NOUNS. CONTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE

NOUNS
countable	uncountable
- with a/an in the singular - can be made plural - some/any in the plural - few/many in the plural	- use vb in the sigular - cannot be made plural - some/any in the singular - little/much in the singular - use other words to refer to a “quantity”             Ÿ a piece of…             Ÿ a small amount of…

SERIE. BBC. Heir Hunters - Moran/Joyce

Irish roots. Please note the destruction of Irish records mentioned here was not at the GPO during the Easter Rising of 1916 but at The Four Courts in 1922 during the conflict between Pro and Anti Treaty factions in the Irish Civil War.

ADJECTIVES WITH –ED AND –ING

t Some adjectives do not have both forms –ed and –ing.

   With –ed: express how the person feels about sth.

   With –ing: describe the person or thing which produces the feeling.

t Some changes adding –ed, -ing, -er and –est

   - Become double consonant:

a)      one syllable word ends in consonant+vowel+consonant

b)      two or more syllable word ends in consonant+vowel+consonant and final syllable is stressed

c)      word ends in –l after a single vowel (UK)

- Don’t double final consonant:

a)      two final consonants

b)      two vowel before final consonant

c)      word ends in a vowel

d)      for a verb, the stress is not on the final syllable

e)      word ends in –in, -w, -x, -y

- With final –y:

a)      –y + -ed = becomes i + -ed

b)      –y + ing, doesn’t change

- Other changes:

         ex. lie " lying, lied                die " dying, died                   lay " laying, laid                   try " trying, tried

t Some changes adding prefixes and suffixes

-The final –e drops:

            a) consonant before –e + suffix begins in vowel (-er, -ed, -ing, -ance, -ation,…)

- When –e doesn’t drop:

         a) suffix begins with a consonant

- Final –y becomes –i

t Adding prefixes

- Without changes making words in negative:

a)      dis-, in-, un-

b)      –ir with words beginning with r-

c)      –im with words beginning with m- or p-

WORDS. THE MOST COMMON SPELLING ERRORS

accommodation advertisement beautiful because beginning believe between children comfortable

communicate convenient country/countries course different embarrassed/embarrassing environment excellent experience

government loose lose necessary nowadays opinion opportunity/opportunities prefer

receive recommend restaurant society their until wealthy which

TALES. British Council. Jack and the beanstalk

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/jack-and-the-beanstalk

Once upon a time there was a boy called Jack. He lived with his mother. They were very poor. All they had was a cow.

One morning, Jack’s mother told Jack to take their cow to market and sell her. On the way, Jack met a man. He gave Jack some magic beans for the cow.

Jack took the beans and went back home. When Jack’s mother saw the beans she was very angry. She threw the beans out of the window.

The next morning, Jack looked out of the window. There was a giant beanstalk. he went outside and started to climb the beanstalk.

He climbed up to the sky through the clouds. Jack saw a beautiful castle. He went inside.

Jack heard a voice. “Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!” Jack ran into a cupboard.

An enormous giant came into the room and sat down. On the table there was ahen and a golden harp.

“Lay!” said the giant. The hen laid an egg –it was made of gold. “Sing!” said the giant. The harp began to sing. Soon the giant was asleep.

Jack jumped out of the cupboard. He took the hen and the harp. Suddenly, the harp sang, “Help, master!”

The giant woke up, and shouted, “Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!” Jack ran and started climbing down the beanstalk. The giant came down after him.

Jack shouted, “Mother! Help!” Jack’s mother took an axe and chopped down the beanstalk. The giant fell and crashed to the ground. Nobody ever saw him again.

With the golden eggs and the magic harp, Jack and his mother lived happily ever after.

DOCUMENTARY. BBC. Countryside 999 Episode 7 (2014)

Series following the emergency services in rural Britain. In this episode, the Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter crew rescue a badly injured lumberjack from remote woodland. Dumfries Police investigate an isolated farmhouse ripped apart by metal thieves, and Dumfries Royal Infirmary, the A&E team treat an injured sheep farmer after a nasty quadbike accident.

QUOTES

‘Study while others are sleeping;

work while others are loafing;

prepare while others are playing;

and dream while others are wishing.’

William Arthur Ward