LESSON PLAN

Date:
Teacher: Andrei Elena
ClaSs: 9th (2 classes/week)
Number of students:
Students’ level: intermediate
School:
Time of lesson: 50 min
Textbook: English My Love
Title of lesson: The Plural of the Nouns

Lesson Aims:
• teaching Ss the plural of nouns;
• teaching Ss the regular plural of nouns;
• teaching Ss the exception of the regular plural of nouns.

Activity 1. Warming-up (GW; 5 min.)

Aim: Get Ss familiarised with the plural of nouns
Procedure:
a) Game. T. begins a story, Ss have to continue it using as many as plural
nouns as they can.
Ex. Every time I go abroad I take a lot of photos. Last year I visited…

Activity 2. General spelling rules (10 min.)

Aim: Teach Ss the general rule of spelling the plural of nouns adding “-s” or
“es”
Procedure:
A) T. writes on blackboard the following nouns:
love – loves, book – books; epoch – epochs;
b) Ss are asked why only “-s” has been added;
c) T. explains that we add only “s” after nouns ending in vowel – including e
mute – nouns ending in consonants and ch [k];
d) T. writes on blackboard the following nouns:
claSs [s] – claSses; buzz [z] – buzzes; box [x] – boxes; church [tʃ] –
churches; brush [ʃ] – brushes; judge [dʒ] – judges;
e) Ss are asked to give other examples of nouns that form the plural with “-s”
and “-es” and motivate their choice.

Activity 3. Pronunciation (5 min.)

Aim: Teach Ss to pronounce correctly the plural nouns
Procedure:
a) T writes on blackboard that -s is pronounced [z]
1) after voiced consonants: pens
2) after consonants preceded by vowel: boys, cows, plays
3) - s is pronounced [s] after voiceless consonants: cats, books>
b) Ss are asked to repeat the correct pronunciation;
c) T writes on blackboard that “-es” is pronounced [iz] after the sibilants [s],
[z], [tʃ], [dʒ], [ʃ], [ʒ];

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d) Ss are asked to repeat the correct pronunciation.

Activity 4. The rule of “y”

Aim: teach Ss that there are some exceptions when the noun ends in “y” (5
min.)
Procedure:
a) T writes on blackboard: boy – boys; toy – toys;
b) Ss should remark that “y” is preceded by a vowel,
c) T. writes that all nouns ending in “y” preceded by a vowel add only “s”
d) T writes on blackboard: cry – cries; spy – spies;
e) Ss should remark that the “y” is preceded by a consonant,
f) T explains that nouns ending in “y” preceded by consonants change the “y”
into “i” and add “es”;
g) Ss are asked to give examples for the two cases.

Activity 5. Exceptions of “y” (5 min.)

Aim. Teach Ss the exceptions of nouns ending in “y” that add “s” after “y”
Procedure:
a) T writes on blackboard: Germany – Germanys, why – the whys of the
problem;
b) Ss should remark that the first example is a proper noun and the second
belongs to a part of speech which is not a noun.

Activity 6. General rules and exceptions of nouns ending in “o” (5 min.)

Aim: teach Ss the general rule and exceptions of nouns ending in “o”
Procedure:
a) T writes on blackboard: tomato – tomatoes, potato – potatoes, and explains
that this is the general rule;
b) T. writes on blackboard: 1. zoos, bamboos, 2. Eskimos, Filipinos, 3. photos,
kilos, 4. solos, tempos, and asks Ss why only “s” was added?
c) Ss should remark that in case 1 the o is preceded by another vowel; 2 is a
proper name; 3 is formed from abbreviation; 4 nouns of Italian origin.

Activity 7. Exercises
Aim: T to be sure that Ss have understood the plural of nouns (15 min.)
Procedure:
a) multiple choice exercise given to Ss on sheets of paper.
Which is right?
1. I saw 10 monkies/monkeys at the zoo.
2. Tom will bring another two boxes/boxs.
3. His sister has three babies/babys.
4. When I was in England last year I met four Eskimos/Eskimoes.
5. I like reading. Till now I’ve read many bookes/books.

Activity 8. Homework
Aim: Ss to practise, T to check if Ss know to use the plural of nouns correctly.
(5 min.)
Procedure:
a) ex…, page…, textbook