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Topic: Noun phrase

These resources cover noun phrases: phrases with a noun or pronoun as the Head word. Noun phrases can be quite short and simple, like this hat or an egg, but can also be built up into longer and more complex structures, like a very nice guy, every single person without a computer background or the woman who'd led them for their entire political career.

Genre of Recipes

Lesson Plan

Goals: 

  • Compare the discourse structure and register features of two recipes
  • Identify which grammatical features can be omitted for effect 
  • Analyse why recipes follow a predictable structure and set of features

Lesson Plan

Before this lesson, you may want to complete the lesson An Introduction to Genre, so that learners are familiar with the key terms discourse structure and register

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Genre of Recipes

Activities

Warmer 

Discuss with a partner: 

  • What's your favourite meal? 
  • What recipes can you cook? 
  • What kind of information do recipes normally include?

Activity 1 

In pairs or small groups, read recipes A and B. Take turns describing each recipe, and then discuss with your partner: 

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Analysing representation in romantic fiction

Lesson plan for Mills and Boon exercise

Goal

  • Use linguistic tools to analyse representation in romantic fiction

    Lesson plan

    Gathering the noun phrases and verbs relating to particular topics in a text can be a good first step in analysing the representation of those topics. This lesson uses blurbs from the Mills & Boon website to discuss how those texts represent gender and how that might suit its readers.

    Give students the blurbs and have them read out.

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    02: Adjectives and expanded noun phrases

    Year 2 Guided Grammar Lessons #2

    This is Lesson #2 of a unit of 10.

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    Teacher Slide

    Objective: grammar

    To understand the grammatical characteristics of adjectives and expanded noun phrases.

    Objective: writing

    To explore the roles that adjectives and expanded noun phrases play in writing, and to apply this to the pupils' own writing.

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    KS1 noun phrase generator

    Use the interactive whiteboard to generate weird and wonderful noun phrases. 

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    Y2 GPaS Test: Identify the noun phrase

    Find the noun phrase in a range of examples

    Identify the noun phrase, consisting of several words, in each of the following clauses.

    Click on the words that comprise the noun phrase to select or deselect them.

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    Determiners: Advanced

    The following is taken from Bas Aarts's Grammarianism blog.

    In a recent blog post on terminology I mentioned the word class of determiners, and said that they are a relatively new word class.

    By 'relatively new' I mean 'early twentieth century'. The National Curriculum Glossary definition, determiner, is very brief, here I'll expand on it.

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    Noun phrase generator: Activity

    Use the interactive whiteboard to generate weird and wonderful noun phrases. 

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    Identify the noun phrase Head

    Find the Head word (the most pivotal word) of each highlighted phrase

    Identify the Head in each of the following bracketed noun phrases.

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    Identify the type of phrase

    Identify the type of phrase (noun phrase, preposition phrase, etc.) in each of the examples. Although we have included verb phrases as an option, remember that the National Curriculum calls these clauses.

     

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