DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 240
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 5
friend
bully
announcement
habitat
idea
food
milk
cheese
juice
fun
trouble
electricity
sugar
b. Answer key:
mystery – mysteries
detective – detectives
glass – glasses
minute-minutes
inventor – inventors
family – families
library – libraries
wolf – wolves
copy – copies
painting - paintings
page – pages
c. Have students choose five nouns from the table and write two sentences with each noun: one in
the singular and one in the plural. Read the example in the book.
d. Say:
Some of the nouns we use every day are irregular nouns in their plural form.
What does that mean?
They are count nouns but they don’t get ‘s’ when they are plural.
For example:
o A child – children (write on board)
Let’s see if you know any of the others.
Do the exercise with the class on the board.
Draw the table and have them copy it.
For each word ask who knows or thinks they know the answer.
Answer key:
Child – children
Man – men
Woman – women
Mouse – mice
Tooth – teeth
People – people
Foot – feet
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