Countable and uncountable nouns

The form: 10

The theme of the lesson: Countable and uncountable nouns.

Aims:

Educational: to practice students in monological and dialogical speech, to teach students to work creatively and introduce new words, expressions according to the theme.

Developing: to enrich children’s memory and logical thinking, to develop creativity doing exercises.

Bringing up: to bring up pupils to love for foreign language, promoting interest in the culture.

Level: elementary

The type of the lesson: lesson-combination.

Inter subject connection: Russian, Kazakh.

The visual and teaching aids: a basic textbook, cards.

Organization moment: (2 min)

• Greeting

Good morning. How are you? I am glad to see you! Now children let’s begin our lesson. Who is on duty today?

Who is absent today?

What day of the week today?

What is the weather like today?

What season is it now?

Take out your books, pens and copybooks. Get ready for the lesson.

What date is it today?

Everyone open your exercise-books and write down the date.

• Warming up activity (2 min)

Let's begin our lesson with a phonetic drill.

Three things you might know about sleep.

Checking HW (5 min):

1. The new words.

2. The grammar rules.

3. Text for good reading and translating.

Presentation of the new theme: (15 min)

Countable and uncountable nouns

(исчисляемые и неисчисляемые существительные)
Nouns can be countable (those that can be counted) or uncountable (those that can’t counted). Существительные могут быть как исчисляемыми, так и неисчисляемыми.

К исчисляемым существительным (countable) относятся названия предметов, которые можно пересчитать. Они употребляются как в единственном, так и во множественном числе:

Carol wants an apple. Кэрол хочет яблоко.
Carol has seven (a few, enough, У Кэрол семь (немного, достаточно,

some, several, a lot of, many) friends. несколько, много) друзей.

С исчисляемыми существительными употребляются как неопределенный, так и определенный артикли: a ship, the ship, the ships

К неисчисляемым существительным (uncountable) относятся названия предметов, которые нельзя пересчитать. К ним принадлежит существительные вещественные и отвлеченные.

- Uncountable nouns take a singular verb. В английском языке есть ряд неисчисляемых существительных, которые принимаются только в единственном числе, они не имеют формы множественного числа. Эти существительные не употребляются с неопределённым артиклем, могут определяться местоимениями much, little, some, any, a piece of. Глагол-сказуемое после этих существительных всегда стоит в единственном числе (is, was).

The most uncountable nouns are:

• Mass nouns: fluids (beer, blood, coffee, milk, tea, water, wine, etc), solids (bread, butter, cheese, china, coal, food, fruit, glass, ice, iron, fish [meaning food], silver, etc), gasses (air, oxygen, pollution, smoke, smog, etc), particles (corn, dust, flour, hair, paper, pepper, rice, salt, sand, sugar, etc).Bread is more than just a food.

• Subjects of study: chemistry, economics, literature, mathematics, physics, phonetics, etc.

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics.

• Languages: Chinese, English, French, etc.

• Games: billiards, chess, golf, soccer, tennis, darts, etc.

• Disease: flu, measles, mumps, etc.

• Natural phenomena: darkness, grass, hail, heat, light, rain (but: the rains = season of continuous rain in tropical countries), humidity, thunder, snow, etc.

• Some abstract nouns: accommodation, advice, anger, applause, assistance, behaviour, business, chaos, countryside, courage, damage, dirt, education, evidence, excitement, fear, help, housework, homework, hope, information, intelligence, knowledge, leisure, life, love, luck, music, news, peace, permission, progress, seaside, shopping, traffic, trouble, truth, wealth, weather, work, etc.

• Collective nouns: baggage, cutlery, furniture, jewellery, luggage, machinery, money, rubbish, stationery, etc.

Practice: (15 min)

Ex. 22, 23 p 49-50 orally

Ex. 4,5,6, 7 p 50 writing

Homework. (2 min)

1. Ex.24 p.49

2. The new words

3. The grammar rules.

Conclusion. (2 min)

Our lesson is reaching the end. My dear, today you were very active and worked hard.

Your marks for today’ s lesson are…

Thank you! See you later!