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vocabulary continents • reading a quiz about countries • critical thinking comparing countries •
grammar a/an • grammar plural nouns • pronunciation plural nouns • speaking countries
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Vocabulary continents Grammar plural nouns

1 2.15 Listen and repeat the continents. Singular Plural

Africa Europe an apartment apartments
Antarctica North America a mountain mountains
Asia South America a place places
Australia a city cities
a class classes
2 Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about
countries and continents. Now look at page 160.
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Is Malawi in Africa? 8 Look at the grammar box. Write the plural form

of the nouns.
Yes, it is. 1 continent

Reading 2 island
3 page
4 country
3 Read the quiz. Underline the continents. 5 beach
www.english0905.com 5 Work in pairs. Match the descriptions (A–D) 9 Pronunciation plural nouns
6 book
4 Read the quiz again. Match the descriptions
7 desk
(A–D) with four of these countries.
8 exercise

Colombia
Japan
9 laptop

Ecuador

Mexico

10 pen

Portugal
France

11 photo

Jamaica

Vietnam
12 day

13 number

with the photos.

Photo 3

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 4
2.17 Listen and repeat these nouns.
Critical thinking comparing a /s/ /z/ /ɪz/
apartments
cities
classes
countries picnics mountains languages
students rivers places
6 Read the quiz again. Are the places similar to or
different from your country? b Write the sound /s/, /z/, or /ɪz/ next to the
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plural forms in Exercise 8.
Grammar a/an c Work in pairs. Take turns being Student A and
a + noun with b, c, d, f, … an + noun with a, e, i, o, u Student B.
a beach an island Student A: Say a singular noun.
Student B: Say the plural.
Now look at page 160.
7 Look at the grammar box. Write a or an. Speaking my life
1 Jakarta is city.
2 Tenerife is island. 10 Work in pairs. Tell your partner about your
3 Algeria is country. country or a different country.
4 water buffalo is animal.
5 The Amazon is river. I’m from Japan. The capital city is
6 riko65@et9.edu is email address. Tokyo. A symbol of my country is …
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