Introductory ESL Lesson Plan: A/An With Nouns

This lesson is designed for beginner English learners looking to understand how to use the articles a/an with nouns. This lesson is also good for you to use as a review of professions and related vocabulary.

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1. N5.1 – A/An with nouns Lesson 1/1 Alternative Tags: articles, indefinite articles, determiners a house an animal I am a student Tennis is a sport ESL Lesson Plan
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3. Match the nouns and pictures B C a cat a house A a question a flower D
4. Match the nouns and pictures B C A a lemon a window a person D a chair
5. a book, a box, a table, a chair A noun is a person or thing a + noun = one thing a woman, a man, a child, a student a + noun = one person
6. Match the sentences and pictures B C A Henry works in a bank. That is a flower. This is an orange. There is a man in the swimming pool. D
7. a flower, a bank, a question, a man Using a and an before nouns a + noun an apple, an elephant, an orange an + noun beginning with a / e / i / o / u
8. An with a / e / i / o /u A E I O U an apple an elephant an island an orange an umbrella
9. Your turn – use a or an with the nouns A airport B car C house D book E old book F jacket
10. Your turn – use a or an with the nouns A potato B computer C orange D man E hat F umbrella
11. hour and university an hour a university an hour not a hour (there is no ‘h’ sound) a university not an university (we say ‘yu’niversity)
12. Your turn – use a or an with the nouns A B C hour university horse D E angry man mountain
13. Match the pictures to sentences B C A A banana is a fruit. Alfred is a teacher. Blair is a florist. Basketball is a sport. D
14. Different ways to use a and an Paris is a city. A bee is an insect. That is a tall building. We use a/an to say what a person or thing is. We use a/an for jobs and professions. I am a student. Mike is an electrician. Jacob is a teacher.
15. What are these things? bird vegetable fruit sport A B C D a parrot a grapefruit broccoli football Example: Football is a sport.
16. What are these things? musical instrument sport tool cooking utensil A B C D a clarinet a screwdriver a grater hockey
17. What are these things? mountain planet country city A B C D Mont Blanc The USA Saturn London
18. What does each person do? plumber surgeon shop assistant A Jane B Alex C Sylvia Example: Jane is a surgeon.
19. What does each person do? truck driver police officer architect A Andrew B Jake C Julie
20. What does each person do? teacher photographer dentist A Donald B Sarah C Andrea
21. What does each person do? electrician hairdresser artist A Ravi B Tom C Jenny
22. Make sentences using a or an Picasso was… Napoleon was… Tchaikovsky was… Shakespeare was… Mark Twain was… Elizabeth I was… English queen. Spanish painter. French emperor. American writer. English writer. famous composer. a / an
23. Make sentences using a/an + a noun 1. Alex wants to learn a foreign language. 2. Trish works in __________. 3. Stuart can ride __________. foreign language supermarket motorcycle
24. Make sentences using a/an + a noun 4. Tomorrow we are going to __________. 5. The student wants to ask __________. 6. It’s raining outside so please take _________. umbrella question birthday party
25. What are these things? musical instrument fireman animal tool John goat hammer French Ferrari piano is a/an language car
26. Use a or an 7. Florence is a designer and an artist. 8. Birmingham is ____ city in England. 9. ___ orange has vitamin C. 10. Mercury is ___ small planet. 11. I am ___ student at ___ university in Spain. 12. William is waiting for ___ bus.
27. Make sentences using a/an + a noun 13. Tennis is __________. 14. You can take pictures with __________. 15. You use __________ to understand the meaning of a new word. camera sport dictionary
28. Make sentences using a/an + a noun 16. Look! I can see __________ in the sky. 17. He jumped on the chair because he saw __________. 18. The Nile is __________ in Africa. river plane mouse
29. What are they doing? game song orange A Melissa is singing… B Robyn is eating… C Chris is playing…
30. What are they doing? picture email avocado A Mike is writing… B Rachel is painting… C Helen is cutting…
31. Make sentences about famous people 19. Einstein was a scientist. 20. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was… 21. Louis XVI was… 22. Michelangelo was… 23. Ella Fitzgerald was… scientist painter writer French king singer
32. Make your own sentences A Madonna D elm C Earth F volleyball E Italy B potato