December 7th, 2012 – Class N° 6

Grammar Focus review – page 6

Review of the exercises 1 to 7 and remembering some expressions:

- I’m looking for: estoy buscando

- Over there: allí

Tips of pronunciation

|s| sound: When words finish in letters p – k – f – t – θ.

Examples: shop – shops book – books giraffe – giraffes hat - hats

|s| |s| |s| |s|

|z| sound: When words finish in all other letters.

Examples: dog – dogs tree – trees flower – flowers pencil - pencils

|z| |z| |z| |z|

|iz| sound: When we have endings in “es”

Examples: fox – foxes – box - boxes

|iz| |iz|

When we say the indefinite article a or an?

A + Consonant sound An + Vowel sound

A cat – a game of golf – a human emotion An apple, an easy job, an interesting film,
– a Peruvian – a very fat woman an old man, an umbrella

Vowel letter with consonant sound Consonant letter with vowel sound

A European country An honest man

A one – day conference An hour
A university An FBI agent

BE CAREFUL: We pronounce a as |a| BUT not as |ei| because a is an indefinite article

but no the letter A of the alphabet.
Pronunciation of the definite article “The”

|ᵭa| + Consonant sound |ᵭi| + Vowel sound

The cat – the game of golf – the human The apple, the easy job, the interesting
emotion – the Peruvian – the very fat film, the old man, the umbrella
woman

Vowel letter with consonant sound Consonant letter with vowel sound
|ᵭa| |ᵭi|

The European country The honest man

The one – day conference The hour
The university The FBI agent

PRACTICE

The man enters the bar and looks around. Then he sees her. The woman looks
beautiful. When she notices him, she looks into the eyes of the man. He walks towards
the lady, gives her a kiss and hands her the orange flower.

When we use a/an or the?

The definite article The is used to metion a particular thing

The indefinite article a/an is used to mention a thing in general.

Examples:

- The capital of France is Paris BUT I was born in a town (in any town)

- I clean the car BUT she buys a car (any car)

- I have a blue pencil BUT do you have a pen (any pen)

PRACTICE

A man and a woman were walking in Oxford Street. The woman saw a dress that she
liked in a shop. She asked the man if he could buy the dress for her. He said: "Do you
think the shop will accept a cheque? I don't have a credit card."
Homework:

Finish the page 6 and practice the first text to read it faster.