Unit Uno (unit one) 1.

1 plurale dei sostantivi (plurals of nouns)

il plurale dei sostantivi si ottiene di norma aggiungendo -s al singolare: father fathers apple apples dog dogs chair chairs si aggiunge es ai sostantivi che terminano in ch/-sh/-s/-ss/-x/-o: Church churches Dish dishes Bus buses Glass glasses Box boxes Potato potatoes Ma ricorda queste variazioni: stereo stereos piano pianos video videos disco discos photo photos radio radios kilo kilos studio studios hanno il plurale in ies i sostantivi che terminano in y preceduta da consonante: city cities secretary secretaries lady ladies hanno il plurale in ves i sostantivi che terminano in f/-fe wife wives life lives shelf selve scaffale/mensola knife knives loaf loaves leaf leale fanno eccezione: chief roof cliff

chiefs roofs cliffs

capo/principale tetto/tettoia scogliera/rupe

EX 1 scrivi il plurale dei seguenti sostantivi Radio radios Class classes Name names Tax taxes Mother mothers Country countries Nationality nationalities Week weeks Dress dresses City cities Student students Leaf leaves Kiss kisses

Boy Box Game Sex Friend Girl Watch Wife Tomato Day Fly Tree Wolf Cook Dish Video

boys boxes games sexes friends girls watches wives tomatoes days flyes trees wolves cookes dishes videos

Ricorda anche i pi comuni plurali irregolari: man men woman women child children tooth teeth foot feet mouse mice

EX 2 Qual il plurale di: key keys secretary secretaries man men word words map maps watch watches life lives diary diaries disco discos piano pianos stereo stereos clock clocks shelf shelves child children photo photos greeting greetings language languages foot feet photograph photographes play plays

EX 3 scrivi i plurali di questi oggetti: glasses bags knives children tomatoes wolves flowers cigarettes trees watches

EX 4 ricordando come si forma il plurale dei sostantivi trova the odd man, o intruso, in ciascuna delle seguenti serie di sostantivi: dish table life tomato man baby class bus car wife stereo house lady photo potato city knife hero name boy beach apple pencil brush echo cinema puppy flash Church wall leaf potato window city peach

1.2 Numeri cardinali 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty

(cardinal numbers)

EX 5 Sullesempio di questi tre numeri: 21=twenty-one 22=twenty-two completa lelenco fino a 40=forty: 24 twenty-four 25 twenty-five 26 twenty-six 27 twenty-seven 28 twenty-eight 29 twenty-nine 30 thirty 31 thirty-one 32 thirty-two 33 thirty-three 34 thirty-four 35 thirty-five 36 thirty-six 37 thirty-seven 38 thirty-eight 39 thirty-nine 40 forty EX 6 completa lelenco fino a 99: 50 fifty 51 fifty-one 52 fifty-two 53 fifty-three 54 fifty-four

23=twenty-three

55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99

fifty-five fifty-six fifty-seven fifty-eight fifty-nine sixty sixty-one sixty-two sixty-three sixty-four sixty-five sixty-six sixty-seven sixty-eight sixty-nine seventy seventy-one seventy-two seventy-three seventy-four seventy-five seventy-six seventy-seven seventy-eight seventy-nine eighty eighty-one eighty-two eighty-three eighty-four eighty-five eighty-six eighty-seven eighty-eight eighty-nine ninety ninety-one ninety-two ninety-three ninety-four ninety-five ninety-six ninety-seven niinety-eight ninety-nine

100 a (one) hundred 1,000 a (one) thousand 10,000 ten thousand 100,000 a (one) hundred thousand 1,000,000 a (one) million nota che in inglese si usa il punto per separare i decimali dalle unit e la virgola per separare le migliaia dalle centinaia, i milioni dalle migliaia tundre, thousand, million, preceduti da un numero non prendono la s finale. Si aggiunge s quando hanno il significato di centinaia, migliaia, milionie sono seguiti da of: five hundred metres ma hundreds of metres three thousand books ma thousands of books le unit e le decine si uniscono alle centinaia con and:

124= one hundred and twenty-four 4,612= four thousand six hundred and twelve EX 7 Con quali desinenze terminano le decine? Ora scrivi le decine che presentano variazioni ortografiche rispetto ai numeri da cui derivano: one ten two twenty three thirty four forty five fifty six sixty seven seventy eight eighty nine ninety EX 8 Leggi i seguenti numeri e scrivili in lettere: 8 eight 18 eighteen 24 twentyfour 33 thirtythree 100 a hundred 5 five 16 sixteen 73 seventythree 91 ninetyone 298 two hundred and ninetyeight 55 fiftyfive 3,637 three thousand six hundred and thirtyseven 172 a hundred and seventytwo 613 six hundred and thirteen 29 twentynine 43 fortythree 5,678 five thousand six hundred and seventyeight 8,420 eight thousand four hundred and twenty 123 one hundred and twentythree 11 eleven 3,423,614 three million four hundred and twentythree thousend six hundred and fourteen