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- Greg Malivuk
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- NOUNS
- things, people, places
- Common Nouns: table, chair, computer, teacher, school, city, month
- Proper Nouns: Greg, Boston Academy of English, Somerville, January
- count nouns: trees, dogs, boats, chickens, fish (the animals), coffees (an order)
- noncount nouns: love, anger, wood, chicken, fish (the meat), coffee (the liquid)
- meat animal
- noncount count
- pork pig
- veal calf (baby cow)
- beef cow
- (lamb) (lamb)
- mutton sheep
- venison deer
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- hair: There is a hair in my soup.
- There is hair in my brush.
- paper: I have many papers from class. / I have to write three papers this week.
- Books are made of paper.
- time: I have been there three times. / How many times a week do you do it?
- I've been there for a long time. / How much time do you spend on homework?
- wine: We make three different wines at this winery. (= types)
- I would like some more wine, please. (= liquid)
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- p. 97 exercise 2
- 2 a work
- 3 a history (a specific work of history)
- 4 a talk
- 5 space
- 6 a time (at a time / at times = at specific points in time)
- 7 criteria
- 8 time
- 9 Work
- 10 fish
- 11 Soda
- 12 milk
- 13 history (as an academic field)
- 14 a film
- irregular plurals: fish/fish, mouse/mice, man/men, child/children, sheep/sheep
- criterion/criteria, cactus/cacti, medium/media, ephemeris/ephemerides
- matrix/matrices, axis/axes
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- the police are, scissors are, the news is
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- p. 105-106 reading
- What changed the island so drastically?
- drastically: seriously, badly, completely, suddenly
- gigantic: huge
- desolate: empty and barren, deserted, nobody and nothing there
- trunk: the main stem of a tree, but also an elephant's nose and the area in the back of a car where you can put things ("boot" in British English)
- catastrophe: very big disaster or accident
- "in the works": in progress, being worked on now
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- ARTICLES
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- a/an, the, Ø (nothing, "zero article")
- a/an: indefinite article
- - introduce something for the first time
- - classify something: tell what group it is part of ("I am a teacher.")
- - a/an only with singular count nouns (no plural, no noncount)
- a bottle, a computer, a table, a university, a one-way street (consonant sounds)
- an apple, an art student, an hour, an honest man, an mp3 player (vowel sounds)
- non-specific: I bought a new computer.
- generic: A computer is a machine used to calculate things.
- Ø: zero article
- indroduce and classify plural and noncount nouns (indefinite meanings, but can't use a/an)
- - We are teachers.
- (It's possible to use "some" in place of the non-specific zero article.)
- non-specific: I bought (some) milk. I bought (some) new computers for the school.
- generic: Milk contains a lot of calcium. / Computers are more and more common.
- the: definite article
- - identify something as a specific thing
- - refer back to a specific thing that was introduced earlier
- specific: The new computer I bought is much faster than my old one.
- I am the teacher in room 102. (I'm the only one, so "teacher in room 102" is specific.)
- generic (for inventions, species, and body parts):
- The piano was invented in 1654.
- The Chilean wine palm has a very thick trunk.
- The brain controls the rest of the body.
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- Homework: p. 110 and 111 (exercises 1 and 2)
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