Lesson video

Hello, everyone.

I'm Miss Corbert.

And I'm so excited that you chose to start this grammar unit with me today.

I can't wait.

So let's get started.

So for this lesson, you will need your listening ears.

Can I see them? Your looking eyes and that thinking brain.

You'll also need your voice to shout out some of the answers to me.

Because by the end of this lesson, you will be able to define, which means explain, and identify, which means spot, a noun.

That sounds very exciting.

Let's see our keywords which will help us go through our lesson together.

Now, don't worry if you don't know what these words mean, because by the end of the lesson, I'm sure that you will.

Are you ready? Let me hear you.

My turn.

Your turn.

Noun.

Noun.

Common noun.

Common noun.

Proper noun.

Proper noun.

And I think you'll know this one: capital letter.

Capital letter.

Well done.

Let's see if we can go one more time, a little bit quicker.

Let me hear you loud and proud.

Noun.

Common noun.

Proper noun.

Capital letter.

Fantastic.

Let's get started with our lesson.

And our first part of the lesson will be answering the question: What are nouns? So you'll be able to do that really soon.

Here is a definition of nouns straight away.

Nouns are naming words.

Well done.

So nouns are something that we name.

That might be a person or people, places, or things.

They name people, places, and things.

What do they name? People, places and things.

Fantastic.

Let's have a look at each one.

These nouns are all people, because nouns name people, places, and things.

Let's have a look at the first one.

A teacher.

I'm, I'm a teacher.

King Charles is our king.

He is a person.

The nurse helps me at the hospital.

He was very kind.

I wonder, can you think of one more person that might be somebody special to you, or that might be somebody you've learned about in school like King Charles? Can you shout a person out to me? I heard so many different people.

Well done.

So one type of a noun are people.

These nouns are all places, because nouns can be people, places, or things.

Let's have a look at some places: the beach.

I would love to be on a hot sandy beach.

The playground.

We go into the playground at playtime.

So a place is something we go to or go into.

Finally, the library.

I love going to the library to read a book nice and quietly.

Hmm, I wonder if you can think of one more place somewhere where you like to go.

Can you shout it to me? Again, I heard so many places.

I heard the cinema, I heard the museum, and I heard school, as well as your home.

All very special places to be.

Finally, these nouns are all things, because nouns, name, people, places, and things.

A plane: I can travel by plane to get to the beach.

A ball: I love throwing a ball to my friend in the playground.

And an apple.

Oh, it's making me hungry.

I want to crunch on a delicious apple.

They are all things.

Hmm, could you name another thing, please? Could you shout it at me? Oh, I heard so many things.

I heard your favourite storybook.

I heard a pen.

I heard a pencil.

I heard grass.

I heard the water.

Fantastic.

Well done.

Now it's your turn to see if you can match the label of the type of naming words or nouns, person, place, and thing, to the picture.

I have got a sunny beach.

I have a sunflower, and I have a little boy.

So my nouns are the beach, a sunflower, and a little boy.

I wonder, can you get your pointing finger ready? Can I see it? Ah, there it is.

Can you point to the person? Well done if you are pointing to the little boy.

'Cause the little boy is a person.

Get your pointing finger back.

Ready? Can you point to the place? Where is the place that you would go to.

Point to it now.

Well done if you are pointing to the beach.

You wouldn't go inside a sunflower, or the little boy isn't a place.

A place is somewhere that we go to, such as the beach.

Well done.

And finally, get your pointing finger ready and point to the thing.

There it is, the sunflower.

I love growing sunflowers.

Well done.

Now, every sentence has at least one noun.

And remember, nouns are people, places, and things.

Have a look at this sentence: The boy went shopping.

In this sentence, I can see a person, the boy.

My noun is the boy.

Let's read the next sentence: It was hot in the park.

There is my noun: the place.

The place is the park.

And finally, the ball is green.

My noun is the thing, the ball.

So my nouns in my sentence are things that are naming words.

Now it's your turn to see if you can spot the noun.

I'm going to read the sentence for you, and I would like you to think in your head which one of those words that I said was the noun, the person, place, or thing? Hmm, The sun is shining.

The sun is shining.

Which is the noun? Well done.

The sun is the noun because the sun is the thing.

Fantastic.

The next sentence: A man was crying.

A man was crying.

Can you think of what the noun is? The person, place, or thing.

Well done if you've got the man.

The man is a person.

So the noun in that word is the man.

And finally, one more.

The beach is long.

The beach is long.

Which is the noun in that sentence? Well done if you got the beach.

Fantastic.

The word beach is the noun because that is the place.

Now we are ready for our first task.

Have a look at this picture.

It looks like a park in a city.

I can see so much going on.

We are going to be noun detectives.

We are going to search for the nouns in the picture and sort them into the people, places, and things.

Let's have a look.

In this picture I can see a duck.

I can see a parent duck with three little ducklings swimming behind.

Can you see that for me? Well done.

I can also see a child.

I can see a child sitting on a picnic blanket with their grownup and a little dog.

I can see a tree.

I can see lots of trees, actually.

Tall green trees.

And finally, the whole thing is a park.

Now, we know that our nouns might be person, places or things, so we have to sort those nouns into those sections.

I need you to pause the video and tell me which of these words are people, places, and things.

I will say them one more time.

The duck, the child, the tree, and the park.

Pause the video now.

Off you go.

Well done, I wonder whether you managed to be noun detectives.

Let's have a look and see.

Can you check your thinking with me? So the first one we had was a duck.

Is a duck a person? No.

Is a duck a place? No.

Is it a thing? Yes, a duck is a thing.

Well done.

Now, a child.

Hmm, person, place, or thing? You are all shouting at me.

You are right.

A child is a person.

Well done.

A tree.

Is a tree a person? Is a tree a place, somewhere where I can go? Or is a tree a thing? Yes, a tree is a thing.

And finally, a park.

Is a park a person? Is it a place? Yes, the whole place in the picture is a park, which means the park is a place.

Well done.

You managed to sort those nouns into people, places, and things.

Now let's move on to our second part of our lesson looking at common and proper nouns, our new keywords.

Let's get started.

Now we know what nouns are.

Now we need to learn that there are different type of nouns.

Common nouns, that's one of our keywords.

Common noun.

Well done.

Common nouns name people, places, and things, but they do not need a capital letter.

For example, Let's have a look at this picture.

We can see a man.

The word man is a common noun, so it doesn't need a capital letter.

Wheelchair: the wheelchair is a thing that doesn't need a capital letter.

Ball, that doesn't need a capital letter either: a common noun.

And jumper.

These are all common nouns.

Well done.

I wonder if you could get your pointing finger to point to the two common nouns.

I'm going to read them for you.

Hat.

Bright.

Running.

Park.

You are looking for those two things that are nouns.

Can you pause the video and point? Well done if you pointed to hats and park.

The word 'bright' is actually a describing word to describe something.

And running is something that we do.

Hats and park are both nouns.

A hat is a thing and a park is a place.

And they are common nouns.

Well done.

So we have looked at our common nouns.

We also have proper nouns.

Proper nouns is another one of our keywords.

Proper nouns.

Well done.

Proper nouns name specific people, places, and things.

Because they're so specific to them, that means they need a capital letter.

That's where our last keyword comes in: capital letter.

Let's have a look at some examples.

King Charles is a specific person, which means his name can't look like this.

It needs capital letters.

A Cardiff castle, which is a castle in Wales, that is a specific place, which means they need a capital letter.

And the Royal Mile, a place in Edinburgh, because it's a specific place, needs a capital letter.

Well done.

Hmm.

I have a true or false for you.

You could show me with a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down.

Are you ready? Proper nouns always need a capital letter.

Is that true or is it false? Remember, proper nouns are specific people, places, and things.

True or false? Well done if you are pointing to true.

Proper nouns always need a capital letter because they are specific people, places, and things.

Fantastic.

So we now know that proper nouns always have a capital letter.

But common nouns don't need a capital letter.

Let's have a look at some examples.

Common nouns such as flower, jam, hats, brother.

Those nouns could be used for so many different things, so they don't need a capital letter.

They are common nouns because they come up in lots of different places and things.

Hmm, now let's look at some proper nouns like the name Sofia.

And you can see it has a capital letter.

The place, Blackpool.

And that's actually the town that I am from.

And it needs a capital letter.

Stonehenge, a really amazing place to visit.

And King Street.

So the name of any streets or lane or avenue that you might live on needs a capital letter because they are proper nouns, specific people, places, and things.

Now we are going to sort the nouns into the correct column.

We have common nouns on the left and proper nouns on the right.

Are we ready? The first one I have is Edinburgh Castle.

Oh, that sounds like quite a specific place.

Can you point? Is it common noun or proper noun? I'll give you five seconds.

Well done.

It's a proper noun.

And I know that because it has a capital letter and it's a specific place.

Are you ready for the next one? A star.

Is a star a common noun or a proper noun? Five seconds.

Well done.

A star is a common noun.

It doesn't have a specific name, which means it's a common noun so it doesn't need a capital letter.

Are you ready for the next one? Kamal.

I taught a child called Kamal.

Hmm, a common noun or a proper noun? Can you point now? five seconds.

Well done.

A proper noun.

And I know that because it's the name of somebody and it has a capital letter.

Final one.

The word bag.

Hmm.

I took my bag to the shop.

Is that a common noun or a proper noun? Can you point now? Well done.

A bag is a common noun.

It doesn't have a specific name for something, but it is a noun because it is a thing.

Fantastic sorting.

Well done.

Now, we now know that proper nouns always have a capital letter.

But we've learnt that capital letters only come at the start of our sentences.

If you have a proper noun in your sentence, they can appear at the beginning, the middle, or even the end of the sentence.

For example: It was busy in Bristol.

Bristol is a place in England that comes at the end of my sentence, but it is a specific name so it needs a capital letter.

Liam has a sister.

The name Liam comes at the start of my sentence, and it needs a capital letter because it is at the start of the sentence and because it is a proper noun.

We visited Disneyland last summer.

Wow, how exciting.

Disneyland is a proper noun because it is a specific place.

And look, it's right in the middle of the sentence.

But because it's a proper noun, it always needs a capital letter no matter where it goes in the sentence.

The first word in a sentence though that we know always, always starts with a capital letter.

Well done.

Another true or false for you.

Can you get your thumbs up or your thumbs down? Proper nouns always go at the beginning of a sentence.

Hmm, let me think of one of my sentences.

Liam has a sister.

We went to Disneyland in the summer.

Hmm, it was busy in Bristol.

Proper nouns always go at the beginning of a sentence.

True or false? Can you show me now? Well done if your thumbs are down.

A proper noun can go anywhere in the sentence, but it always needs a capital letter.

Now, we went noun spotting before and we learnt that every sentence needs at least one noun, but it can also contain more than one noun.

For example, the cat sleeps soundly on the bed.

Hmm, imagine it's sleeping so soundly.

Now, the cat is the name of a thing and so is the bed.

There is a bird in the tree.

My nouns there are bird and tree.

They're both things.

Sam went to London Zoo and he saw lions.

Oh, that sounds exciting.

Now I have two proper nouns in my sentence: Sam and London Zoo.

And I also have a common noun: lions.

So sentences can have more than one noun in them and a mix of common nouns and proper nouns.

Now it is time for our next task.

You are going to have a go at circling the noun or nouns, because there might be more than one in each sentence.

Remember, we have learnt that nouns are naming words.

They are naming people, places, or things.

They might be common nouns or proper nouns, which means they need a capital letter.

I'm going to read the sentences to you.

Then you are going to have a go at circling the nouns in the sentences.

Are you listening? My coat is warm.

Avi was skipping at school.

The Eiffel Tower is tall.

You now need to pause the video and circle all of the nouns you can see in those three sentences.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Let's see how you got on.

Let's have a look.

My coat is warm.

Hmm.

My isn't a naming word.

Coat (gasps).

The coat is a name of a thing.

I'm going to keep checking.

Is, that's not naming anything.

Warm, that's describing something.

I think it's just coats.

Avi was skipping at school.

My sentence starts with a proper noun.

Avi was skipping.

That's talking about something that he was doing at school.

School is the name of a place.

And finally, the Eiffel Tower is tall.

I can spot a proper noun.

Eiffel Tower, a tower in Paris, in France.

And 'is tall' is just talking about the Eiffel Tower, not naming it.

Well done if you managed to circle all of those nouns.

You have one more task to do now.

You are going to have a look at these sentences and decide if the noun that is circled is a common noun or a a proper noun.

Remember, a proper noun is something specific that has a specific name and has a capital letter.

You are going to say the circled noun is a 'mm' noun, common or proper? Let's have a look at these sentences.

My coat is warm.

And coat is circled.

The circled noun is a 'mm' noun.

Let's have a look at which nouns are circled.

Avi and school.

Hmm, the first circled noun is a 'mm' noun.

The second circled noun is a 'mm' noun.

Two of them there.

And finally, Eiffel Tower.

The circled noun is a 'mm' noun, common or proper? Pause the video and work with the person next to you.

Off you go.

Let's see how you got on.

Well done.

You worked so well to describe those nouns.

Let's have a look.

My coat is warm.

That, the noun is a common noun.

Doesn't have a capital letter or a specific name.

Avi was skipping at school.

The first noun is a proper noun, the name of somebody, and it has a capital letter.

The second noun is a common noun.

And finally: The Eiffel Tower is tall.

This noun is a proper noun because it's the name of a specific place or thing, and it has a capital letter.

Well done if you managed to spot those common nouns and proper nouns.

And that is the end of our lesson.

I have loved learning with you today all about nouns, what they are, and different types of nouns: common and proper nouns.

We have learnt that nouns are naming words.

Nouns name people, places, and things.

We also have learnt that there are two different types of noun: common nouns and proper nouns.

Remember, common nouns don't need a capital letter unless they're at the start of a sentence, but proper nouns always need a capital letter wherever they are in the sentence.

Thank you so much for learning with me today, and I can't wait to see you again.

Bye.