LESSON
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Nouns and Articles
Grammar Introduction A
Singular and Plural Nouns Singular
Plural
doctor hospital
doctors hospitals
wish dress
wishes dresses
-s/-es
piano hero tomato zero
pianos heroes tomatoes zeros/zeroes
-ies
butterfly city
butterflies cities
-ves
wolf life
wolves lives
child deer person
children deer people
-s -es
Irregular
· Common irregular plural nouns: foot - feet
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man - men
mouse - mice
·Singular means ‘one.’ Plural means ‘two or more.’ ·To make most nouns plural, add -s. ·Noun ending: -ch, -sh, -s, -x ·Plural form: Add -es. ·Noun ending: -o · Plural form: Add -s or -es. -s: photos, pianos, radios, videos, zoos -es: heroes, potatoes, tomatoes -s or -es: zeros/zeroes
·Noun ending: a consonant + -y ·Plural form: Change y to i and add -es. ·Noun ending: -f or -fe ·Plural form: Change f or fe to v and add -es. ·No rules
sheep - sheep
tooth - teeth
Write the plural form.
1 glass
8 brush
2 knife
9 piano
3 person
10 story
4 potato
11 movie
5 country
12 shelf
6 marker
13 tooth
7 zoo
14 life
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woman - women
B
Count and Non-Count Nouns Singular Count Noun Non-Count Noun
a dress a piano one wolf
Plural six dresses three pianos nine wolves
· Count nouns can be counted with numbers. They have singular and plural forms.
· Non-count nouns cannot be counted with numbers.
meat money soup
-
They have singular forms only.
·Do not use a or an with non-count nouns.
· Common non-count nouns:
bread, butter, cheese, glue, homework, juice, meat, milk, money, rain, rice, salt, snow, soup, sugar
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Circle the correct word(s). 1 I see a man / men and three wolf / wolves . 2 Do you want bread / breads and a butter / butter ? 3 A mouse / mice likes a cheese / cheese .
C
Articles: Indefinite, Definite, and No Articles a face a story
a green apple a large egg
an
an apple an egg
an ugly face an interesting story
the
My dad is in the living room. Why is the sky blue?
Ø
He plays basketball. My favorite subject is math. She speaks Spanish.
a
Indefinite Article Definite Article No Article
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·A and an mean ‘one.’ ·Use a or an with singular nouns. ·Put a before a consonant. ·Put an before a vowel. · Use the before nouns that are ‘specific’ or ‘one and only.’
· Do not use articles before sports, school subjects, and languages.
Write a, an, the, or Ø. 1 There is 2 Jake can play 3 Did you see
monster in the lake.
monster is huge and dangerous.
soccer, but he can’t play
baseball.
moon last night? It was very big and round.
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Grammar Practice A Choose and write. Change the word form if necessary. deer
hero
leaf
1 There are three 2 Some
meat
piano
sugar
tooth
behind the trees. They’re beautiful! change colors in the fall. They turn red, orange, or yellow.
3 My mom doesn’t put milk or
in her coffee. She likes it black.
4 What are your Christmas
? What do you want?
5 This music is for two
. We need two players.
6 Firefighters are
. They save people from fires.
7 Do you brush your
after each meal?
8 Cows eat grass. They don’t eat
.
B Write a, an, the, or Ø.
1 I see a cat in a hat. The cat is white, and 2 We usually don’t have 3 My dad can speak
orange sofa in the living room. science. It’s my favorite subject.
7 We’re late. Let’s take 8 The Moon moves around
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homework on weekends.
heater. The room is too hot.
5 There is
6
hat is blue.
Chinese. He’s very good.
4 Please turn down
6 I like
wish
taxi. Earth.
LESSON 1
Grammar in Context A Circle and write about yourself. Change the word form if necessary.
1 I live / don’t live in a small
.
2 I drink / don’t drink
basketball
every day.
foot
3 I eat / don’t eat
often.
4 I have / don’t have big
city milk
.
5 I play / don’t play
story tomato
after school.
6 I like / don’t like scary
.
B Choose and write. Change the word from if necessary.
Dear Mom and Dad, I’m having
great time here at summer camp. I made
some new
already. There are ten kids in my cabin. They
are from all over
world. We all know
English,
so we can talk to one another. Tomorrow will be
exciting day. We’ll ride
!
I’ll wear my cowboy hat and boots! It’s time for bed now. Good night! Love, Kai
a
an
the
Ø
friend
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Count and Non-Count Nouns
Subject and Object Pronouns
Demonstratives and Possessives 1
Possessives 2
L2
L3
L4
L5
Present Simple
Present Simple and Frequency Adverbs
Present Continuous
Present Simple vs. Present Continuous
Future: Will
L7
L8
L9
L10
L11
Past Simple: Irregular Verbs and Be
Modal Verbs
L13
L14
There + Be
Infinitives as Objects
Gerunds as Objects
Information Questions
L19
L20
L21
L22
Sentence Structures
Prepositions of Place
L18
L22
L21
L20
L19
L18
L17
Types of Sentences
Information Questions
Conditionals: If
Relative Clauses
Direct and Indirect Objects
Infinitives and Gerunds
Sentence Structures
Prepositions of Place and Movement
Prepositions
Prepositions of Time
L16
L17
Prepositions of Time
L15
Adverbs
L16
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Comparisons
Comparisons and Conjunctions
Adverbs
Adjectives
Adjectives and Adverbs
Modal Verbs
Future: Will/Be Going To
Past Simple: Irregular Verbs
Past Simple: Regular Verbs
Present Continuous
Present Simple
Present and Past: Be
Verbs and Modal Verbs
Pronouns and Possessives
Quantity Words
Nouns and Articles
Adjectives
L14
L13
L12
L11
L10
L9
L8
L7
L6
L5
L4
L3
L2
L1
Nouns and Pronouns
Review and expansion of targets from Book 2
Tag Questions Direct and Indirect Speech
L22
Relative Clauses
Causative Verbs L21
L20
L19
Infinitives 2
Infinitives 1 L18
Gerunds L17
The Passive
Sentence Structures
Conjunctions
Comparisons
L16
L15
L14
L13
Sense Verbs
L12
Comparisons and Conjunctions
Modal Verbs 2
Modal Verbs 1
Modal Verbs and Sense Verbs
Present Perfect
L11
L10
L9
Future
Past Continuous L8
Past Simple
L7
Present Continuous
Present Simple
Verbs
Somebody/Anything/Nowhere
Pronouns and Possessives
Nouns and Articles
L6
L5
L4
L3
L2
L1
Nouns and Pronouns
New targets from Book 3
Review and expansion of targets from Book 1
New targets from Book 2
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Review and expansion of targets from Book 1
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L15
Adjectives and Adverbs
Past Simple: Regular Verbs
L12
More on Verbs and Modal Verbs
Present Simple: Be
L6
Verbs
Singular and Plural Nouns
L1
Nouns and Pronouns
New targets from Book 1
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