Singular / Plural games and activities
for ESL kids lessons

Games and activities for teaching “Singular / Plural” to ESL kids

Multiple objects find

Prepare a bag load of objects (plastic fruit, toys, pens, pencils, blocks, plastic animals, etc.). Make sure that there are more than one of most objects (e.g. 3 cars, 2 plastic apples, 3 yellow blocks, 2 red blocks, etc.). In class, throw all of the objects around the room and ask different students to go and give to you various items using single and plurals. E.g. Teacher: Get me a pen, Get me some pencils, Get me 2 red blocks, Get me a yellow block, etc.)

There is / there are

To practice there is/there are. Give your students a list of questions, and have them go around the school, park in order to answer the questions. Questions could be:

• How many doors are there in the school?
• How many teachers are there in the school at this moment?
• How many plants are there in the hall?
• How many tables are there in the classroom?
• etc.

(Submitted by Claudian Torres)