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UNIT 5

Charts 1 Complete the exercises.
5.1,
5.3-5.5 A_ Read about storytelling in Native American culture. Circle the correct answers.

Storytelling: A Native American Tradition

There (1) is / are a long tradition of (2) the / @ storytelling among many Native American
(3) person / people. Stories are often told by elders to teach younger generations important

lessons about (4) a/ @ history and culture. Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, (5) a / the Native
American writer, remembers how it felt to sit with a group of other children and listen to the

fascinating stories that her grandmother told. Sneve and her family () is / are Lakota Indians;
however, (7) a / the tradition is not unique to them.

(8) The / A Lakota culture is just one example of a society in which grandmothers became
the storytellers. Hunting for food was (9) the / @ responsibility of the adult men, and household
tasks such as food preparation (10) was/ were the job of the strong, younger mothers.

Therefore, it was up to the grandmothers to educate the children, and they told stories to do it.

<n wen, ALakota language class at
Red Cloud Indian School in
South Dakota

B ANALYZE THE GRAMMAR. Find four singular count nouns, four plural count nouns, and four
non-count nouns from the text in exercise A. Write them in your notebook. Then work with a
partner and compare your lists of nouns.

ea 2 EDIT. Read the information about stories. Find and correct eight more errors with nouns,
8.1-5.6 articles, and subject-verb agreement.
has
Every culture and country frave stories to pass down to the younger generation, and the young

learns a lot of things from the stories. The stories also bring joy to a great deal of children.

138 NOUNS, ARTICLES, AND SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
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