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YEAR 4 - UNIT 11: LET’S CELEBRATE
5 SEPTEMBER 2017 THE STAR/Step Up
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Articles ENGLISH has two articles: ‘the’ and ‘a/an’. • ‘The’ is used to refer to specific nouns • ‘A/an’ is used for non-specific nouns. ‘The’ is known as the definite article. ‘A’ and ‘an’ are known as indefinite articles. • If you say, “Let’s read the book,” you mean a specific book you have in mind. For example, The King of Kites. • If you say, “Let’s read a book,” you mean any book (a poetry book, Gulliver’s Travels, or The King of Kites) rather than a specific book. Let’s practise using articles with a game called ‘Simon Says’. How to play: • In order to play this game, each student will prepare three sentences using any of the following articles (a, an, the). • Everyone submits their three sentences on a piece of paper to the teacher who will read out each sentence. • Now everyone stands up to carry out the action that your teacher will read out. • But here’s the catch: you must carry out the action only if your teacher starts the sentence with “Simon says…” • If she does not start her sentence with “Simon says…”, and you carry out the action, then you are out of the game. You will have to be seated. • Everyone (including your teacher) can judge this game. Types of sentences to write for this activity: • Sentences you write have to be something that can be carried out logically in the classroom (or venue) where your English lesson is held. • Examples of sentences you can write: - “Look at the teacher”, - “Point at the tallest student” or - “Wink at a student”. • Don’t write a sentence like: “Touch the student” (because you wouldn’t know which student to touch). So listen carefully - not just for the instruction but also for which article is used. Good luck!
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