Countable and uncountable nouns. The articles a/an and the belong to a group of words called “determiners”. The problem of using and teaching articles is of great importance for many reasons. Different ways of teaching articles. Testing using articles.
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Курсова робота Навчання граматики. Peculiarities of Teaching English Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………….………..3 Chapter I. Articles………………………………………………………….………5 1.1 Countable and uncountable nouns…………………………………………….6 1.2 The definite article: “the”…………………………………………………......7 1.3 The indefinite article: “a/an”………………………………………………….9 1.4 The zero article…………………………………………………………..…..10 Chapter II. Different ways of teaching articles………………………………...…12 2.1 Ways of presenting articles…………………………………………………...12 2.2 Memory techniques………………………………………………………...…18 2.3 Further activities for practicing articles…………………………………...….19 2.4 Testing using articles……………………………………………………..…..21 Conclusions……………………………………………………..……………...…25 Summary……………………………………………………………………...…..27 List of References…………………………………………………………...……28 Introduction This paper deals with two types of articles definite (the) and indefinite (a/an), the use of which depends mainly on whether you are referring to any member of a group, or to a specific member of a group. In most European languages there are rules about when to use (or not to use) indefinite and definite articles. Secondly, we use articles in one way if we are talking about things in general (for example Englishmen, or the guitar, or life in general, or whisky), and we use them in a different way when we are talking about particular examples of these things (for example, an Englishman, or a guitar that we want to buy, or the life of Beethoven). Thirdly, when we are talking about particular examples, it depends whether these are definite or indefinite. If they are definite we normally use the. If we are talking about indefinite things we use articles differently (a or no article). 1.1 Countable and uncountable nouns Before we look at articles in more detail, the first idea that needs to be understood is the concept of countable and uncountable nouns. The distinction between countable and uncountable nouns must be clearly understood because it affects our choice of article. Countable nouns are words like cat, bridge, house, idea. We can count them (one cat, two houses, three ideas), so they can have plurals.