Definition of nouns and types of nouns.

1. WHAT DO THESE WORDS HAVE IN
COMMON?

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
To
understand different types
of nouns.
To give examples of different
nouns.

3. NOUNS
 Naming
Words: objects, emotions and ideas.
 Proper Nouns-uses a capital letter. Names of
places and people.
 Common Nouns- nouns that do not use a
capital letter-they name general items.
E.g. The word person is a common noun.
Einstein is a proper noun.

4. 7 TYPES OF COMMON NOUNS
Concrete
nouns are physical.
They can be touched.
Abstract nouns cannot be touched
e.g. feelings, emotions, theories,
ideas.

5. TYPES OF COMMON NOUNS
Can you match the words to the definitions?
When you have finished think of your own
examples.

6. NOUNS
Count Nouns: can be counted. You can
have one or many.
Non-Count Nouns: Do not use
numbers.
Used with much (too much
money/traffic) and
doesn’t make sense
with many.

7. NOUNS
Mass Nouns: Usually non-count but can be
count in some circumstances.
Invairable Nouns: Only have one form, which can
be either singular or plural.

8. COLLECTIVE NOUNS
 Name
for a number of things as one
unit. A collective noun acts like a
singular.
The herd is on the
move.
The team is ready.

9. Some nouns can fit into more than one
category:
1. I watched the sheep as I drove past the
countryside.
2. Five sheep were wandering around the
countryside.
3. I saw a herd of sheep.
Often Collective Nouns are also non-count
nouns e.g. love.

10. Categorise the Nouns on the
tables.
Clues:
1) Can you count the noun?
2) If you can’t, do you use much or many before
the noun?
3) Do you use the same word for one (singular)
and more than one of the noun (plural).
5 minutes per table

11. Count NonNouns Count
Nouns
Mass Collective Invairable
Nouns Nouns
Nouns

12. Count
Nouns
Non-Count Mass
Nouns
Nouns
Collective Invairable
Nouns
Nouns
Pens
Money
Coffee
A school
of fish.
Houses
Peace
Sugar
A flock of Scissors
birds
Magazines Chess
Paint
A hockey snow
team.
Glasses

13. Count
Nouns
Non-Count Mass
Nouns
Nouns
Collective Invairable
Nouns
Nouns
pencils
hair
Swarm of rain
bees.
paper

14. ON YOUR PAPER
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3.
4.
5.
Create on outline Of your hand.
On each finger of your drawing:
write down one type of noun.
Define the noun.
Can you think of an example.
Swap it with the person sitting
next to you.

15. HOMEWORK
 Find
an example of each type of Noun.
 Write a comment on the blog-if you
don’t have a GMAIL account-email it to
me.

16. FIND THE NOUNS ON PAGE 35
Once
you’ve found the nouns can
you categorise the nouns.
Can you comment on the effects?

17. LOOK AT YOUR ENCYCLOPAEDIA
ARTICLE ON PAGE 39.
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6.
GMAP the text.
Mode Features
Find and categorise the nouns.
List the ideas in the text.
Find the quotations-are nouns used
in the quotes what are the effects.
Can you link the use of nouns to the
lexical-semantic framework?

18. PRONOUNS
 Replace
a noun.
 Personal Pronouns-replace a person.
I, you, we, she, he, they, them.
 Possessive Pronouns-Pronouns that show
possession-That’s mine, yours, theirs, hers,
his.
 Demonstrative Pronoun-Replace nouns that
point to objects e.g. this, that, those, these.
 Reflexive Pronouns- ends in self/selve e.g.
themselves, himself, herself. Used at the end of
a sentence/utterance-refers back to the noun
used as the start of the sentence.