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INTRODUCTION TO USING ‘A’ AND ‘AN’
Truth to Teach (Source)
God promises to bless peace-makers, who take action to end disagreements in a righteous way.
The use of ‘a’ or’an’
Way to Work (Means)
1. Ask the children to put up their hand if they have ever had a disagreement or an argument or even a
fight with someone. Maybe the children have been hit or hurt in some other way. Everybody has to
learn how to respond in such a situation and how to settle disagreements peacefully.
2. Explain that sometimes people are unable to settle a disagreement themselves and they need
someone, who can come alongside and help them to find peace again. Such a person is called a
peace-maker. Maybe a teacher or parent gets involved and gently asks, ‘What’s happened here?
Tell me all about it.’ Then the peace-maker helps them solve the disagreement in a good way.
The Bible says, ‘Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called sons of God.’ (Matthew 5:9).
They shall be like Jesus, for Jesus was a peace-maker. Talk briefly about sin in our hearts making us
enemies of God, but when Jesus died he made it possible for us to come into peace with God. God
loves peace and harmony and he delights in using us to bring about peace among people.
3. Suggest that the children think of Letter N as a peace-maker in Father Alphabet’s family of letter
children and in particular among the vowels. Review using a ‘remember rhyme’: -
Here are the vowels,
How do you do!
A, E, I, O, U.
Write the vowels at the top of the board.
Ask the children for examples of naming words. Write the ‘normal’ ones, e.g. a pencil, a window, a
chair on the left side, and any ones beginning with vowels on the right side without the addition of ‘n’,
e.g. a egg, a umbrella, a orangutan.
4. Starting with those on the left go over all the vowels in red. Moving to those on the right explain that
it’s quite challenging to pronounce two vowels quickly and to keep them as separate sounds. They get
tangled up together.
This is where Letter N helps. Letter N comes between the two vowels and helps solve the difficulty.
We say ‘anegg, anumbrella, anorangutan’. We write the ‘n’ after the ‘a’ and then leave a space before
the naming word. This makes for peace.
5. Tell the children that if a word following ‘a’ begins with a short vowel, we use ‘an’ in English so that
the language flows and is easier to understand. If the next word begins with a consonant, we just use
‘a’.
6. Let the children complete the worksheet.
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