If time permitting, students in each pair add other words that they know belong to each category. This activity lasts 5-10 mins. This explanation may take 5 minutes. The teacher leaves five minutes for the students to ask questions in regard to the content learned in this class. Some important concepts are reviewed to reinforce students' understanding.
Students get into groups of three.
Each group chooses one magazine and an article with the topic that interests them. While reading, they need to underline all nouns with article a, an, the and also the nouns with no articles. They discuss with their group members why they think specific articles are used in specific sentences. The teacher writes down 3-4 sentences applied to each article on board and encourages the students to dig out the underlying rules for the use of articles. Whole class discussion follows.