(1) Pick out all the nouns in this story. There are 15 different nouns in it.

To cure a headache
A man went into a chemist’s shop and said “I want something for a very bad headache.”
The chemist took a bottle from a shelf, held it under the man’s nose and opened it. The smell
was so strong that tears came into the man’s eyes and ran down his cheeks.
“What did you do that for?” he said angrily, as soon as he could get back his breath.
“But that medicine has cured your headache, hasn’t it?” said the chemist.
‘You fool,’ said the man. ‘It’s my wife that has the headache, not me!’

(2) Draw a table and write the common nouns in one column, and the proper nouns in another
column.

A visit to London
Last tuesday henry brown took his son jeremy, richard and mark to london. They live fifty miles
from london in a small town called greenfields. They went by train. It was an electric train with
eight carriages.
‘Here’s a non-smoking carriage,’ mr brown said. ‘There are four seats over there.’ He opened
the carriage door, and they got in.
The train was a fast one. It didn’t stop at knightstown, sandfields, parsley or didcombe. But it
stopped at starwood new town. Some people got off there, and a porter put some bags of
letters and parcels into the van. An old lady got into the carriage. She had a bag with her name
and address on it. mrs m. smith, northwood street, croydon, surrey. Ten minutes later they
came into waterloo station and very soon they were out in the busy streets.
‘Come on, boys, we’ll take a bus now.’ They found a big red bus marked London bridge. ‘That’s
the bus we want,’ said mr brown and the boys hurried up the stairs and on to the top of the
bus. As they went along, mr brown pointed out places and things for them to see. ‘This is
westminster bridge and there are the houses of parliament. We are crossing london’s river
now, the thames, and just over there is Westminster abbey.
‘What’s that monument on the bank of the river?’ asked richard. ‘That’s cleopatra’s needle. It
came from egypt.’ ‘And what’s that building in the distance with the golden cross on
top?’‘That’s st paul’s cathedral,’ said mr brown. ‘It was built by the great architect sir
christtopher wren.’ ‘I want to see the tower of london,’ said jeremy. ‘We’ll see that after lunch,’
said his father. ‘Where are we going for lunch?’ asked mark. ‘I didn’t eat much breakfast; I was
too excited.’ ‘We’ll have lunch at a place I know in fleet street. Here it is, the cheshire cheese.
We must get off the bus here.’