LESSON 1: MY FAMILY
THE PLURAL NUMBER OF NOUNS
Repeat after your teacher:
[s] [z] [iz]
book – books pen – pens box – boxes
desk – desks girl – girls bench – benches
map – maps wall – walls bush – bushes
cat – cats dog – dogs
boy – boys
door – doors
window – windows
! În limba engleză, pluralul substantivelor se formează adăugînd
terminaţia –s, care se citeşte [s], [z] sau –es, care se citeşte [iz]:
one map – two maps [s]
one boy – three boys [z]
one bench – four benches [iz]
Read these words:
maps, girls, doors, boxes, desks, windows, benches, chairs, books, teachers,
pencil-boxes, dogs, cats, lessons, balls, trees.
Give the plural of:
a car - a friend - a bed –
a box - a day - a cup -
a room - a page - a hat –
a bed - a table - a circle -
Read the nouns in the plural using the numbers given in brackets:
e.g. a notebook (25) – twenty-five notebooks
a big apple (10), a small box (4), a new word (34), an expensive dress (3),
an old bench (6), an English book (45), a green tree (11), a white house (7),
a lovely child (2).
Writer a or an.
__ lady __ child __ book
__ dish __ egg __ family
__ word __ student __ apartment
__ apple __ dress __ man
__ coat __ house __ address
__ orange __ umbrella
If necessary add a or an.
That’s ___ pencil. I’m ___ student.
Those are ___ doors. Those are ___ cameras.
These are ___ oranges. That’s ___ photo.
This is ___ boy. Mary is ___ baby.
They’re ___ teachers. These are ___ exercises.
He’s ___ doctor. The boys are ___ students.
That’s ___ apple. That’s ___ notebook.
This is ___ dress. This is ___ old book.