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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Match the nouns and pictures
B
C
a cat
a
house
A
a
question
a
flower
D
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Match the nouns and pictures
B
C
A
a lemon
a window
a
person
D
a
chair
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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
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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
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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
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An with a / e / i / o /u
A E I
O
U
an apple an elephant an island
an orange an umbrella
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Your turn – use a or an with the nouns
A
airport
B
car
C
house
D
book
E
old book
F
jacket
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Your turn – use a or an with the nouns
A
potato
B
computer
C
orange
D
man
E
hat
F
umbrella
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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)
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Your turn – use a or an with the nouns
A B C
hour university horse
D E
angry man mountain
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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
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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.
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What are these things?
bird vegetable fruit sport
A B C D
a parrot
a
grapefruit
broccoli football
Example: Football is a sport.
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What are these things?
musical
instrument
sport tool
cooking
utensil
A B C D
a clarinet
a
screwdriver
a grater hockey
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What are these things?
mountain planet country city
A B C D
Mont
Blanc The USA Saturn London
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What does each person do?
plumber surgeon
shop
assistant
A
Jane
B
Alex
C
Sylvia
Example: Jane is a surgeon.
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What does each person do?
truck driver police officer architect
A
Andrew
B
Jake
C
Julie
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What does each person do?
teacher photographer dentist
A
Donald
B
Sarah
C
Andrea
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What does each person do?
electrician hairdresser artist
A
Ravi
B
Tom
C
Jenny
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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
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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
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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
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What are these things?
musical
instrument
fireman
animal
tool
John
goat
hammer
French
Ferrari
piano
is a/an
language
car
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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.
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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
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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
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What are they doing?
game song orange
A
Melissa is
singing…
B
Robyn is
eating…
C
Chris is
playing…
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What are they doing?
picture email avocado
A
Mike is
writing…
B
Rachel is
painting…
C
Helen is
cutting…
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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
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Make your own sentences
A
Madonna
D
elm
C
Earth
F
volleyball
E
Italy
B
potato