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Grammar lesson
Plural of nouns
Regular plurals 1 Add s. 2 Add es to: ch o s sh x Singular girl boy bench tomato bus bush box Plural girls boys benches tomatoes buses bushes boxes

3 After a consonant change y to ies. baby babies Irregular plurals In the park I see a man, a woman with two babies, and two old women on a bench. At the bus stop I see two men and three children a boy and two girls. The boy is Nick. And look its Trig in the bushes! Singular child foot man woman person tooth Plural children feet men women people teeth

Words to learn
baby box bench foot child bush tooth bird

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Pronunciation /s/ after /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /T/: pets /Iz/ after /s/, /z/, /S/, /Z/, /tS/, /dZ/: buses /z/ after other sounds: girls

Write the words in the correct lists. person cities boys women child feet people man buses bird foot babies

Singular (one)

Plural (more than one)

person

cities

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Write the correct words.

Write the plurals in the correct lists. boy girl child baby country person woman animal bench tomato bird bus man foot city tooth apple cake s es and ies irregular

s e u o s h houses

boys
1 hldecirn

countries

people

2 etfe

Write the plural words.

peach fig

grape

3 bbasie
date radish

4 exsob

cucumber

p g a r s e grapes 1 dasrihse 5 mnowe 2 eschpae 3 mbcucersu 4 gfsi 5 dtase 6 httee

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Complete the words.

grap es
na 1 ba
4 cucumbe 3 melon

na

2 potato

5 carrot
10 tomato

h 6 radis
ate d 11

7 cherr

8 lemon

9 orange

12 g

13 strawberr

14 peach

15 apple

How many? Count and write.

3 1 2 5 10

8 7

two apples 1 2

3 4 5

6 7 8

9 10

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Whats different? Look at the pictures and write. Use the words in the box. bus baby woman bench bush man dog child bird

In picture A I see

In picture B I see

one bus

two buses

Team game
The teacher writes the following words on the board: child, tooth, foot, man, woman, peach, bush, tomato, cherry, potato, box. A student from Team A draws a picture of a pair of one of the things from the list on the board (e.g. two children, two feet). Team B has to say what the picture shows and write the answer on the board. The teacher gives them a point if the spoken and written answers are both correct. A student from Team B then draws something.

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