Lesson Plans: Nouns

Count and non-count nouns in EAP.

Synonyms of uncountable nouns in EAP

Deriving both count nouns and non-count nouns from the same academic words

How many countable things and how much of uncountable things to put in a new office roleplay discussion, with quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns presentation.

Count and non-count nouns practice by comparing places.

A fun types of words which are usually countable and uncountable speaking board game which students move around depending on the answers of their partners (without the need for a dice).

Countable nouns that have the same meaning as uncountable nouns matching game

Countable and uncountable presentation through guessing the place game

Students discuss the economics of basic everyday goods for count and non-count nouns practice, including plural and uncountable error correction.

Deciding what to take on your travels countable and uncountable nouns discussion.

Deciding how many/ much countable and uncountable nouns discussion

Students plan how much and how many of count and non-count food and drink to include in a multinational lunch, including nouns which are both countable and uncountable with different meanings.

A speaking game in which students try to get particular answers with how much and how many questions, including Make Me Say Yes and a card game, good for quantifiers with count and non-count nouns.

Students discuss how to stock a new kitchen with count and non-count food and drink, including practice of making uncountable nouns countable with words for containers.

Roleplay Business English speaking activities for count and non-count nouns practice, including meetings and negotiations situations to act out.

Personalised speaking practice of count and non-count nouns on the topic of students' recent lives, including quantifiers with different kinds of nouns presentation.

Practising count and non-count nouns and learner training as students discuss good ways to learn English, also good practice for the language of advice.

Students make sensible or silly drawings in response to how many or how much questions and answers with there is/ are, countable and uncountable nouns, and prepositions of position.

Students compare how much and how many in their recent lives, for personalised count and non-count nouns speaking practice.

Countable and uncountable nouns with a lot of, some, not much, not many, a and not any pairwork speaking, including guessing the festival or celebration and comparing experiecnes with their partner

Teaching count and non-count with food which can be both with different meanings

Students decide how much and how many of which things would make a great Valentine's Day, with nouns which are both countable and uncountable with different meanings and quantifiers with different kinds of nouns presentations.

Students choose, ask, answer, refuse to answer, analyse and make small talk questions with difficult English plurals, with suitable nouns for five different levels of students.

Students try to get their partners to choose wrong answers to how many questions, then try to remember the irregular plural nouns that they were just using in their questions, with irregular nouns from Elementary to Advanced.

Speaking practice for difficult plural forms

Rhyming irregular plurals activities

A fun card game based on Othello to memorise plurals which don't follow regular rules, also good for nouns with difficult to remember singular forms.

Memorising difficult plural nouns card game, based on Othello

Oral storytelling practice of plurals which do and don't take regular forms, with cards at five levels from A1 to C1, and testing students on how well they remember the plurals that they just used.

Jobs made of two words pairwork speaking

Quantifiers to use with uncountable nouns review

Needs analysis topics and questions to present countable and uncountable nouns.

Nouns which are sometimes countable and sometimes uncountable, with different meanings

Kinds of words that are often uncountable listening game

Nouns which have different meanings when they are uncountable and when they are countable review, making the meanings clear and memorable through sketches.

-ys and -ies ending review, including a simplest responses listening game, mazes,

Working out if nouns are singular or plural rapid guessing game

Using irregular plural nouns and regular plural nouns to tell stories.

Easy presentation task for irregular plural nouns and regular plural nouns.

Two plural nouns TPR games, with easier plurals, more difficult plurals and words which always take -s like "trousers", with students racting to identify the mime and/ or do suitable actions.

Singular, regular plural and irregular plural practice through a personal questions game, with points for the right answer, including easier and more challenging versions, a grammar presentation, and one more optional game.

Problems with countable nouns and problems with uncountable nouns to discuss.

Discussing if one or more is better for Valentine's Day, trying to remember the plural forms, then generalising about how to make regular and irregular plurals from singular nouns

Irregular plural nouns speaking and grammar presentation, including discussing the best options for Xmas and useful Xmas vocabulary.