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Let’s Learn Material Nouns

Material nouns are the names of substances, material, or ingredients. These include cheese
(made from milk), furniture (made from wood).

Practice Time 5

A. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct material nouns from those given in brackets.
1. At the end of the road is a high _______________. (jump/joy/wall)
2. The _______________ soon disappeared. (fragrance/clouds/trees)
3. That house was built with red _______________. (leaves/bricks/feelings)

4. King Rupert had a lot of _______________ in his bag. (money/happiness/poverty)
5. Each piece of _______________ was perfectly toasted. (health/curiosity/bread)
6. After driving for 100 km, my car needed _______________. (friend/petrol/heating)

B. Underline the nouns in the following sentences and state their type in the given blanks.
1. Our team is the best. _____________________
2. I need a new pen. _____________________
3. Meena sings well. _____________________
4. Birds fly. _____________________

5. Truth always prevails. _____________________
6. Have you seen the Taj Mahal? _____________________

Listening & Speaking Time

The teacher will divide the class into four groups. He/She will ask the members of
each group to discuss among themselves the possible sentences made with five kinds
of nouns. He/She will monitor that the students talk to each other in English. Each
group will decide a group representative. After five minutes, he/she will ask if all
groups are ready with one sentence each on common noun, proper noun, collective
noun, abstract noun, and material noun. He/She will begin the activity with one group.
The representative of the group will speak out the sentences, and the whole class
will listen. The teacher will discuss and then will give two marks for each correct
sentence.

logiCal thinking
Vocabulary

Who am I? Nouns
1. I fly aeroplane and helicopter. _____________________
2. I treat sick people at a hospital. _____________________

3. I decide cases in a law court. _____________________
4. I am in charge of soldiers or a particular military activity. _____________________
5. I click pictures as part of my profession. _____________________
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