Students’ Learning Outcomes
Change the number of irregular nouns
Information for Teacher
Irregular Nouns that don’t follow the rules.
Most nouns can be made plural by adding ‘an’ or’en’
There are some nouns that form the plural differently, some nouns change their vowels in the middle of the singular form, when forming the plural.
Example:
Goose/geese, foot/feet, man/men, etc.
Several nouns form the plural by adding the letters –en or –ren.Example: ox/oxen, child/children, etc.
· There are a number of animals that have the same singular and plural form.
Example: deer/deer, sheep/sheep, fish/fish, etc.
· A scavenger hunt is a game in which the organizer prepares a list of specific items. The participants of the game try to find all the items on the list. The team or individual who completes the list first, wins
Material / Resources
Papers with items listed for the scavenger hunt, colored paper stars work sheet, chalks/markers, board, textbook, (if photocopy facility is not available, write the sentences on the board).
Worm Up Activity
· Begin the lesson by announcing that the whole class is going on a scavenger hunt. Explain to the students; What a scavenger hunt is?
· Divide the class into small groups Give each group the paper with things to be found such as books, pens, pencils, erasers, scales, shoes, etc.
· Prepare this list before starting the lesson.
· Tell the groups that they also have to write, on the given paper, the singular or plural of those things. Give the groups 5 minutes for the hunt.
· The group which gathers all the things and writes the singular or plurals first, wins.
· After the game finishes, tell the students that there are some nouns which make plural differently from all the nouns learnt so far. Tell the class that they will learn those nouns today.
Development
Activity
Tell the students about the nouns that change the middle vowels when pluralized ( see the rule in information for teachers above).
· Write the examples on the board. Underline the middle vowels that change it into a plural form.
· Similarly tell the class (with example) about the nouns that take –en in plural forms and the nouns that remain same in both singular and plural forms.
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· Ask the students to match column A with B.
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Column (A) Singular
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Column (B) Plural
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mouse
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feet
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foot
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deer
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goose
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men
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man
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fish
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woman
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mice
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child
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geese
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ox
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teeth
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people
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fruits
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fruit
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people
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tooth
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women
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fish
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oxen
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deer
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children
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Activity 2
· Make pairs of students or divide them into groups.
· Distribute worksheets among them. (The worksheet is provided at the end of the lesson plan.)
· Ask them to follow the instruction given in the worksheet to do the activity.
Sum Up/ Conclusion
· Conclude the lesson by repeating how some nouns form irregular plurals.
Assessment
· Give the following jumbled up words to the students and tell them to write their plural after rearranging them.
Jumbled words
Singular Words Plural words
Toof ______________________
Osoge ______________________
Nam _________________________
Onwma __________________________
Lichd _________________________
Xo ____________________________
Urift ______________________
Otoh ________________________
Isfh ___________________________
Follow Up
· Ask the students to cut out five pictures from old magazines or newspapers and paste them in their notebooks 9 continued activity from the previous lesson)
· Ask them to label them with the singular and plural forms. Tell students to paste pictures of the nouns they just learnt in the lesson. You can name this activity as plural Book.
Worksheet: irregular Plural Nouns
( ( Activity 2)
Name:_______________________ Date:_____________________
Read each sentence. Write the plural of the word given in brackets.
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| 1. There are four (man) at the bus stop. |
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| Add caption2. I brush my (tooth) everyday. |
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| 3.Two (mouse) are eating cheese. |
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| 4. Mr Ali has two (child) |
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| 5. The farmer has five (sheep). |
