Zero Article- Key Word Activities
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Four card games to practise sentences with no article, including a lying game and storytelling, with cards with words that commonly go with the zero article.
Lesson Plan Content:
Zero article key words activities
In small groups, do the activity/ies here your teacher tells you to with words on the cards:
- Tell a story of someone’s (imaginary) strange day
- Tell someone’s (imaginary) interesting life story
- Find things in common (experiences you have both had, opinions you share, etc)
- Pick a word for your partner to make a personal sentence from, ask questions about what they say, then guess if the sentence was true or not
All the words can take zero article, but any correct sentence with those words is okay.
Words that can go with zero article cards to cut up
|
…4
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…7 |
air |
America |
at |
|
bed
|
Belgium |
boat |
breakfast |
by |
|
car
|
church |
college |
dawn |
December |
|
dinnertime
|
dislike |
dusk |
|
ferry |
|
foot
|
hate |
helicopter |
home |
hospital |
|
in
|
January |
Japan |
kindergarten |
land |
|
like
|
love |
lunchtime |
midday |
midnight |
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Monday
|
noon |
on |
plane |
platform… |
|
post/ snail mail
|
primary school |
prison |
really like |
room… |
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rush hour
|
school |
sea |
ship |
social media |
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Sunday
|
text/ SMS |
train |
university/ uni |
work |
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