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Plural of nouns
Grammar lesson
Plural of nouns
Regular plurals
1 Add s.
2 Add es to:
ch
o
s
sh
x
Singular
girl
boy
Plural
girls
boys
bench
tomato
bus
bush
box
benches
tomatoes
buses
bushes
boxes
3 After a consonant change y to ies.
baby
babies
Irregular plurals
In the park I see a man, a woman with two
babies, and two old women on a bench.
At the bus stop I see two men and three
children – a boy and two girls. The boy is Nick.
And look – it’s Trig in the bushes!
Words to learn
baby
box
1
bench
foot
child
tooth
18
bush
bird
Write the words in the correct lists.
person cities boys women
child feet people man
buses bird foot babies
Singular
child
foot
man
woman
person
tooth
Plural
children
feet
men
women
people
teeth
Pronunciation
/s/ after /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /T/: pets
/Iz/ after /s/, /z/, /S/, /Z/, /tS/, /dZ/: buses
/z/ after other sounds: girls
Singular (one)
Plural (more than one)
person
cities
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Write the correct words.
3
Write the plurals in the correct lists.
boy girl child baby country
person woman animal bench
tomato bird bus man foot
city tooth apple cake
▸ s e u o s h houses
s
es and ies
irregular
boys
countries
people
1 hldecirn
2 etfe
4
Write the plural words.
grape
peach
fig
3 bbasie
date
radish
4 exsob
cucumber
▸ p g a r s e grapes
1 dasrihse
5 mnowe
2 eschpae
3 mbcucersu
4 gfsi
5 dtase
6 httee
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Complete the words.
▸ grap
es
na
na
1 ba
4 cucumbe
2 potato
r
5 carrot
3 melon
8 lemon
7 cherr
h
6 radis
10 tomato
9 orange
ate
d
11
12 fig
6
13 strawberr
14 peach
15 apple
How many? Count and write.
3
▸
1
2
4
5
10
6
8
9
7
▸ two apples
3
6
9
1
4
7
10
2
5
8
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What’s different? Look at the pictures and write. Use the words in the box.
bus baby woman bench
bush man dog child bird
In picture A I see
In picture B I see
one bus
two buses
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Team game
The teacher writes the following words
on the board: child, tooth, foot, man,
woman, peach, bush, tomato, cherry,
potato, box. A student from Team A
draws a picture of a pair of one of the
things from the list on the board (e.g.
two children, two feet). Team B has to
say what the picture shows and write the
answer on the board. The teacher gives
them a point if the spoken and written
answers are both correct. A student from
Team B then draws something.
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