An apple a day keeps

the doctor away

ARTICLES
An article is a word
used to modify a
noun ARTICLES

Noun Indefinite Definite

A person,
place, object
or idea

‘a’ ‘an’ ‘the’

 Indefinite Article
‘A’ & ‘An’

•We use ‘A’ and ‘An’ before singular

countable nouns.
A single noun that can be
count
 ‘A’ or ‘An’
The difference depends on the sound at
the beginning of the next word
‘A’ is used before words ‘An’ is used before words
which begin with a which begin with a VOWEL
CONSONANT sound sound

A dog An aeroplane
A kennel An envelope
A lemon An insect

A frog
An orange

A bench

An umbrella
 Be careful. The sound of the letter is
important.
The H at the
HOUR An hour beginning of ‘hour’
is silent and
sounded like an O

UNIVERSITY A university The U at the

beginning of
‘university’ sounds
like a Y
We use ‘A’ & ‘An’ for the unsure things we
are referring to

I saw a priest in the temple.

A priest came to me yesterday.

 Definite Article
‘The’

•We use ‘The’ when we are exactly

sure of what we are referring to.
Refers to particular Refers to only one of Refers to Proper
person, thing or something Noun- name of river,
group countries and
mountains
• The Milky Way
• Do drink the • The Universe
soup while it is • The Galaxy • The Yellow River
still warm. • The Himalayas
• The mobile • The People’s
phone became Republic of
faulty after Jane China
dropped it
several times.
 The Zero Article
Nouns that do not take any articles at all

Do not use articles for plural Do not use articles before the
countable nouns and name of continents
uncountable nouns

• Lisa enjoys reading storybooks • Malaysia

• Taking too much salt is bad for • Europe
us • Asia
• Mother added extra sugar into
her drink
 We also do not use articles for

X Names of languages and nationality

X Names of sports
X Names of academic subjects
X Names of lakes
X Names of streets
GAMES
 ACTIVITY
Take a look on the handouts given to you. Look
carefully at each of the pictures shown. Construct
a short paragraph to describe the picture by using
the articles that you have learnt before [‘a’, ‘an’
and ‘the’].
This is an airport. There
is an aeroplane that is
getting ready for a take-
off behind the large
window. A boy is sitting
on a luggage while
waving to his mother.
He is wearing a cap.
 This is a park in my
neighbourhood. The
park is located in the
middle of my
neighbourhood area.
Aunty May is reading a
book. There is a dog
wandering around the
park. Uncle Billy and his
wife are sitting on a
bench while enjoying
the sunset view.