This lesson contains 24 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
Lesson duration is: 45 min
Items in this lesson
theme 6
after this lesson students will have learned:
* The difference between much and many.
* How to use and form plurals (meervoud)
Welcome back!
Slide 1 - Slide
How many shoes
Wow! You have many shoes! How much money did you pay for all of them?!
Much vs Many
Slide 2 - Slide
much and many
You use much and many to indicate that there is more than one of something. Or even to indicate that there's lots of it.
for instance: I have many books.
If you can count, you can follow this lesson...
Slide 3 - Slide
much and many
there are two kinds of nouns.
countable ones and uncountable ones.
Slide 4 - Slide
much and many
There are two kinds of nouns.
countable ones and uncountable ones.
Countable (telbaar) are nouns you can count.
Books, cars, shoes, dogs and so on.
DUH!
Uncountable nouns are nouns you can't count.
Water, love, traffic, smoke and so on.
notice how these nouns have plurals and singulars!
Slide 5 - Slide
much and many
We use MUCH for the uncountable nouns.
# I have so much work to do.
# There's so much love in the world.
# There was too much traffic to get here in time.
Slide 6 - Slide
much and many
You use manywhen you can count the nouns.
# He has many pairs of shoes.
# There are many stars in the universe.
# My grandma has many children.
It's really hard but you can count the stars...
Slide 7 - Slide
much and many
You can also use them in a negative or interrogative way.
# I don't have much time.
# Does he read many books?
# How much money do you have?
huh?! But you can count money, can't you? No! You can count the notes and the coins!
let's practise! get out your phones!
Slide 8 - Slide
fill in much or many: 1: He like ... films. 2: She doesn't have ... milk left. 3: They don't have ... telephones in their house. 4: How ... dogs do they own? 5: I don't think ... children like sprouts.
Slide 9 - Open question
Not too many please! I want to get on with the rest of the lesson. Because there is still so much to do!
Do you have any questions?
Slide 10 - Slide
Plurals
Slide 11 - Slide
plurals
what are plurals?
plurals is een moeilijk woord voor meervouden.
countable nouns come in a singular and plural form.
telbare zelfstandignaamwoorden bestaan in een enkelvouds- en een meervoudsvorm
Slide 12 - Slide
plurals
In het NL zijn er veel varianten:
1 bloem - 12 bloemen
1 computer - 6 computers
1 kind - 30 kinderen
In English we mostly add an -s at the end.
Slide 13 - Slide
plurals
In English we mostly add an -s at the end.
1 book - 4 books
1 house - 2 houses
1 guest - 30 guests
Slide 14 - Slide
plurals
But of course there are exceptions:
Slide 15 - Slide
plurals
additional rules (extra regels):
# words ending in a hissing sound get -es
# words ending in -o get -es
# words ending with a -y get - ies
# words ending with an -f get -ves
but not always!
but not always!
but not always!
Slide 16 - Slide
plurals
words ending in a hissing sound get -es
Slide 17 - Slide
plurals
Words ending in -o get -es.
But not always! Disco, Euro and photo are new words and simply get an -s.
Discos, Euros and photos. Also, when there is a vowel before the -o you just add an -s. Kangaroos, radios...
Slide 18 - Slide
plurals
Words ending in -y get -ies.
But not always! Words that end with a vowel and -y simply get an -s.
tray -> trays, key -> keys, day -> days.
Slide 19 - Slide
plurals
Words ending in -f get -ves.
But not always! There are words ending with an -f that simply get an -s.
Hoof -> hoofs, roof -> roofs, cliff -> cliffs.
Slide 20 - Slide
plurals
let's practise!
get out your phones!
Slide 21 - Slide
Make plurals of the following words: cat, tomato, box, party, apple.
Slide 22 - Open question
make plurals of the following words: city, hero, house, wolf, donkey.