unit 4 Period 6 (Grammar 2) practise

t: and what’s this? (show a picture of tea)                     s: it’s tea.
use pictures to teach tea, soup and salt.
t: you see, these are something we cannot count. so we call them uncountable nouns.
step 4 practice
do b1 on page 62.
check answers and then do b2. read millie and her mother’s conversation and write the underline nouns in the correct column of the table.
then check the answers.
step 5 presentation
show the students a picture of a cup of tea.
t: now please look at the screen. what’s this?                   ss: it’s tea.
t: yes, it is. and it’s a cup of tea. we can not say a tea, but a cup of tea. we can use nouns in front of uncountable nouns to show their amounts. let’s see some other examples.
show pictures of a glass of milk, a bowl of rice, a packet of salt one by one. ask the students to read these phrases.
then show a picture of meat. teach kilo and a kilo meat.
then show a picture of two or three glasses of milk. teach the plural forms of these phrases.
two bowls of rice three cups of tea four kilos of meat
five packets of salt students read these phrases together.
conclusion: a … of + uncountable nouns
show some other pictures. e.g. a bag of apples a box of eggs
two baskets of bananas
t: we can also use nouns in front of uncountable and countable nouns to show their amounts.
 step 6. exercises
do the exercise on page 63. read the conversation and fill in the blanks with a or an.
then check the answers.get students read the dialogue together.
 t: we use ‘a’ or ‘an’ before a singular countable noun. if the noun starts with a vowel sound, we use ‘an’. and in the word hour, the letter ‘h’ is silent and it starts with a vowel sound, we use ‘an’.
t: let’s see how many letters we can put ‘an’ before them. please think it over.
then check answers.
the letters are a, e, f, h, i, l, m, n, o, r, s, x.
step 8 production
t: we’ll have a party. we don’t have enough food or drinks. so we should go shopping. please work in pairs and make up a new dialogue about shopping.
choose several pairs to perform their dialogues in class.
homework
write down the dialogue discussed above.