13th Session Nouns & Adjectives
Nouns= Sustantivos
Countable Regular Nouns Singular Adding s Car Student House Kitchen Sofa Ball Bed
Plural Singular Plural Adding s Adding es Adding es Cars Box Boxes Students Kiss Kisses Houses Tomato Tomatoes Kitchens Wish Wishes Sofas Sandwich Sandwiches Balls Beds
Consonant+y Drop “Y” Add ies City Cities Words ending in /f/ sound Wife Wolf
Vowel+y
Add s
Valley
Valleys
Countable Irregular Nouns Singular Plural Child Person Woman Man Tooth Foot
Children People Women Men Teeth Feet
Uncountable Nouns
Water Oil Patience Love Money Homework Sugar
Drop “fe” “f” Add ves Wives Wolves
*Piano *Roof
In English, we only pluralize nouns. Adjectives NO My car is fast
/
My cars are fast
Pereira is a nice city
/
Colombia has nice cities to visit
Indefinite Articles A / An We use the indefinite articles A / An only with Singular Countable Nouns A A A A A A A A
A + Consonant Sound car tower Fox Book paper hospital university uniform
An An An An An An An
An + Vowel Sound Apple Ear Indian Orange umbrella Honest Hour
Let’s check some links https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/capitalization.htm https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/various/noun_verb2.htm https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/singular_plural4.htm https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/singular.htm https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/singular2.htm https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/singular3.htm https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/singular_plural.htm https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/singular_plural3.htm
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/plural3.htm https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/nouns_articles/plural4.htm https://www.focus.olsztyn.pl/en-plural-nouns-and-singular-nouns.html
Adjectives What is the function of an adjective? They describe someone or something Adjectives
Opposites Intelligent Black Small Clean Tall Beautiful Long
Dumb White Big Dirty Short Ugly Short https://agendaweb.org/grammar/adjectives-exercises.html https://www.mes-games.com/adjectives1.php
https://www.eslgamesplus.com/adjectives-and-antonyms-sentences-esl-interactive-fun-game/
Match the opposite adjectives
Asnwer Key alive beautiful big bitter cheap clean curly difficult good early fat full hot happy hardworking modern new nice intelligent interesting light polite poor quiet right safe short small soft single true well white
dead ugly small sweet expensive dirty straight easy bad late thin empty cold sad/unhappy lazy traditional old nasty stupid boring heavy rude/impolite rich noisy wrong dangerous long big hard married false ill/unwell black
The adjectives go before the Noun Adjectives + Nouns A Beautiful girl / A Clean bedroom /A White wall / An Intelligent man
With the verb to be is different This house is big / My shoes are clean / The cat isn’t black
Exercise In pairs write down a couple of questions using adjectives and be ready to answer your classmates’ questions using the opposite. Examples: A: Are Sandra’s shoes white? B: No, they are black A: Diamonds are cheap. B: No, they aren’t. They’re expensive. A: Most people drink their coffee cold. B: No, they don’t. They prefer it hot. A: Few Colombian politicians tell lies. B: Most Colombian politicians don’t tell the truth. A: El Tunel de la Línea is an old construction. B: No, it isn’t. It’s a new one. A: Modern capital cities don’t have fast mean of transport B: It’s the opposite, modern capital cities don’t have slow mean of transport
Tomorrow’s Activity Let’s organize these words in the correct order happy when heard he My paid uncle very is gets
seems That dirty restaurant countless machinery are There the problems with
partners like don’t work with to careless I gym I to see athletic the go bodies to foreign Learning Alzheimer a delay language could by people Black are sheep usually bad considered worthless other or wants some soup She to bean buy now They room in ladies are the
My uncle is very happy when he gets paid. That restaurant seems dirty. There are countless problems with the machinery. I don’t like to work with careless partners. I go to the gym to see athletic bodies. Learning a foreign language could delay Alzheimer. Black sheep are usually considered bad or worthless by other people. She wants to buy some bean soup They are now in the ladies room