Grammar focus 'Articles' (unit 4)

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Welcome to Mrs Everstijn's (online) classroom

Materials :

• Coursebook (p40)
• Pen, marker & paper = notes + answers
• (laptop)
  

Today's lesson:

• Recap articles
  
• Class work = Grammar exercise
  
• Individual work = courseware

Learning objectives:

• Students can use the proper form of articles.
  
• Students can explain in what cases a particular form of article is used.

Name the indefinite articles.

Name the definite articles.

Give an example in which you use zero articles.

Complete the senteces with the definite article (the), indefinite article (a/an) or zero article (-).

... future often brings surprises.

1. The
2. A
3. An
4. -

The climate is best in ... south-east of the country.

1. the
2. a
3. an
4. -

You'd better get out of ... bed - it's late.

1. the
2. a
3. an
4. -

I think you ought to have ... holiday.

1. the
2. a
3. an
4. -

Wait a minute - I'll just get my bag out of ... locker.

1. the
2. a
3. an
4. -

He's ... very keen cyclist.

1. the
2. a
3. an
4. -

... nurse who I saw first said that nothing was wrong.

1. The
2. A
3. An
4. -

The doctor said she was suffering from ... depression.

1. the
2. a
3. an
4. -

There'll be a special bus available for ... elderly.

1. the
2. a
3. an
4. -

I'm hoping to study ... business at university.

1. the
2. a
3. an
4. -

Alternative exercise 8:

1. Find an article on the assigned subject online
2. Read it.
   
3. Summarize it in 10 to 16 lines.
4. Hand summary in [e-mail]
   

Who:  

What: 

How:  

Help:  

Time: 

Result:

Done:  

individual

Read grammar focus page 146 + 147

Read + take notes in notebook.

Teacher (= raise virtual hand first)

15 minutes

Class check

Do exercises 1 & 5 + alternative 8 (CB p.40)

Alternative exercise 8: assigned topics

Beau	been afraid of a storm	Ouassim
Tara	been snowed in	Wassim
Wen Chang	had heatstroke	Kirst
Felix	been in a flood	Stan
Mateusz	skidded on a patch of ice	Naish
Stan	seen lightning strike	Shay
Thomas	lost their way in fog	Kiril
Jelle	been in or on a rough sea	Lucas / Sven

What do you do in order to get an idea of what the test is about quickly?

How many texts around the same theme do you need to read in part 7 'Multiple matching' of the exam?

What mark would you give yourself with reference to your input this week?

What will you change next week in order to improve on this mark?