Unit 3
Language: ‘a’ or ‘an’
Use an when the next word begins with ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’ or ‘u’: an ant an umbrella Use a when the next word begins with any other letter: a boy
1 Use each pair of words in a sentence.
Example: A boy sat next to me.
a boy
a girl
an orange
an ant
2 Do we use an or a in front of these words?
Example: girl â a girl
1 farmer 3 umbrella 5 egg
2 animal 4 mango 6 yam
• Extension: Bring in or collect pictures of objects, for example an orange, an eraser, an egg, an apple, an umbrella. Add other objects from the classroom. Tell pupils to give three objects to a classmate, who says, for example, “I went shopping and bought an egg, a pencil and a book.” The objects are returned and the exercise repeated. • For more work on ‘a’ and ‘an’, see Workbook 1 page 50.
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