Showing posts with label collective nouns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collective nouns. Show all posts

Monday, September 15, 2025

Thursday, September 11, 2025

* Kahoot game for Collective Nouns

I created a Kahoot game for collective nouns, which is available here: Collective Nouns.
In my class, I used this game to clarify the collective nouns as we practiced them.  As we worked through the Kahoot questions, I kept a table on the side of the whiteboard listing the collective nouns, and what they consisted of.  As we encountered new collective nouns, I put them up on the table, and elicited from the students what the collective nouns consisted of.  An example is below:

Collective noun (1 thing)

has many

army

soldiers

class

students


...etc,
An upbeat, funny song to help you teach collective nouns to your elementary class!


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.
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.

Collective Nouns

(TESOL Ideas and Worksheets Subdivisions)

* Kahoot game for Collective Nouns
* Kahoot games for singular and plural nouns (The second game has some questions which require students to understand that class, family, army are collective nouns.)
* Bamboozle Game for Am/Is/Are (Subject Verb Agreement) (Has a couple of questions that require students to understand that "family" and "class" are collective nouns.)

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Bamboozle Game for Am/Is/Are (Subject Verb Agreement)

I created a Bamboozle game to practice distinguishing between singulars and plurals, and also subject/verb agreement with am/is/are.  That game is here: Subject Verb Agreement am/is/are
The game is based on sentence gapfills
In my class I used this as a follow-up for a group of students who had just done exercises in distinguishing between singular and plural forms.   As with those previous exercises, I also snuck in a couple of collective nouns (family, class).   In feedback for this activity, I tried to explain about the collective nouns.

Tuesday, September 09, 2025


Recently I was teaching singular/plural nouns to low-level 5th grade students.
I started out with a very basic kahoot game that simply tested whether or not students could identify basic plural forms.  That game is here: Basic Singular and Plural
Once that basic Kahoot was mastered, I moved on to a Kahoot that I found that tested irregular plural forms: Singular & Plural.  I made a copy of it so that I could make my own edits on it.  These edits were mainly to make the prompts more based on pictures, but I did add in a couple questions, and also deleted a copy questions.  My edited copy is here: Duplicate of Singular & Plural.
In my edited copy, I also made a move to introduce collective nouns, specifically: class, family, army