GUIDELINE TO TEACH WEAK STUDENTS

MODULE 1: GRAMMAR AND INTRODUCTION TO WRITE SIMPLE

SENTENCES

INTRODUCTION TO NOUNS

Session 1

WHAT IS NOUN?

Nouns are words used for naming people, animals, things or places.

Example People: There are a lot of people in the world. Some people we meet every day,
some people we never met but we heard about them, some people we knew online. Narrow
down the subject until they can give the examples on their own. ( the same goes with name of
things, place and animal). Use inverted pyramid method.

Examples: (after narrow down)

Name of person Name of thing Name of place Name of animal

In a family: At home: At home: Land animalstame
Mother, father, sister, Television, dinner Toilet, bedroom, animals, wild
brother, baby, cousin, table, chair, door, bathroom, living animals:
nephew, niece, uncle, window, curtain room, kitchen, Tame animals:
aunty panel, curtain, car, backyard, balcony Cat, duck, chicken,
rooster,
At school: At school: At school:
Teacher, headmaster, White board, chalk, Canteen, teachers Wild animal:
headmistress, markers, table, chair, room, classroom, Tiger, bear, lion,
gardener, prefect, flower, pencil, pen, field, hall, garden, giraffe, snake
pupil, exercise book toilet, prayer hall

Quick Test:

1) What is noun?
2) Examples of the nouns. (If the students are very weak, accept any answers even
though it is repetition from the examples we give)

Discuss the answer with them. Ask the students what is their answer. If possible, ask them to
list a lot of nouns they know. If they not know in English, let they write in Malay and ask
them to look up the English words in their dictionary.

This exercise is to develop their vocabulary. Increase their memory to memorize the words in
English.

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Session 2

Nouns are divided into:

1) Common noun
2) Proper noun
3) Singular noun
4) Plural noun
5) Countable noun
6) Uncountable noun

1) Common noun- is name of people, things, place, animals- IN GENERAL

Examples: Like table in session 1

2) Proper noun is name of people, things, place, animals- IN SPECIFIC

Examples:

People Thing Place Animal

Pak Hassan, Mr. Nokia, Samsung, Grand Continental Sang Kancil, Bobo,
Amir, Puan Hasnah, Ipad 5, Kawasaki, Hotel, Pulau Pinang, Sang Buaya, Bujang
Madam Yat, Dr. Honda, Kelisa Villa Arisa Senang
Rashid

**Exercise given on this topic**

3) Singular noun means one

Examples : A man, a boy, an apple, a house, a cat

4) Plural noun means more than one

Examples : The men, the boys, the apples, the houses, the cats

**Exercise given on this topic**

5) Countable nouns nouns that we can count as in singular and plural nouns.

6) Uncountable nouns abstract nouns joy, sadness, truth, Concrete noun- juice, hair,
mud, wool, water, salt

**Exercise given on this topic**

Give them quick test on each section.

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*Yat- I do not know a school approach, but I usually use this notes (introduction to nouns and
its attributes) for one week, just to make the students familiarize with the words and play with
the words. Each topic, I gave the students lots of exercises from different books. And after
that, I straight away introduce them to verb and teach them on how to make simple sentences.

INTRODUCTION TO VERBS

Verb is an action word.

Examples:

Things you do every day: walk, run, play, laugh

Things you do in sport: swim, jump, hop

*Ask the students to list all the verbs they know, and allow them to write in Malay and look
up the meaning in their dictionary.

*And for this session to, I always gave the students exercises from different books for them
to familiar with the verb and the sentences.

INTRODUCTION TO SIMPLE SENTENCES

BASIC FORMULA TO MAKE SIMPLE SENTENCE SUBJECT (NOUN) + VERB

Usually, to construct a sentence for a singular subject, we always placed the indefinite articles
in front of the singular nouns.

There are 2 indefinite articles in English a, an

a meets with consonants sound

an meets with vowels sound

**Exercise given**

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WRITE ON YOUR OWN SESSION

THE SUBJECT IS A SINGULAR SUBJECT, THE FORMULA:

SINGULAR SUBJECT (NOUN) + VERB (S)

EXAMPLES :

Subject ( noun) Action (verb)

Who? What?
1) A girl laugh(s)
2) A man sit(s)
3) An elephant drink(s)

FULL SENTENCES:

1) A girl laughs.
2) A man sits
3) A baby crawls.

*Ask the students to make 10 sentences from the nouns they have learned and the verbs they
have learned.

THE SUBJECT IS A SINGULAR SUBJECT, THE FORMULA:

PLURAL SUBJECT {NOUN(s) } + VERB

Usually to construct the plural noun as a subject, usually we placed the definite article the
in front of the noun.

**Exercise given**

EXAMPLES:

Subject ( noun) Action (verb)

Who? What?
1) The girls laugh
2) The boys sit
3) The tigers run

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FULL SENTENCES:

1) The girls laugh.

2) The boys sit.
3) The tigers run.

* Ask the students to make 10 sentences. Repetition of noun is allowed for them to familiar
with the sentence structure, however, each verb must be different in each sentences.

INTODUCTION TO SIMPLE SENTENCES WITH (VERB TO BE = IS)

IS verb to be in present tense.

used after the singular noun/pronoun

**give exercises on the topic**

WRITE ON YOUR OWN SESSION

FORMULA SINGULAR SUBJECT +IS+VERB(ING)

Subject (noun) Action (verb)

Who? What?
1) A man is stand(ing)
2) A girl is cry(ing)
3) A boy is jump(ing)

SENTENCES

1) A man is standing.
2) A girl is crying.
3) A boy is jumping.

**Ask the students to write 10 sentences using this formula.**

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INTODUCTION TO SIMPLE SENTENCES WITH (VERB TO BE = ARE)

ARE-verb to be in present tense

is used after the plural nouns

**Give exercises on the topic**

WRITE ON YOUR OWN SESSION

FORMULA : PLURAL NOUN + ARE + VERB(ING)

Subject (noun) Action (verb)

Who? What?
1) The ladies are stand(ing)
2) The girls are cry(ing)
3) The boys are jump(ing)

FULL SENTENCES

1) The ladies are standing.

2) The girls are crying.
3) The boys are jumping.

**ask the students to write 10 sentences**

INTODUCTION TO SIMPLE SENTENCES WITH (VERB TO BE = WAS)

WAS verb to be in past tense

Used after the singular noun/pronoun

**exercise given**

WRITE ON YOUR OWN SESSION

FORMULA: SINGULAR NOUN + WAS + VER(ING)+TIME FRAME

Subject (noun) Action (verb)

Who? What?
1) A man was stand(ing) just now.
2) A girl was cry(ing) yesterday.
3) A boy was jump(ing) few
minutes ago

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FULL SENTENCES

1) A man was standing just now.

2) A girl was laughing yesterday.
3) A boy was jumping few minutes ago.

INTODUCTION TO SIMPLE SENTENCES WITH (VERB TO BE = WERE)

WERE verb to be in past tense

used after the plural noun/pronoun

**exercise given on this topic**

WRITE ON YOUR OWN SESSION

FORMULA : PLURAL NOUN + WERE + VERB(ING) +TIME FRAME

Subject (noun) Action (verb)

Who? What?
1) The ladies were stand(ing) just now
2) The girls were cry(ing) yesterday.
3) The boys were jump(ing) five
minutes ago.

FULL SENTENCES:

1) The ladies were standing just now.

2) The girls were crying yesterday.
3) The boys were jumping five minutes ago.

++END OF CHAPTER ONE++

++TEST GIVEN ON THE TOPIC FROM SESSION ONE UP TO WRITE THEIR OWN
SIMPLE SENTENCES++

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