LESSON PLAN

Direction régionale du Centre-oueer

Direction provinciale : Boulkiemdé
School: CEG DE NANDIALA CENTRE
Date: 30/01/24
Level: Form 1

Boys :
Size: Absentees:
Girls :
40
Lesson taught by: Mr.Yaro
Duration: 55 mns
Nature of the lesson: Grammar
Title: Plural of nouns
Aim: To familiarize students with the plural of nouns for their daily use.
Objectives: By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
1. Give orally some nouns in singular and their plural form;
2. Match some sentences with their plural form;
3. Put singular nouns in the plural form.
Prerequisites: Students have already been taught cardinal numbers.
Anticipated problems: Students may have difficulties with the irregular plural.
Anticipated solutions: The teacher will lay emphasis on it.
 Stage I: Presentation (14mns)
Step 1: greeting
Teacher: Good morning class
Pupils: good morning sir
Teacher: how are you?
Pupils: fine and you?
Teacher: I’m fine too. Thank you very much and sit down.
Step 2: date telling and writing
Teacher: what’s the day today?
Pupils: today is ………………………
Teacher: very good, come and write it on the board!
Pupils: …………………..
Step 3: Warm-up
Teacher: class , stand-up. We are going to sing.
Step 4: Announcement of the lesson (1mn)
Teacher: Today, we are going to see a Grammar lesson on plural of regular nouns.
(Teacher then writes the nature and the title of the lesson on the board.)
GRAMMAR: Plural of nouns
TEACHER: (writing on the board): Here are some words
1- Teacher 1- Teachers
2- Day 2- Days
3- Half 3- Halves
4- Baby 4- Babies
5- Bus 5- Buses
TEACHER: What is the difference between sentences in right and those in left?
Pupils’ expected answer: There is S at the end of the right words.
TEACHER: Very good! So, what Can we Say?
Pupils: the words at the right are in plural form and at the left in singular form
Teacher: how to form the plural form of a noun?
PUPIL: We form the plural of nouns by adding an “-s” to the singular.
TEACHER: Fantastic! (While writing on the board, the teacher says) In general, we form the plural of
nouns by adding an “-s” to the singular form. But, we have many forms of plural of nouns that I will
summarize through the following chart:
SINGULAR FORM PLURAL FORM
House, car, hen… Houses, cars, hens
 Names ending with “-s, -sh, -ch, and –x
e.g.: Bus, brush, match, box Buses, brushes, matches, boxes
Names ending in “-y” preceded by a consonant have
their plural in “-ies”
e.g.: Baby, country Babies, countries
Names ending in “-y” preceded by a vowel have their
plural in “-s”
e.g.: Day, boy
Days, boys
The following nouns form their plural in “-ves”:
Half, shelf, knife, wolf, thief, calf, life, leaf, life, loaf, Halves, shelves, knives, wolves, thieves, calves,
self, wife
Lives, leaves, lives, loaves, selves, wives
Apart from these, nouns ending in “f” take an “s” in the
plural form
Chiefs, roofs
e.g.: Chief; roof

NOTE:
- The nouns, fish, sheep, deer do not take an “-s” in the plural form
- Irregular plurals: man = men; woman = women; foot = feet; tooth = teeth; mouse = mice; child =
children

STAGE II: PRACTICE (16mns)

Step 1: Oral activity: (4mns)

TEACHER: Listen carefully, I will pronounce a noun in singular and you give me the plural
form:
Coat (Expected answer: coats)
Kiss (Expected answer: kisses)
Fox (Expected answer: Foxes)
Boss (Expected answer: Bosses)
Cliff (Expected answer: Cliffs)
Step 2: Written activity (individually) (5mns)
TEACHER: Individually, match the following singular nouns with their plural:
Race Countries
 Boots Races
Mouth Mice
County Loads
Load Boots
Boat Counties
Mouths
Step 3: CORRECTION (7mns)
TEACHER: Please, stop writing and exchange your exercise copy books for the correction. I need
volunteers to come and correct.
Expected answers from students:
Boot – Boots
Mouth – Mouths
County – Counties
Load – Loads
TEACHER: Very good answers!! Now that you have finished marking, return the copy book to your
neighbor.
TEACHER: Who has got 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 1/4 (The teacher do it while praising those who got the
average). Those who did not get at least two answers right, you can do better.

STAGE III: PRODUCTION (25 mns)

Step1: pair work (7mns)

TEACHER:
With your neighbour replace the nouns between brackets with their plural:
We went to visit the desert. There, we saw many (calf). We saw that the (roof) of the houses were
made with herb. When we wanted to drink, there were no (glass), we drunk in (calabash). They told
us that there are (camel) in the desert but no (deer).
Step2: Correction and assessment (8mns)
TEACHER: Stop writing, we are going to correct. I need volunteers to read their work.
Expected answer:
CALVES - ROOFS- GLASSES – CALABASHES – CAMELS – DEER
The teacher praises the groups who gave good answers and invites a student to come and put the
answers on the board.
Step3: Follow up (1mn)
TEACHER: Here is an exercise to be done at home
Instruction: Build five sentences with on classroom objects using the plural form of their names.
Step 4: Note taking and administrative duties (8mns)
Step5: Closing (1mn)
TEACHER: Thank you for your participation to today’s class. Don’t forget doing your homework for
next class. Goodbye, class!
STUDENTS: Goodbye, Sir!