N5.

1 – A/An with nouns

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Alternative Tags: articles, indefinite
articles, determiners

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 Match the nouns and pictures

A B
a
house
a cat

a
question
C D

a
flower
 Match the nouns and pictures

A B
a lemon

a window

C D

a
person a
chair
 A noun is a person or thing

a + noun = one thing a + noun = one person

a book, a box, a table, a woman, a man, a child,

a chair a student
 Match the sentences and pictures

A B Henry
works in a
bank.

There is a
man in the
C D
swimming
pool.

That is This is
a an
flower. orange.
 Using a and an before nouns

an + noun beginning
a + noun
with a / e / i / o / u
a flower, a bank, a question, an apple, an elephant, an
a man orange
 An with a / e / i / o /u
A E I

an apple an elephant an island

U
O

an orange an umbrella
Your turn – use a or an with the nouns
C
A B

airport car house

D E F

book old book jacket

Your turn – use a or an with the nouns

A B C

potato computer orange

D E F

man hat umbrella

 hour and university

an hour a university

an hour not a hour a university not an university

(there is no ‘h’ sound) (we say ‘yu’niversity)
Your turn – use a or an with the nouns

A B C

hour university horse

D E

angry man mountain

 Match the pictures to sentences

A B A banana is a
fruit.

Basketball
is a sport.

C D
Alfred is
a teacher.
Blair is
a florist.
 Different ways to use a and an

We use a/an to say what a We use a/an for jobs and

person or thing is. professions.

Paris is I am a
a city. student.
A bee is
Mike is an
an insect.
electrician.

That is a tall Jacob is a

building. teacher.
 What are these things?

A B C D

a
a parrot broccoli football
grapefruit

Example: Football is a sport.

bird vegetable fruit sport

 What are these things?

A B C D

a
a clarinet a grater hockey
screwdriver

musical cooking
sport tool
instrument utensil
 What are these things?

A B C D

Mont
The USA Saturn London
Blanc

mountain planet country city

 What does each person do?

A B C

Jane Alex Sylvia

Example: Jane is a surgeon.

shop
plumber surgeon
assistant
 What does each person do?

A B C

Andrew Jake Julie

truck driver police officer architect

 What does each person do?

A B C

Donald Sarah Andrea

teacher photographer dentist

 What does each person do?

A B C

Ravi Tom Jenny

electrician hairdresser artist

 Make sentences using a or an

Picasso was… English queen.

Napoleon was… Spanish painter.

Tchaikovsky was… French emperor.

Shakespeare was… a / an American writer.

Mark Twain was… English writer.

Elizabeth I was… famous composer.

 Make sentences using a/an + a noun
foreign
supermarket motorcycle
language

1. Alex wants to learn

a foreign language.

2. Trish works in
__________.

3. Stuart can ride

__________.
 Make sentences using a/an + a noun
birthday
umbrella question
party

4. Tomorrow we are going

to __________.

5. The student wants to ask

__________.

6. It’s raining outside so

please take _________.
 What are these things?

car French goat

fireman

language animal
is a/an

John
piano
hammer
musical Ferrari tool
instrument
 Use a or an

7. Florence is a designer and an artist.

8. Birmingham is ____ city in England.

9. ___ orange has vitamin C.

10. Mercury is ___ small planet.

11. I am ___ student at ___ university in Spain.

12. William is waiting for ___ bus.

 Make sentences using a/an + a noun

camera sport dictionary

13. Tennis is __________.

14. You can take pictures with

__________.

15. You use __________ to

understand the meaning of
a new word.
 Make sentences using a/an + a noun

river plane mouse

16. Look! I can see __________ in

the sky.

17. He jumped on the chair

because he saw __________.

18. The Nile is __________ in

Africa.
 What are they doing?

game song orange

A B C

Melissa is Robyn is Chris is

singing… eating… playing…
 What are they doing?

picture email avocado

A B C

Mike is Rachel is Helen is

writing… painting… cutting…
 Make sentences about famous people

French
scientist painter writer singer
king

19. Einstein was a scientist.

20. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was…

21. Louis XVI was…

22. Michelangelo was…

23. Ella Fitzgerald was…

 Make your own sentences

A B C

Madonna potato Earth

D E F

elm Italy volleyball