1. DESIGN FOR RIO 2: SINGULAR and PLURAL Noun
No. Section Content details Glossary
I. Content Item
1 Introduction
2 Learning OUTLINE 1: INTRODUCTION .
Information
 in the above screen, the instructor and the student are inside the car, the instructor will
introduce the topic and singular and plural form as follows:
 Instructor: Welcome to part of speech town, I’m so glad you’ve won the types of
noun race challange.
 today, we are going to learn about singular and plural nouns.
 I’ll show how to tell the difference between singular and plural nouns as I’m driving
in the part of speech town
 Then, you ‘ll get a chance show me your how much you’ve learned as you are driving
the car in the part of a speech town.
 Student:Ok

2.  Instructor: there are two categories of nouns, singular and plural
 Instructor: a singular noun is a noun used to represent one person, place or thing.
 Instructor: a plural noun is used to represent two or more persons, places or things.
 Instructor: As I said before, nouns either represent people, places, or things.
 Instructor: examples of singular nouns would be:
Boy
Field
Book
 Instructor: these are all examples of singular nouns
 Instructor: now let’s list some examples of plural nouns
Boys
Fields
Books
OUTLINE 2: Exploring singular and plural nouns
In this screen the instructor will more elaborate on the deference between singular and plural
nouns as follows:

3.  Instructor: you should notice that plural nouns have “s” at the end of each word.
Singular nouns do NOT have “s” at the end. Let’s try a few more examples:
Student. A student is a person, but the word doesn’t have “s” at the end so it must
be a
 Student: singular noun
 Instructor: That’s right, now markets are places, but the word doesn’t have “s” at the
end so it must be a
 Instructor: plural noun
 Instructor: Good job! Ok, try this one: school!
 Student: schools are places, so that tells me it’s a noun and it has “s” at the end so
that also tells me it’s a plural noun
 Instructor: you’re doing wonderful! Let’s move on to things.
 Instructor: the word computer represents a thing and has no “s” at the end. So the
word is a
 Student: singular noun
 Student: but if we are to talk about computers that would be a plural noun because
we are talking about many things.
 Instructor: Wow! I think you’re ready to start doing this on your own and just in time
too

4. OUTLINE 3: Activity Walkthrough
In this screen the instructor gives an overview on the activity session and what students will face
during the next session.
II. Practice/Interactive Activity
1 Practice/Activity ACTIVITY ON singular and plural nouns
Items

5.  Instructor: Ok, here we are at the beginning of the Spotting singular and plural
Nouns Race.
 Instructor: you will start over here
 Instructor: use your mouse to click on the car starting here to get started
 Instructor: I will read both words for you and tell you if you need to click on the
singular noun or plural noun in the question.
 Instructor: make sure you click the correct answer at each stop .
 Instructor: here we go
 Student:
Answer – Princess Jasmine
Question – Policeman : Balls
Answer – policeman
Question – holidays : New Years Day
Answer - holidays

6. Question – Messenger : boys
Answer – boys
Question – Toyota : cars
Answer – Cars
Question – Kings : city
Answer – Kings