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Irregular Plurals Reversi

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

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.

By: Alex Case
Level: All Levels
Theme: General
Study Area: Nouns
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Lesson Plan Content:


Irregular plurals reversi memory game

 

Instructions for teachers

Cut up one pack of cards per group of two to four students, leaving the two halves of one card with the singular and plural still joined to each other (i.e. don’t cut out each individual square of the table). Give out the cards and ask students to fold them so that one side has the singular and the other side has the plural and put them anywhere they like on the table, either side top.

One student chooses a card and says what they think is on the other side, perhaps saying “One…” with the singular version and “Some…” with the plural version to help them check. They turn the card over to check, leaving it the other way up. They continue doing this with other cards until they give up or make a mistake. If they make a mistake before they give up, then they can’t take any of the cards that they guessed correctly and all those cards stay on the table for the next person to try (but the other way round as they are now upside down). If they give up before making any mistakes, they can keep score one point for each card that they correctly guessed the other side of. The next person then does the same (with cards that other people tried before, new ones that anyone hasn’t tried yet, or probably a mix of both kinds). Each time, they can quit after just one card or (theoretically) continue until the whole table is cleared in one go, but they lose all the points from that round if they make a mistake. After all the cards have been taken or you stop the game, they can write “one” and “some” on the right side of each card and/ or test each other on the plurals orally using an un-cut-up copy of the worksheets.

 

Cards to cut up

Elementary and Pre-Intermediate

 

man

 

 

men

 

woman

 

women

 

people

 

 

person

 

child

 

children

 

feet

 

 

foot

 

postman

 

postmen

 

schoolchild

 

 

schoolchildren

 

teeth

 

tooth

 

mice

 

 

mouse

 

goldfish

 

goldfish

 

Intermediate and Upper Intermediate

 

loaf

 

 

loaves

 

deer

 

deer

 

millennia

 

 

millennium

 

series

 

series

 

media

 

 

medium

 

crises

 

crisis

 

alumni

 

 

alumnus

 

axes

 

axis

 

sheep

 

 

sheep

 

steelworks

 

steelworks

 

means

 

 

means

 

aircraft

 

aircraft

 

Advanced

 

innings

 

 

innings

 

analyses

 

analysis

 

phenomena

 

phenomenon

 

theses

 

thesis

 

 

bacteria

 

 

bacterium

 

stimuli

 

stimulus

 

species

 

 

species

 

lice

 

louse

 

spacecraft

 

spacecraft

 

 

oases

 

oasis

 

wild boar

 

 

wild boar

 

biceps

 

biceps


 

moose

 

 

moose

 

corpora

 

corpus

 

faux pas

 

faux pas

 

 

larva

 

larvae

 

neuroses

 

neurosis

 

 

nuclei

 

nucleus

 

strata

 

 

stratum

 

vertebra

 

vertebrae

 

rendezvous

 

rendezvous

 

 

loci

 

locus

 

ox

 

oxen

 

 

swine

 

swine

 

starfish

 

 

starfish

 

errata

 

erratum

 

salmon

 

salmon

 

 

reindeer

 

reindeer

 

woodlice

 

 

woodlouse

 

tuna

 

tuna

 

squid

 

 

squid

 

mackerel

 

mackerel

 

cod

 

 

cod

 

criteria

 

criterion

 

diagnoses

 

diagnosis

 

 

caribou

 

caribou

 

prognosis

 

 

prognoses

 

koi

 

koi

 

samurai

 

 

samurai

 

synopsis

 

synopses

 

otaku

 

 

otaku

 

automata

 

automaton

 

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