TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES General Statements

Activity Type Introduction

Matching and speaking In this productive teaching activity, students play a card game
activity, group work where they make general statements with and without articles.

Procedure
Language Focus
Demonstrate the activity by writing the first three nouns (car,
General statements with
dogs, gold) from the cards on the board. Ask the students to make
and without an article
general statements using the nouns with or without an article.

Examples:
Aim
A car has four wheels.
To make general
Dogs make great pets.
statements with and
Gold is expensive.
without articles.
Afterwards, revise the use of articles in general statements with
the students.
Preparation
'a' with singular countable nouns, e.g. a car.
Make one copy of the
No article with plural nouns, e.g. dogs.
article cards and noun
No article with uncountable nouns, e.g. gold.
cards for each group of
three or four. Cut the Next, divide the class into groups of three or four. Give each group
cards out as indicated, a set of article cards and a set of noun cards.
keeping the two sets
separate. Ask the students to shuffle the article cards and deal them out
evenly and to shuffle the noun cards and place them face down in
a pile on the desk.
Level
Tell the students to look at their article cards. Explain that the (-)
Elementary symbol means 'no article'.

One student goes first and turns over the top noun card from the
Time pile and places it face up on the desk. The student then tries to
make a general statement using the noun and one of his or her
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article cards.

If the student can make a general statement, he or she puts

the matching article card next to the noun card and says the
statement. The two cards are then removed from the game.

If the student cannot make a general statement, the noun card is

put back at the bottom of the pile and the student misses a turn.

If the other students think a statement is incorrect, they can

challenge the student.

The next student then turns over a noun card and so on.

The first student to get rid of all their article cards wins the game.

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ESL / EFL RESOURCES General Statements

Article Cards

a a a a

a a a a

a a a a

a a a a

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Noun Cards

car dogs gold wood

tyres restaurant computer fan

paper school homework heat

bag ice books table

traffic map water candle

snake games shop eggs

teachers food pen hair

trees key city furniture

oranges bottle money photograph

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