Teaching with Poetry

countable and uncountable noun.
for foreign language junior high school students

1. Teaching Countable Nouns & Uncountable Nouns with Credit Yesay Sihotang

2. For 7 th grade student in 1 st semester Time allocation : 1 x 80 minutes

3. LEARNING MATERIALS Countable & uncountable nouns meaning Poem that contains countable & uncountable nouns Haiku about countable & uncountable nouns

4. LEARNING OBJECTIVE After following the learning activities, the students can Identify countable and uncountable nouns Read the label text and noun list in their daily life Make sentences about countable and uncountable nouns in the form of Haiku

5. .Learning Activities. Pre activity 10 minutes Main activity 60 minutes Post activity 10 minutes

6. PRE - ACTIVITY Greeting Praying Checking students’ attendance Reviewing about previous lesson and explaining about the connection of previous lesson and today’s lesson

7. .Learning Activities. Pre activity 10 minutes Main activity 60 minutes Post activity 10 minutes

8. MAIN ACTIVITY Explaining about countable & uncountable nouns

9. COUNTABLE N0UNS Nouns that we can count Example : One apple…Two apples…Three apples A book…Two books…Three books A pen…Two pens…Three pens

10. UNCOUNTABLE N0UNS Nouns that we can not count Example : WATER One water Two waters Three waters Uncountable nouns are always singular MILK SALT

11. MAIN ACTIVITY Explaining about countable & uncountable nouns Showing the poem

12. COUNTABLE POEM Pancakes, pancakes Bubbling in the pan - Toss them high, watch them fall Catch them if you can! Eggs and creamy milk Beaten up and down- Add the flour , stir some more Round and round and round! Take a plate , stack them high Pancakes hot and brown- Squeeze the lemon, eat with honey The very best in town! Pancakes

13. MAIN ACTIVITY Explaining about countable & uncountable nouns Showing the poem Giving exercise from the poem

14. COUNTABLE EXERCISE 1 Look at the highlighted nouns in the poem. Which ones can you count and which ones you can not count? List them! Countable nouns Uncountable nouns - - - - - -

15. COUNTABLE POEM Pancakes, pancakes Bubbling in the pan - Toss them high, watch them fall Catch them if you can! Eggs and creamy milk Beaten up and down- Add the flour , stir some more Round and round and round! Take a plate , stack them high Pancakes hot and brown- Squeeze the lemon, eat with honey The very best in town! Pancakes

16. MAIN ACTIVITY Explaining about countable & uncountable nouns Showing the poem Giving exercise from the poem Introducing Haiku

17. COUNTABLE HAIKU Japanese poem Very short poem Consist of 3 lines Every line is correlated Line 1 consist of 5 sylables Line 2 consist of 7 sylables Line 3 consist of 5 sylables SYLABLE The beat in a word

18. COUNTABLE HAIKU Example of sylables A–pple : 2 sylables Dust–bin : 2 sylables Book : 1 sylable Bu–ter–fly : 3 sylables SYLABLE The beat in a word

19. COUNTABLE HAIKU Example of haiku I have many books (5 sylables) Book is window of the world (7 sylables) I love reading book (5 sylables)

20. COUNTABLE HAIKU Example of haiku The bee flies quickly (5 sylables) It turns around and stings me (7 sylables) Then falls to the ground (5 sylables)

21. COUNTABLE HAIKU Example of haiku Sand scatters the beach (5 sylables) Waves crash on the sandy shore (7 sylables) Blue water shimmers (5 sylables)

22. MAIN ACTIVITY Explaining about countable & uncountable nouns Showing the poem Giving exercise from the poem Introducing Haiku Students write their own Haiku and read aloud their Haiku one by one

23. .Learning Activities. Pre activity 10 minutes Main activity 60 minutes Post activity 10 minutes

24. POST ACTIVITY Give feedback to the student Inform the students about the next lesson Farewell greeting

25. The End