H5 - week 46 - lesson 1

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Today's objectives

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Period 2

Nouns plural forms - common rules & exceptions

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Grammar 

Vocabulary

Irregular verbs

Period 2

• Short stories - What/how (length/characteristics/elements)
  
• Grammar (nouns: plurals/articles/word order/adverbs)
  
• Vocabulary (rest of booklet E-N:  H-Z)
  

Period 3

• Writing (Grammar/Vocab to help you write!!!)
  
• Listening
• Exam (Reading) preparation (prefixes/expressions/signal words)

Nouns - plural forms - part I

• What is the common plural form?.
• When do nouns take "-ES" as their plural form? (Rule + exceptions)
  


• When do nouns take "-IES" as their plural form (Rule + exceptions)
• When do nouns take "-VES" as their plural form (Rule + exceptions)
• Which 3 other plural forms other than the above exist? 

Nouns - plural forms - part I

1. -S What is the common plural form?.
   
2. When do nouns take "-ES" as their plural form? (Rule + exceptions)
   
3. When do nouns take "-IES" as their plural form (Rule + exceptions)
   
4. When do nouns take "-VES" as their plural form (Rule + exceptions)
   
5. Which 3 other plural forms other than the above exist? > chairs/trees/dogs etc.
   

1. -ES -> kisses/buses/watches/boxes etc.
   
2. -ES -> tomatoes/potatoes/heroes etc. -> STUDY THE EXCEPTIONS (e.g. photos)
   
3. -Y -> ie -> ladies/babies/cries etc. -> STUDY THE EXCEPTIONS (e.g. turkeys
   
4. -F -> ves -> thieves/loaves/lives etc. -> STUDY THE EXCEPTIONS (e.g. handkerchiefs)
   
5. -EN -> children/oxen / Change in vowel -> foot-feet, mouse-mice, louse-lice, goose-geese, woman-women etc. -> STUDY!!!!!/ Singular = Plural -> sheep/series/means/deer/Chinese (-ese) etc. -> STUDY!!!!

Nouns - plural forms

• Agreement Subject/noun (countable) -> Both men put out their cigarettes/ Women love cats (Women love coffee/Women love their cups of coffee in the morning.)
  

• Plural noun as adjective takes singular form -> a twenty-pound note, a hundred-dollar bill
  

• Crew/family/team/cattle/people/police -> plural form when referring to all members -> The police have arrested the thieves./Dutch people don't want to give up Sinterklaas.
  

• People (volk)/Peoples (volkeren) -> the indigenous peoples of North Africa

Practice

Blue booklet

ex. A/B/C - p. 25/26