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les-Uncountables ® Most nouns form their plural by adding -s. ‘® Nouns ending In a consonant + y, drop the ~y and take -les in the plural. oe { two cars a strawberry three strawberries ® Nouns ending in-s, -ss,-sh, -ch, -x,-0, take-es @ Nouns ending in-f or -fe, drop the f or-fe and in the plu take -ves in the plural. bus - buses, dress - dresses, brush - brushes, 4 tomato two tomatoes aleaf four ao 4 Dos ‘two wolves But some nouns ending in -o take only -s. But some nouns ending in -f or -f take only-s. radio - radios, piano - pianos, photo - photos, 5 thino - rhinos, hippo - hippos, video - videos, etc, roof - roots, giratte - giraffes, clift-clitfs, etc. ° Kome ending in a vowel + y take -s in the ® Adjectives do not take -s in the plural. 2d OM a happy girl two happy girle glass key piano potato ball book BA = ‘Some nouns are irregular. For example: policeman raspberry sandwich... mouse photo lift 2 . 7 pen tall WOMAN sean watch KOE cnr 19 big foot .. 10 toy. 20. nice book Plurals/Countables-Unco 4 duck 7 giraffe 2 ostrich 8 deer 3. parrot 9 calf 4 swan. 40 fox 5 turkey... 44 mouse 6 dolphin .. 42 hippo Write the words in plural in the correct box. bicycle, bus, cherry, knife, man, glass, child, house, apple, box, baby, ball, tomato, ferry, leaf, tooth, goose, radio, cliff, dress, torch, city, wile, ox, deer, Calf, fox, gitalfe, watch, parrot, lady, wolf, dish, boy, woman, melon, sheep, armchair 3 bieycloe, “8 buse9, ies cherries, ~ves knives, irregular mer, é Plurals/Countables- & wriiealenensones ‘Some uncountable nouns can be made countable by using the following words in front of them: jr, bottle, plece, loaf, cup, bar, glass, kilo, carton, bowl, can, jug, slice, tin, packet, etc. = ajar ofmarmalade a bottle ofbeer a plece of pe @ = & CS) alostofesd acip ofcotiee a bar of chocolate ef wv 7 A = = agiaee ot mk — aliootmest a cartonof milk os bon ot soup acanoF fuitjice a jag of orange juice asiceottresd — atinotfich a pactet of epaghetti a Om Match the words as in the example: 13... lemons 14... bread 15. ........ doll See 6 ...... leaves Sd bread Scanishleianceistiaets eae eT lemonade beans ea 2 orange juice 3 cake 4 5 coffee : ole 8 soap ‘10 AO) sake the fotowing nouns countab 1 two cups of coffee. -Uncountables Write how many you can see in the pictures. » Do this activity In pairs. One of you is the grocer ‘and the other Is the customer. Look at the pictures : Hello! Can I help you? : Yes please. | need a kilo of strawberries 9. SA SB: {and two kilos of carrots. SA: Anything else? SB: Yes. A carton of orange juice and two tins of beans. SA: Here you are. P.O” SB: Thank you. strawberes Beoivomsunas evounons some Coke - two glasses/botties/cane of Coke some bread - three ........ Lu some chocolate - four some water - five some cheese - two ‘some meat - three some wine - eight. ‘some salmon - four .. some milk - ten .. " some soap - four ........ Circle the uncountable noun in each group. Giniture>chair, table, desk polaio, carrot, tomato, soup coffee, cup, glass, jug sheep, meat, ox, calf apple, strawberry, chocolate, chery glass, bottle, can, soda Joat, slice, bread, piece wood, tree, leaf, lower ‘You are having a party. Ten friends are coming. Look at the plotures in the oral activity, add your own ideas and complete the shopping list for your

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