Plural nouns refer to more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

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

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

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

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

Exceptions

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

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

1. tomatos
2. tomaten
3. tomato's
4. tomatoes

Plurals Nouns:

wolf

1. wolves
2. wolfs
3. wolvs
4. wolfes

Plurals Nouns:

elf

1. elfs
2. elvs
3. elfes
4. elves

Plural Nouns:

knife

1. knife's
2. knifes
3. knives
4. kniven

Plural Nouns:

witch

1. Witchen
2. Witchs
3. Witches
4. Witch

Plural Nouns:

hero

1. heroes
2. hero's
3. heros
4. held

Plural Nouns:

hobby

1. hobby's
2. hobbys
3. hobbies
4. hobby

Plural Nouns:

puppy

1. puppies
2. puppy's
3. puppys
4. puppen

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

How do you like to study for english tests?

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.

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.

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.