Word Formation: Compound Nouns
Starter
Show learners the first slide and the list of words. Have the learners discuss what they think the words have in common in pairs or small groups. In the next slide, explain that they are all compound nouns.
Compound nouns are formed with a base word, which is always a noun, and a specifying word, that can belong to several word classes.
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Word Formation: Compound Nouns
Starter
Look at this list of words. What do they all have in common?
alarm clock, birthday, football, homework, sunflower, weekend
How are these words different to ones like car, dog or house?
These words are all nouns which are made by combining two nouns together.
These types of words called compound words or in this case compound nouns.