ESL WORKSHEET - Noun phrases

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

NOUN-TASTIC

LinguaHouse

Jun. 28, 2021

Level: Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)
Type of language: General English
Tags: Describing Pictures and Photos; Describing People; Family Members; Entertainment; Socializing
Publication date: 06/28/2021

Students recognize and define noun + noun combinations and then listen to a description of a family photo that uses various types of noun phrases. The language point is compound nouns, noun phrases with prepositions, and the possessive ’s. This language is activated in a guessing game activity. There is an optional extension activity related to kitchen objects that end in -er. (by Stephanie Hirschman)

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• CLICK HERE to download/listen to the audio in American English.
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• CLICK HERE to download/listen to the audio in British English.

AUDIO TRANSCRIPT

Speaker: This is one of my favorite family photos. My oldest child, Grace, took this picture a couple of years ago.
It shows the whole family at home together in our kitchen – I remember this day well.
My wife and middle child, Hannah, are sitting together at the kitchen table.
They’re working on my wife’s laptop, and they’re writing a story about a rabbit. They write lots of stories using Hannah’s ideas.
There’s a pencil holder on the table because Hannah really likes drawing too.
And my wife has always got a coffee cup with her, even if it’s empty – it’s a family joke!
At the back of the picture, you can see me – they call me "the man with the knife" because I do most of the cooking for the family. The child on the counter next to me is Ben, our youngest.
At that time, the back wall of the house was red brick. We changed that recently, and now it’s painted white.
In the picture frame on the wall is another photo that Grace took. She’s very creative.

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