G4_English_1Q_Lessons 1-4

Elements of a short Story

____________ - The people, animal or things who take part in the story. It answer the questions who?

         Example: Mother, Three little pigs, big bad Wolf

• Theme

• Plot

• Setting

• Character

Elements of a short Story

____________ - The time, place, and environment in which the story takes place. It answers the questions when and where?

         Example: It could be the inside and outside the 3 little pigs homes because it’s where the story took place.

• Theme

• Plot

• Setting

• Character

Elements of a short Story

Plot – The sequence of the story. It answer the questions what?

       ______________ -start of the story gives the problem faced by the main character

                 Example: The mother pig sends off the three little pigs for them to build their own houses.

• Ending

• Middle

• Beginning

Elements of a short Story

Plot – The sequence of the story. It answer the questions what?

       ____________ - it presents the actions made by the characters to solve the problem

               Example: Three pigs who build three houses of different materials. A Big Bad Wolf blows down the first two pigs' houses, made of straw and sticks respectively, but is unable to destroy the third pig's house, made of bricks.

• Ending

• Middle

• Beginning

Elements of a short Story

Plot – The sequence of the story. It answer the questions what?

 

       ____________ - end of the story

             Example: He tried to enter through the chimney but the third little pig boiled a big pot of water and kept it below the chimney. The wolf fell into the hot water, ran away and never bothered the pigs again.

• Ending

• Middle

• Beginning

Elements of a short Story

___________ - The controlling idea, central insight or the underlying meaning or main idea that the author wanted to convey.

 

             Example: The moral of Three Little Pigs is that patience and hard effort pay off in the end.

 

• Theme

• Plot

• Setting

• Characters

Count, Mass and Collective Nouns

__________________– is a word that names something such as person, place thing or idea.

• Noun Determiners

• Mass Noun

•    Count Noun

• Noun

• Collective Nouns

Count, Mass and Collective Nouns

__________________   - Are nouns that we can count. There can be more than one of them. Quantifiers are added before the count nouns.

Example:

             One orange, two brothers, three biscuits, five schools, twenty students

Aside from numbers, we can also use:  a, an, the, some, many, and few to quantify them

Example:

                                     A notebook, An apple, Some oranges, Few pupils

• Noun Determiners

• Mass Noun

•    Count Noun

• Noun

• Collective Nouns

Count, Mass and Collective Nouns

__________________- are nouns that cannot be counted. Generally, they do not have plural forms. We do not use numbers to count them. We use counters instead. Feelings are also considered to be mass nouns. A lot of mass nouns come in liquid or mass form like clay, tea, and soup.

      Example:

                Food, furniture, air, advice, blood, grass, research, trash, travel, knowledge, information

Since we cannot count mass nouns by themselves, we need to use quantifiers;             

                   Cup of                      pail of                    teaspoon of             pack of

                  Heap of                     pile of                   dash of                     pinch of         box of

• Noun Determiners

• Mass Noun

•    Count Noun

• Noun

• Collective Nouns

Count, Mass and Collective Nouns

Noun Determiners for :

     Examples:  ___________- Many, few, and some

           

• For count nouns

• For mass nouns