Grammar - Nouns 5V - 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Welcome!

Road map

• Planning block 4
• BBC One Minute World News - Practice your WLS
• Grammar: nouns
• Work on assignments

Important dates

• 3 June: GRO-test Chapter 8 (5%)
• 9 and 10 June: Watching and listening test (10%)
• 10 June: hand in your final reading list (oral = 12%)
•  16 - 22 June: test week, you will be tested on 

                      1. Literature: Arthurian legend  (8%)

                      2. Reading skills (12%)  

                       

Practice

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Important dates

Practise your reading skills on your own:

• text 1 (2014-1) should be finished by 20 May
• text 2 (2015-1) should be finished by 10 June

BBC One minute world news

Guiding questions:

1. What is the name of the Russian flagship?

2. What is said to be cause of the fire on board the Moskva?

3. What was the 'scuffle' between the white officer and the black man about?

4. How many people have died in the South African floods?

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Lesson Goal

At the end of this class you can:  

• recognise common nouns, abstract nouns, proper nouns, and collective nouns
• describe the difference between countable and uncountable nouns. 

Imporant because:

you can use the techniques in your letters and essays (Part of the 5H PTA). 

Find Harry's nouns

Holdin' me back

Gravity's holdin' me back

I want you to hold out the palm of your hand

Why don't we leave it at that?

Nothin' to say

When everything gets in the way

Seems you cannot be replaced

And I'm the one who will stay,

Find the nouns

’

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

      And the mome raths outgrabe.

The Jabberwocky -  Lewis Carroll

Different sorts of nouns

• common noun - a goose, a cat, a man, a woman
• proper noun - Klaas, Appie
• abstract noun - honesty, world peace, faith
• collective noun - family, team, crowd

Countable nouns:

• can get the indefinite article 'a'
• singular and plural - one goose, two geese
•  thus: they can be counted!
• often something tangible and concrete

Uncountable nouns:

• cannot get the indefinite article 'a'
• no (direct) plural form 
•  thus: they cannot be counted!
• material /abstract nouns

E.g. Water needs a glass!

Quantifiers 

In vragende of ontkennende zinnen:

Much: uncountable nouns (e.g. money, information, time)

Many: countable nouns 

A lot of/lots of: bij bevestigende zinnen bij alle nouns! 

 

Quantifiers 

Much: bij zelfstandige naamwoord

Few : countable nouns

There were few men willing to fight in the war

Little : uncountable nouns

There is little information available on that topic

Quantifiers 

a few : countable nouns

There were a few cows grazing in the field 

a little : uncountable nouns

Put a little love in your heart!

Quantifiers 

Few horses remained in the paddock after cowboys had raided the ranch =  not many horses, emphasis on what is lacking! 'Weinig'

There are a few horses left of what once was a very large herd = small number, emphasis on what there is! 'een paar'

Quantifiers 

We had little time to prepare for the test.

=  emphasis on the fact that there is not a lot of time. 'weinig'

We had a little time to prepare for the test.

= emphasis on the fact that there still is time to prepare for the test albeit not a lot. 'een beetje'

A few/A little

Dutch: 'een paar' & 'een beetje'. Nadruk op het kleine beetje dat er wel is (het glas is half vol)

Vorm: a little/a few + Zelfstandig nw.

Een beetje wijn                                   A little wine

Een paar leerlingen                           A few pupils

Few/Little

Dutch variant is 'weinig'. Nadruk op het feit dat er weinig is (het glas is half leeg).

Vorm: little/few + Zelfstandig nw.

Weinig wijn                                          Little wine

Weinig leerlingen                              Few pupils

Gebruik "Many/Much" bij

ontkennende en vragende zinnen.

O: I haven't got much time.

V: How much money do you need?

O: I don't have many friends.

v: How many copies do you need?

Gebruik  "A lot of" of "lots of" bij

bevestigende zinnen

B:  Dagobert Duck has a lot of money.

B: Students generally spend lots of time on their homework.

B:  John has got lots of work to do.

B: I have got lots of Facebook friends.

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Tuesday 19 April

Finish Chapter 8 assignments 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in your workbook or the ex. belonging to Grammar 1.4.A. 

Study the theory either on Learnbeat or in your book (pp. 118 -120)