Students are asked to make a list of all school names in Georgia, then put a circle around any name that requires the before it. They should finish this by Friday. Students will compare their lists to those of their classmates. Teacher brings to class as many visual aids and realea to introduce different types of noncount nouns. The ten categories on page 218 and 219 would make the presentation of the topic systematic and comprehensive.
Students work in pairs to classify the list of nouns into count and noncount.
Within the list of count nouns, they put the plural forms in one column and the singular forms in another. Teacher offers help when needed and gives a final feedback. Here the teacher should also use visual aids and real things to explain the different ways of measuring or counting the things that cannot be counted using numbers. In groups of four students make a list of different phrases that native speakers use when they try to count or measure noncount nouns. Students are assigned to add as many phrases as they can to the list they have started in exercise A. Students can interview native speakers of English to make the list.