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- Greg Malivuk
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- NOUNS
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- places, people, things (including ideas)
- common nouns: son city country school language
- proper nouns: Khalid Boston Poland BAE English
- count: egg table carrot
- noncount: water furniture lettuce
- Money is a countable thing. (I can count my money.)
- "Money" is a noncount noun. (I can't count the word "money".)
- chicken: noncount (meat) or count (animal)
- egg: noncount (material) or count (the whole egg)
- physical things that can be count or noncount:
- - noncount = the material the thing is made out of
- - count = the whole thing or container OR different kinds
- I would like a small coffee with one cream and two sugars.
- = cup of coffee, "cup" of cream, packets of sugar
- We need to buy coffee, cream, and sugar. (all noncount)
- Almost all animals have the same name as the meat, except:
- pig - pork, ham, bacon, sausage
- cow - beef
- calf (baby cow) - veal
- sheep - mutton (baby sheep = lamb, same as the meat)
- deer - venison
- How much time did you spend on your homework.
- How many times have you done these assignments.
- once, twice, (thrice)/three times, four times, ...
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- p. 97 exercise 2
- 2 a work (a work of art)
- 3 a history (a specific account of the history)
- 4 a talk (like a speech, a presentation, or a lecture)
- 5 space
- 6 a time (a specific period of time)
- 7 criteria (irregular plural)
- 8 time
- 9 Work
- 10 fish
- 11 Soda
- 12 milk
- 13 history (noncount as a field of study)
- 14 a film (= a movie, a video)
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- Irregular Plurals:
- child/children, man/men, fish/fish, deer/deer
- criterion/criteria, phenomenon/phenomena
- cactus/cacti, fungus/fungi, stimulus/stimuli
- person/people
- ------/police ("police" is always plural or in a compound)
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- p. 98 exercise 4 (different from the instructions)
- - write a QUESTION using the words
- 1 What are the two best films you've seen in the last year?
- 2 Who are the two funniest people you've ever met?
- 3 What is/was the best advice you've ever had?
- Who gave you the best advice you've ever had?
- 4 What is/was the most enjoyable work you've ever done?
- 5 What is the most beautiful work of art you've ever seen?
- Who made the most beautiful work of art you've ever seen?
- 6 What is the best news you've heard this month?
- 7 What was the worst traffic you've ever seen?
- Where...?
- When...?
- 8 What is/was the most interesting experience you've had in the last year?
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- Homework: p. 105-107 (reading and questions)
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