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She's wife.

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a 2.8 Listen. Number the pictures 1-3.

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A Hey!That'smy bag.
B No, it isn't.lfs my bag.Yourbag'sthere.

2
A And hereare our children.
B What are their names?
A Her name'sLucyand his name'sEric.
B Hello.And who's this?
C It's my parrot.
B Whafs its name?
c Polly.
B Hello Polly.

5
A Excuseme, where are our coats?
B Sorry?
A Whereare our coats?
B Yourcoats- they'reover there on the chair.
A Thankyou. Good night. 2 VOCABUtARY people
andfamily
B Bye.
a Lookat picturesA-C. Wherecanyousee...?
a man, a woman, and two children I
Listen again and read the dialogues.Thencomplete men and women I
the chart with a highlighted word. twoboys tr

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brother husband son mother
possessive Do exercisea.
adjectives.
Talk to a partner.Point at peoplein the classroom.
sister person woman children
Can you remembertheir names?

What'sher name? I can'tremember. 2-r4 Listen. Practise the sentences.

Whataretheirnames?
The woman over there is my mother.
I have one brother and three sons.
My husband and my father are teachers.
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il \[atch the pairs from five famous films.

Marianne

b Complete the sentenceswith a name. 5 WRITING

& SPEAKING
I is Carrie'sfriend. a Readthe text and write the names
is Sophie'smother. on the photo.
is ]ack Sparrow'sfather.
is Marianne's sister. I K.t.l
is the Queen'shusband.

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Corerb andpractisewith photosA-E. Ask andanswer.

MynameisKate.l'mfromOhiointheUnitedStates.Myfather's
name
isMafi, andmymother'snameisAmy.I havea brother
anda sister.
TheirnamesareBrettandKaren.
Wehavea dog.ltsnameisBrandy.
\\brk with a partner:
A and B write the namesof six people (your f.-ily or friends) on b Now write about your family.
a pieceof paper. c Tell your partner about your family.
A gi* your pieceof paper to B; B give your pieceof paper to A.
A askB about his / her people.B askA about his / her people.
That's my bag. Who's this?
1-*'rrrruru, She'smy sister. here I can't remember.
there Thanks.
over there

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a 2.lo Listen and repeatthe a 2.t2 Listen and repeatthe words.

I aboy
2 a girl I hr-rsband
3 aman 2 wife
4 a woman 3 r-nother
5 children 4 fhther
6 friends 5 son
6 daughter
Cover ! the words. Look at the photos. Say the people.
7 sister
2.ll Listen and repeat the irregular plurals. 8 brother
9 boyfriend
A Irregularplurals 10 girlfriend
Singular Plural
a child children b Cover U the words. Look at the photos.
a man Say the people.
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a woman women c Work with a partner.
a person people A (Book open) How do you spellfriend?
B (B ook cl osed)F-R -E -N -D .
d Cover Q the plural words.Saythem. A N o. F-R -I-E -N -D .

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What is it? It's a bag.It's an umbrella.
What is it? It's a book. the
Look at the board.
Open the door.
Closethe windows.
What are they? TheY'rebooks.
Use a I anwith singular nouns'
e.g. a book,an umbrella.
Singular Plural IJseanwith words beginning with a vowel
I a book books +s (a, e, i, o, u), e.g. an identitY card.
an umbrella umbrellas Don't use 4 | an + plural nouns'
a holiday holidays e.g. they'rebooksNOT
2 a watch *"rct i,rl -It t*.dt ."ai.tg ,h, ,h, ', llse the + singular or plural nouns,
", ss,x) e.g. the door, the windows
3 a dictionary dictionaries / + ies(words.endingin
consonant+ Y)

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adiectives; s
Listen and repeat the examples.Then read the rules' @ Listenand repeatthe examples.Then readthe
@ rules.
adiectives
Possessive
s
Possessive
I ' m f r o m s p a i n .- @
Your name is Ben. Miranda is Carrie'sfriend.
His name is Marco. This is fack'scar.
He's from Rome.
Her name is Maki. Ella is Ben'swife.
She'sfapanese.
ttryg*qIPollY. My sister'sname is MollY.
It's a parrot.___
We're fro- Bturil. Our namesare Selmaand Lurs' . LJset after a person to talk about family and
You're Polish. Your namesare Marek and Ania' things, e.g. Ann's brother,Jim's car-
Th"r, * f.om Moi.o. Their namesare Pedro and Maria.
A Ella is Ben'swife. ( t - possessive
s)
. your names,our booksNoT y{ff}natrs, oursrboo'ks She'sAmerican.Her name'sElla. ('s - is)
. its- for thingsor animals,e.g.TheFerrariis a veryfast car.
Its top speedis 250 kPh.

2C adiectives
@ Listen and repeat the examples.Then read the rules'
A Ferrari is expensive.
It's a fast car.
My glassesare new.
They're old men.

Useadjectives:
NOT zq@hre-is;
- after the verb be,e.g.A Ferrari is expensive.
- beforea noun, e.g. It'sa fast car.NOT +ds-aear{ast
Adjectivesarethe samefor singularand plural:
He'san old man. They'reold men.NOT @
Adjectivesarethe samefor 9 and d , e.g. She's a goodgirl' He'sa goodboy'
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a Complete the chart. Write questionsand answers.
Singular Plural What is it?
I It's a pen. Thev'reoens It's an umbrella.
2 They'rephotos.
3 It's a watch.
4 They're chairs.
5 It's a dictionary.
6 It's a credit card.
7 It's a city.
8 They'reemails.
9 It's a bus.
l0 They'reidentity cards.

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a Completewith my,your, his,her, its,your, our, b Write the sentenceswith the names / people.
or their. This is his house.(my father) Thisis myfather'shouse.
I'm English. My nameisWilliam. I David is her brother.(Angela)
I They're from Russia. names are Natasha and Igor. 2 This is his book. (Antonio)
2 A What's name? 3 Ann is his mother.(Mark)
B I'm David. Nice to meet you. 4 They'reher children.(Sara)
3 He's American. name is Wayne. 5 His car is a Fiat.(my brother)
4 We're Mexican. names are Antonio and Thalia. 6 lim is her boyfriend.(Sally)
5 That's their cat. - name is Felix. 7 This is his pen. (Tim)
6 name is Tina. She'sBrazilian. 8 They'reher keys.(my sister)
7 A We're fane and Mark Kelly.
c Coversentences 1-8 and look at the sentenceson
B Room 22.This is - key.
the right (Thisis myfather'shouse, etc.).Saysentences
I'm Sally,and this is - dog, Rover.
l-8, e.g.Thisis his house.

2C
a Write sentences with lt'sor They're. b Order the words to make sentences.
I (fantastic) It'safantastichotel. blue is bagher
Her basis blue.
2 (expensive) I fasta car it's.
2 dogsbig they'revery.
3 (orange) 3 photo it's terriblea.
4 a Maria beautifulis very girl.
4 (slow) 5 hotel this good a very isn't.

5 (new)
,fu 6
7
very their is smallhouse.
new Mark'sis mobile.
8 expensiveItalian bagsarevery.
6 (good)

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