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Singular and plural nouns Listening

singular
singular Cats and dogs
neck
A giraffe has got a long .
A giraffe has got a long .
neck

• I can identify specific information in a radio programme.
plural
plural
1 Look at the pictures. What is unusual about
legs
An octopus has got eight .
An octopus has got eight . the animals?
legs

Spelling: singular and plural nouns
for most nouns, add s
dog dogs toe toes
for nouns that end in –ch, –sh, –s, –o, –x or
–z, add es
branch branches

for some nouns that end in –f, –fe,
change f to v and add es or s
leaf leaves knife knives

for nouns that end in consonant and –y,
change y to i, add es

fly flies
irregular plurals

child children foot feet

man men mouse mice

person people sheep sheep
Listen to the radio programme and check
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tooth teeth woman women
your answers to Exercise 1.
4 Complete the text about Alex’s favourite 3 Listen again and choose the correct words.
animal with the plural form of the words
Victoria Education and Training JSC − victoria.vn−
in brackets. 1 Manx cats are from Ireland / the UK.
2 Manx cats have got long back legs / teeth.
My favourite (1) … (animal) are (2) … (rat). 3 Its legs are similar to a dog / rabbit.
They’re in the same family as (3) … (mouse) 4 Many kinds of dogs / Only Dalmatians have
but they’re intelligent. They’ve got long got two different colours of eyes.

(4) … (body), short (5) … (leg), pink (6) … 5 Dalmatian puppies haven’t got spots / eyes.

(tail), pink (7) … (nose) and they’ve got very
sharp (8) … (tooth). Their (9) … (baby)

haven’t got hair. A lot of (10) … (person)
think they’re horrible but I love them!
CLASS VOTE
4 Which is your favourite
animal? A cat or a dog?

5 Use Alex's text to write some sentences about
your favourite animals.

My favourite animals are … . They’re in the same In English, the sentence ‘It rains cats
family as … .They’ve got … . and dogs’ means it rains very heavily.

6 Work in pairs.
INTERFACE
Compare your sentences.
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