“That's why I waited with my tear-soaked face.
For you to come with roses, with a thousand
roses for me”
Is it better to have…
• 1 rose or one thousand roses ?
• 1 dollar or one thousand dollars?
• 1 dish or one thousand dishes?
• 1 debt or one thousand debts?
• 1 wife or one thousand wives?
• 1 party a life or one thousand parties a life?
I’d better have ….
I’d rather not have…
I’d better have …. one thousand dollars
I’d rather not have…
Plural nouns are not
enchiladas
• We have rules to pronounce and write them well.
• First, we’ll learn how to write them properly and
then, we’ll make funny sounds to pronounce
them correctly.
• Spelling -> bien escrito
• Pronunciation -> bien pronunciado
Spelling rules
1. Huevona Rule
• We add –S to most of the nouns
• Cat – Cats
Washbasin-Washbasins book-books
rose-roses
2. Beat-box rule
• We add –ES to nouns ending in o, x, s, ss, sh, ch, dg, z
• Tomato-Tomatoes
box-boxes
bus-buses
y
f/fe
dish-dishes
3. Consonant + Y rule
• We kill the “Y” and ad –IES instead.
• Party-parties city-cities
country-countries
f/fe Rule
• We remove the f or fe and add –VES instead
• Wife-wives Wolf-wolves
knife-knives
but boy-boys
but radio-radios
Write the words in the correct form
• bicycle, bus, cherry, knife, glass, house, apple, box, baby, ball, tomato,
leaf, radio, dress, city, wife, fox, watch, parrot, lady, wolf, dish, boy,
melon, armchair, toilet, sink
Singular noun
Plural Noun
1st rule – S
Bicycles, houses, apples, balls, radios, parrots, boys,
melons, armchairs, toilets, sinks
2nd rule- ES
Buses, glasses, boxes, tomatoes, dresses, watches,
dishes
3rd rule –IES
Cherries, babies, cherries, cities, foxes, ladies,
4th rule –VES
Knives, leaves, wives, wolves,
Pronunciation for the regular plural nouns
s
/s/
Unvoiced
sounds
/iz/
Tip sounds
/z/
Voiced
sounds
Pronunciation
/Z/
• :/b/, /d/, /g/, /v/, /ð/, /l/,
/m/, /n/ , /ŋ/,/eɪ/ and /aɪ/
/S/
• /p/ , /t/ ,/k/ ,/f/ and /θ/
/IZ/
• /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /tʃ/ and /dʒ/