1. ELT
How to teach nouns?
Session conducted
By
Dr. Nicholas Correa
Director, New Horizon Scholars School
2. Nouns are names or naming words.
A noun is a name of a person, a
place, a thing, an idea or a quality
3. Person Place Things Ideas
/Quality
John Mumbai desk Freedom
Ramesh Tokyo pen Kindness
Rachna New York cow Hunger
4. Noun Activity:
Decorate your banker’s box with pictures of persons, places, and
things. Ask your students what items could be placed inside this
box and have them write that word on the board Next ask your
students, who buys these items and have them write those words
on the board. Finally ask your students where do these people go
to buy the items they have written on the board.
Now go back and review the words on the board and see what
they have in common. Students will categorize the items that fit
in the box as things. Then the people words as persons and
where to buy as places. The teachers should help with the terms
to fit the category if students have trouble. The teacher will then
communicate to the students that these three categories are
known as nouns.
6. Kinds of nouns:
Nouns can be broadly divided into two kinds.
•Proper noun
•Common noun
Proper nouns:
•Name of a person
•Name of a place
•Names of the days & months
Common Nouns
•Concrete noun
•Countable noun
•Uncountable noun
•Collective noun
•Abstract noun
•Collective noun
7. A
Proper Nouns
A proper noun is a name of a
particular person, place or thing
(names of days, months, etc)
E.g. David, London, Wednesday, June.
First letter of all proper nouns is
written in capital letters.
8. Common nouns: The words which refer to the
names of things. Example: book, star, vase, mirror,
B etc. There are three kinds
1. Concrete nouns: The words or names or
things which one can see and touch through our
five senses are called concrete nouns.
Example: student, bag, dog, etc.
a. Countable nouns: The names or words or
things which can be counted are countable
nouns. Example: pen, desk, building, etc
b. Uncountable: nouns The names or words or
things which can be measured but cannot be
counted one by one. Example: water, oil, flour,
etc
9. 2. Abstract nouns: The words or
names or things which one can feel
or express are called abstract nouns.
Example: sweet, pain, kindness,
freedom, etc.
3. Collective nouns: The names or
words which refer to a group or
collection of people, creatures or things.
Example: a crowd, a flock of sheep, a
bunch of bananas.
