Grammar plurals

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 2

Welcome! 

Today

After this lesson, you can use plurals to talk about more than one thing (A2). 

• Speaking and stones: What do you remember? 
• Grammar: instruction. 
• Grammar: time to work on the exercises yourself. 

Rounding off 

1. Decide in pairs who is the salesperson and who is the customer. 
2. Take 30 seconds to prepare what you're going to say. 
3. Have a conversation for a minute. 
4. Tell me what Stone sentences and theme words you have used. 

Use stone 10 or 11 on pages 

Can you figure out the rule? 

• Complete exercise 27b on page 26. 
• Which rule(s) do you have for the plurals in English? 

How to make the plurals 

1. Add an -s to the word.  
2. Does the word end in a sis sound or a consonant + o?  (except piano, photo, solo..) --> Add -es to the word. 
3. Does the word end in consonant + y? change to -ies. 
4. Does the word end in -f or -fe? Change to -ves. 
5. Irregular: chef --> chefs
6. Stay the same. 

• one hero --> two heroes, one volcano --> two volcanoes. 

1. one city --> two _______________ 
2. one bag --> two _______________ 
3. one boy --> two _______________ 

Time to work on your own 

• Vmbo-tl: Complete exercises 28, 29a, 30, 31 and 32. 
• Havo: complete exercises 28, 29ab, 30, 31 and 32. 

Tip: Don't use a dictionary for exercise 30, but you may use google translate. 

Time: 15 minutes. 

Voice level: first five minutes in silence. 

Finished early? Complete the extra worksheet and the crossword puzzle. 

Answers

Exercise 28: 

Exercise 29: 

1. Many young children played in the playground this morning. 
2. She has many colourful scarves. 
3. We have many sheep at the petting zoo. 
4. We saw many fish when we were snorkelling in the ocean. 
5. The shop has many shelves with books. 
6. I saw many men doing tai chi in the park today. 

Answers

Exercise 29b. 

Exercise 30: 

Exercise 31 & 32: 

• Exchange your Stepping Stones with the person next to you. Can you find the plurals? Are they written correctly? 

Can you now? 

1. one party --> two _____________
2. one wolf --> two ______________ 
3. one mouse --> a couple of ___________ 

Homework: study everything you've learned so far: theme words shopping 1 and 2, Stone 10 and 11, vocabulary A and C and the plurals.