Show the leaners the the list of nouns. After hearing their ideas, explain what concrete nouns are, and ask leaners if they can see or find any other examples in the classroom. Explain what abstract nouns are and ask for any other examples.
Next, ask the learners to work in pairs and small groups. Copy down the table and decide which nouns are concrete or abstract. Check the answers as a whole class.
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To explore the meaning of simple, everyday nouns, and how they relate to your experience of the world.
Look at this list of nouns: chair, fork, dog, house, person, football player
What do they all have in common?
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Explain to the learners that nouns can refer to male or female people. In language, this difference is called gender.
Ask learners to copy down the list and add the nouns of the oppsite gender. Show them the solutions and ask them what patterns they notice. Answer: some are completely different words while others use a suffix to change the meaning.
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To explore the meaning of gender in nouns.
What's the difference between the words mother and father?
Nouns for people can refer to a man or a male such as father or to a woman or female such as mother .
In language, we call this difference gender.
For each noun, write the word that expresses the opposite gender: