Plurals

Ican recognize and use regular and irregular plurals.

IMe got six

noses and ten

Regular -s plurals *1 O 4.1 Write the words in the correct columi

Listen and check. ©
We add -s to a noun to form the plural of many nouns. books ba§ computers guitar jacket
pens pencils phone rulers television

Singular Plural

*2 Write the plurals.

ÿ dog

1 guitar
2 bag
3 phone
4 carrot
5 photo
6 umbrella
a piano pianos 7 queen
But some nouns ending in o are different. 8 snake
a potato potatoes 9 tomato
10 jacket

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Regular -es plurals

one watch four watches one bus one box three boxes

Nouns ending in -s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x

We add -es to form the plural of these nouns.
a bus buses
a watch watches
a box boxes

Pronunciation
The plural forms of nouns ending in -s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x have a
So do plural forms ending in -ses, -ges, -ces, -zes.

watch wat ches house hou-ses

*3 Write the plurals for the pictui *4 Tick/ the correct ending for each plural.

O ÿ pen
bus
-S0 -esD
-SD -esD
2 page -sD -esQ
ÿ watch 3 apple -sD -esQ
Watches
4 class -sD -esD
5 van -sD -esD
6 box -sD -esQ
7 horse -sD -esD
8 cake -sD -esD
9 sandwich -sD -esQ
10 tomato -sD -esQ

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55 0O4.2 Listen to the examples and write the *6 Choose the correct plural form.
plurals from exercise 4 in the correct column.
ÿ >!ÿ Then listen and check.
No extra syllable Extra syllable
pens b uses

ÿ puppys /(ffuppiesÿ 4 shelfs / shelves

m
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Regular -ies and -ves plurals
For nouns ending msonant + -y, we delete
y and add (Í
a baby -» baby -» babies 1 lorrys / lorries 5 keys/keyes

o
ending in vowel 2 boys/boies 6 strawberrys/
a boy boys strawberries

3 babys /babies 7 knifes / knives

For nouns ending in -f or -fe, we delete -f/fe
and add -ves. *7 Write the plurals.
a shelf-* shelf + -ves -»shelves ÿ family families
a knife -» knife + -ves -*knives _
1 day
2 story _
3 thief _
4 monkey _
5 body _

6 party _
7 toy _
8 life _
9 city -
10 key _

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Irregular plurals 5 O 4.3 Look at the pictures on the left and write

Some nouns have irregular plurals.

the correct words. Listen and check.
ÿ two teeth
O
1 three
2 four -
3 five
_
_ o
5 seven _
6 eight_
7 nine _
child children

*9 O4.4 Look at the nouns below, then count

them in the picture. Listen and check.
bag box child glass fish man
©
nose strawberry woman

a sheep sheep

a foot feet

ÿ one
1 two
2 three
3 four
a person people a tooth teeth 4 five
5 six
6 seven
7 eight
8 nine
9 fifteen

0 Memory test. Study the picture in

a fish fish a goose geese the objects that are the s¡

to page 135.
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*11 Correct the mistake in each question. 1404.5 Listen to someone talk about their
classroom.Write the number you hear for each
ÿ sixfcarY men / houses
© picture.

1 one:woman / geese / page

2 three: feet / sofas / bus ÿ (&)«( 1/

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3 two: tooth / sheep / people

i one: mice / fish / dress

5 four: children / boys / horse

6 three: women / glass / fish

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*12 Write the plural forms of the nouns in the
correct box. ]hh[ÿ
O baby beach coke child dress foot
fox house key lorry sofa woman
d

f Write about your class. Use the words

/ from e:
-s -es

cakes e twentyse

-ies Irregular

*13 Work in pairs. Practise saying the

plural forms of the words from
this unit.

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