demonstration on compound nouns
TRANSCRIPT
Mechanics▫ The teacher will show pictures to the students
which elicit the characteristics of compound nouns.
▫ The teacher will let the students guess the word(s) that corresponds to the picture shown.
▫ If the students failed to guess the word, the teacher will give clue(s) to make them guess it correctly.
▫ There were only five minutes for this activity. ▫ After the activity was done, the teacher will
give a brief definition of compound nouns out of the activity.
Objectives:
At the end of 45 minutes, the students will be able to:
a. define compound nouns and its three types;
b. discuss the importance of compound nouns in their daily lives; and
c. perform different activities which give emphasis to compound nouns.
Mechanics
o Students will be grouped into four.
o Each group will be given 5 compound nouns.
o The task of the group is to role play whatever scenario they want using the given words.
o Each group will be given 5 minutes to conceptualize and three minutes for presentation including the preparation.
Mechanics
o After the presentation, one member of each group will be given two minutes to defend their presentation by:
a. Reading the words given;
b. Describing the chosen scenario; and
c. Reasoning why they chose such scenario for the given words.
Solid Compound Noun
- are words that are used as a single unit of meaning and it is closed up as solid, or closed, compounds.
Open Compound Noun
- a combination of two or more words which has no space or hyphen but expresses one meaning.
Hyphenated Compound Noun
- a combination of two or more words connected by one or more hyphens but expresses one meaning.
Examples:
sister-in-law
shout-out
state-of-the-art
five-year-old
on-looker
ice-cream
ill-tempered
clear-minded
Mechanics
oStudents will be grouped into six.oAfter grouping, the teacher will give an example
of compound noun.oAfter giving a word, the teacher will draw the
dice to determine what group will do the first task. The number in the dice reflects to the number of group that will do the first task.
oThe first task is to determine what part of speech does the first word of the given compound noun belongs, for example: brown coffee, the first group will answer what part of speech does the word brown belongs.
Mechanics
oOnly one representative from each group will answer for each task, if a certain member answered once, he/she is not allowed to answer again unless everyone in the group has answered already.
o If the group failed to answer the task correctly, the other group will have the chance to steal.
oAfter answering, the group which answered the first task will draw the dice to determine what group will answer the second task which is to determine what part of speech does the remaining word (coffee) belongs.
Mechanics
oAfter answering, the group which answered the first task will draw the dice to determine what group will answer the second task which is to determine what part of speech does the remaining word (coffee) belongs.
oIf the group failed to answer the task correctly, the other group will have the chance to steal.
oThe group gained the highest number of points wins.
Semantically Opaque
Compound Nouns
- words in which the whole meaning cannot be established by an analysis of parts.
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Compound Nouns
Solid CN Open CNHyphenated CN
- are words that are used
as a single unit of
meaning and it is closed up
as solid, or closed,
compounds.
- a combination
of two or more words
connected by one or more hyphens but
expresses one meaning.
- a combination
of two or more words
which has no space or
hyphen but expresses
one meaning.