1. Pedagogical Grammar Singular/Plural
Presented by:
Samar and Roaa
Presented to: Prof. Penny Ur

2. Definitions:
A noun is the part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive.
Singular indicates one noun.
Plural indicates two or more.
Count-nouns are part of the speech that can be formed into plural.
Non-count nouns: you cannot add a number to the front or an s to the end of these words

3. Rules
To change a noun from singular to plural, we usually add s at the end of the noun
We add es if the noun ends with s, ss, ch, sh, x or z.
If the noun ends with consonant+ y, we drop the y and add ”ies”.
But if the noun ends with vowel+ y, we only add “s”.
If the noun ends with “f”, we change the “f” into “v” then we add “es”.
There are some exceptions to the rules.

4. Introduction: T. shows two boxes and shakes them.
Box A includes only one item. Box B includes several from the same item.
The teacher elicits questions from the pupils who are trying to guess what is in the boxes. Using “Is there….?” and “Are there…?”.
The teacher opens the boxes and presents the objects, saying a ….. and the plural.

5. Junior High Learners with Learning Disabilities
Pupils watch the video from youtube:
The teacher can pause when needed.
After watching the video teacher asks the pupils to watch it again , but this time they have to pay attention to the rule.
For practice pupils get a worksheet.

6. Elementary school pupils
Pupils listen and watch the song from youtube:
Teacher plays the song again and asks the students to pay attention to the different articles.

7. practice
Interactive practice: pupils have to drag the answer to the right spot.

8. Theoretical background
We based our teaching on the implicit teaching, noticing and focus-on form theories, Where we wanted the pupils to find out the rules on their own.

9. References http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/noncountnoun.htm