A Trip To The Zoo 5hqr

Week 3

Read and study the words taken from the poem. Group A Monkey Lion Elephant Giraffe teacher

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What have you noticed about the last letter of the words in group B? What about those in group A? Group A Monkey Lion Elephant Giraffe teacher

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Which group refers to only one name of place, people, thing or animal? Group A Monkey Lion Elephant Giraffe teacher

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Which group of places, people, things or animals refers to more than one in number? Group A Monkey Lion Elephant Giraffe teacher

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Nouns that refer to just one in number are called singular nouns. On the other hand, nouns that refer to more than one in number are called plural nouns.

Examples: Singular Nouns animal monkey

Plural Nouns animals monkeys

How are you going to change the nouns lion, elephant, giraffe and teacher to their plural forms?

Here are the rules to guide you in changing nouns to plural form. 1. We add –s to the end of the noun to form its plural Examples: bird – birds teacher - teachers elephant - elephants giraffe – giraffes snake - snakes lion – lions

2. We add –es to nouns that end in s, sh, x, ch, and z Examples: fox- foxes bus - buses

3. For nouns ending in y preceded by a consonant, we change y to i and ad –es Examples: dragonfly – dragonflies firefly – fireflies

4. For nouns ending in o, we add –s or –es Examples: kangaroo – kangaroos potato – potatoes gecko – geckos tomato – tomatoes some nouns ending in o may be added with –s or –es like mangomangoes, mangos and volcano – volcanoes, volcano

5. Some nouns change their spelling to form their plural. We call them irregular nouns. Examples: man – men foot - feet woman – women louse - lice child – children tooth - teeth mouse – mice ox - oxen goose – geese diagnosis - diagnoses

Give the plural for of the singular noun in parentheses to complete the sentence. (Child) 1. All the __________enjoyed the trip to the zoo. (camera) 2. The pupils were told not to use the flash of their ______ when taking pictures. (butterfly) 3. Three_______ landed on my classmate’s shoulders. (pony) 4. There were _________ that you can ride at the zoo.

( mouse) 5. We saw ten white ______ playing in their cage. (banana) 6. The playful monkeys were given large ripe yellow ________ for their snack. (bench) 7. Our tour guides told us to wait by the __________ (cockatoo) 8. We took pictures of the colorful _______ (fish) 9. One thing that we missed at the zoo were the different ______ (zoo) 10. We would like to visit other _____ next time.

Complete the butterfly wings. Write the plural form of the given noun on the right wing. Then color and put designs on the butterfly wings.

Complete the butterfly