Look through the examples and make the rules.

1. ship корабль -ship s [s] gun пушка -gun s [z] boy мальчик - boy s [z]

2. class - класс - class es ['kla:siz] box - коробка - box es ['boksiz]

3. torpedo - торпеда – torpedo es

a cargo —> cargo es

a piano —> pianos; a photo —> photos

4. army - армия - arm ies navy - флот - nav ies

5. wolf волк - wolv es knife нож - kniv es chief начальник - chief s

6. man [maen] мужчина -mеn [mеn] woman ['wumen] женщина -women ['wimin] child ребенок -children foot [fu:t] нога - feet [fi:t] tooth [tu:0] зуб -teeth ox [oks] бык - oxen ['oksen] goose [gu:s] гусь -geese [gi:s] mouse [maus] мышь -mice [mais]

7. schoolboy - школьник - schoolboy s

commander-in-chief главнокомандующий - commander s -in-chief

man-journalist - журналист - men-journalists woman-typist - машинистка - women-typists

8. physics физика mathematics математика economics экономика

2. Rewrite the words in the plural form and read them aloud:

a) shop, bridge, dictionary, potato, sandwich, play, belief, roof, bus, factory, reading-room, table, taxi, family, valley, tomato, city, spoonful, stop, journey;

b) scarf, man, mouth, house, woman, thief, postman, mouse, life, grown-up, editor-in-chief, passer-by, leaf, tooth, shelf, child, knife, piano, mother-in-law, man-servant, woman-doctor;

c) calculus, matrix, antenna, basis, formula, curriculum, species, medium, index, phenomenon, appendix, analysis, stimulus, crises, nucleus, series, datum, criterion, dogma, focus, means, bureau.

3. Make the nouns plural according to the model:

This is a toy. — These are toys. That is a ship. ~ Those are ships. It is a child. — They are children.

1. It’s a long story. 2. This is a key. 3. That’s a new shop. 4. It’s a fly. It’s a big country. 6. He is a chief. 7. It’s a black cat. 8. That is a clever dog. 9. It’s an orange. 10. He is a nice boy. 11. It’s a yellow leaf. 12. She is a good wife. 13. It’s a bad tooth. 14. It’s a strange fish. 15. It’s a beautiful deer. 16. That’s a new potato. 17. This is a red roof. 18. It’s my file. 19. She is a wonderful child. 20. It’s a white sheep.

4. Make the nouns plura. Don’t forget to make necessary changes.

1. She is a lady. 2. Не is a gentleman. 3. Не is an honest partner. 4. She is a good translator. 5. He is an accountant. 6. It is a mouse. 7. It’s a butterfly. 8. He is a fisherman. 9. She is a Swiss. 10. It’s a swine. 11. It’s an ox. 12. That is a wild goose. 13. There is a sheep in the field. 14. There is a ship in the sea. 15. There is a mouse in the kitchen. 16. There is a Vietnamese in our group. 17. He is a passer-by. 18. It’s a forget-me-not. 19. It’s a good dictionary. 20. He is an Englishman. 21. I’m a teenager. 22. This is a good offer. 23.I am an expert on business. 24. That man is a German. 25. This woman is a Chinese.

5. Use the verbs in the correct form:

I. Good advice (help) a lot. 2. Now many items of information (be) there in your table? 3. The data (be) not accurate. 4. Mathematics (be) one of my favourite subjects when I was at school. 5. The goods (arrive) to the warehouse two days ago. 6. Your clothes (hang) on the chair. 7. My watch (be) five minutes fast. 8. No news (be) good news. 9. His hair (need) cutting badly. 10. Money alone (do) not make you happy.

Note:

Irregular Plurals

-us - -i: abacus - abaci, calculus - calculi, focus - foci, nucleus - nuclei, radius - radii, stimulus - stimuli.

-a - -ae: antenna - antennae, formula - formulae.

-um —a: curriculum - curricula, datum - data, maximum - maxima, minimum - minima, medium - media,

pendulum - pendula, spectrum - spectra, vacuum - vacua.

-ix, -ex - -es: appendix - appendices, index - indices, matrix - matrices, radix - radices.

-is - -es: analysis - analyses, axis - axes, basis - bases, crises - crises, metamorphosis - metamorphoses,

parenthesis - parentheses, thesis - theses.

-es - -es: series - series, species - species.

-on - -a: automaton - automata, criterion - criteria, phenomenon - phenomena.

-a - -ata: dogma - dogmata, stigma - stigmata.

-o —i: solo - soli, tempo - tempi.

-eau - eaux: bureau - bureaux, plateau - plateaux.

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