There is and there are plus countable nouns games for young learners
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Seven simple and fun there is and there are activities for kids, including suggested phrases
Lesson Plan Content:
There is and are plus countable nouns games for young learners
Play the game or games below which your teacher tells you to. Your teacher will tell you if, when and/ or how you can use the table on the next page below to help.
Game 1
Listen to a “How many…?” question about the classroom from your teacher or from a student. Run and touch those things as you count them, then race to sit down.
Game 2
Throw a ball at something in this room and ask “How many… are there in this room?” about that thing. You will get the number of points of the number in the answer to that question, e.g. six points if the answer is “There are six posters” after you hit a poster. You get no points if someone has already asked the same question.
Game 3
Ask your partner a personal “How many… are there… your…?” You will get the number of points of the number in the answer, e.g. four points if your partner says “There are four chairs in my kitchen” if you ask about that. If the answer is “I don’t know”, you get no points.
Game 4
Ask your partner “How many…?” questions. You get one point for each “I don’t know” answer. Each question must be about a different thing and about a different place. If that question is impossible to answer, e.g. because your partner doesn’t have a brother, you don’t get any points.
Game 5
Think of a personal “How many… are there … your…?” question and write down the number which you think your partner will say. Ask the question and compare their answer to what you wrote. If you were right, you get that many points.
Game 6
Ask personal “How many…?” questions to find things which are the same for you and for your partner, for example that you both have two brothers.
Game 7
Ask personal “How many…?” questions to find things which are more for you than for your partner, for example that you have three lamps and your partner only has two.
When your teacher stops you, ask about anything in the table below which you aren’t sure about, working together to ask and answer questions using those words each time. Then play the different game above which your teacher tells you to.
Suggested How many are there questions
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How many
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are there |
in on under next to near in front of behind |
your your aunt’s your brother’s your coach’s your cousin’s your dad’s your daughter’s your dentist’s your doctor’s your grandfather’s your grandmother’s your house’s your mum’s your music teacher’s your school teacher’s your sister’s your son’s your sports teacher’s your uncle’s |
bag bathroom bedroom body bookshelves box car city classroom country cupboard/ closet/ wardrobe dining room floor/ carpet fridge/ refrigerator garden gym/ sports centre hall/ corridor home/ house kitchen library pocket(s) roof school school classroom locker wall wallet/ purse |
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the this that this building’s this room’s this school’s
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building whiteboard zoo street room classroom school noticeboard floor/ carpet wall |
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the nearest |
convenience store post office |
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