I was looking for a suitable video to introduce collective nouns to my low-level ESL students.
While searching through the Internet, I discovered that much of the material available on collective nouns seems to be based on obscure collective nouns for groups of animals (e.g. a murder of crows, a parliament of owls, etc.) rather than explaining more practical and common collective nouns. And this video falls into that as well, particularly the second half of it.
While searching through the Internet, I discovered that much of the material available on collective nouns seems to be based on obscure collective nouns for groups of animals (e.g. a murder of crows, a parliament of owls, etc.) rather than explaining more practical and common collective nouns. And this video falls into that as well, particularly the second half of it.
Nevertheless, it's short, it's upbeat, it's entertaining, and at least some of the collective nouns that it introduces are useful.
In my class I played this video for my students. They were tasked with writing down at least 6 collective nouns from the video. In my class, I needed to play it a couple times for them to accomplish this. I used this as a way to introduce the topic of collective nouns.
In my class I played this video for my students. They were tasked with writing down at least 6 collective nouns from the video. In my class, I needed to play it a couple times for them to accomplish this. I used this as a way to introduce the topic of collective nouns.
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