cup ($6.00) spoon ($3.00) chopstick ($1.00) bowl ($ 2.00)
saucer ($6.00) napkin ($4.00)
Example: Ask how many of certain articles you can buy for a certain amount of money.
How many spoons can you buy (get) for one hundred dollars? You can get thirty-three spoons.
C. Form questions like the models. Try to form questions about things that are around you in your school, home, city, or country .
Example: How many days does a week have? How many wings does a bird have?
day/week door/car book/the library
wing/brid lamp/your bedroom student/ the class
park/this city page/book people/ your country
university/your country chair/your office continent/ the earth
library/this city teacher/school nation/ the world
D. Listen to the questions and requests. Underline the form you hear, singular or plural .
1. Do you have the (ticket, tickets) in your pocket?
2. Do you sell (candy, candies) in this store?
3. Put the (book, books) on the (shelf, shelves).
4. Where can I find the best clothing (store, stores)?
5. Are you buying the (gift, gifts) for your (friend, friends)?
6. Will you mail the (package, packages) and (letter, letters) for me please?
7. Where can I wash my (shirt, shirts)?
8. What (city, cities) are you going to visit on your trip?
9. Can you answer the (question, questions) in this lesson?
10. Please give my (greeting, greetings) to your (brother, brothers) and (sister, sisters).
E. Read the following passage, paying attention to the pronunciation of the plural forms of nouns .
Many sports draw hundreds of thousands of participants and spectators in the United States. For instance, skiing has 7.2 million participants each season.
Why each season? Most sports in the United States are seasonal. What is in season at present may not be played next month. Just now I mentioned spectators and participants. Some sports are called spectators sports, that is sports to watch, such as baseball, football, basketball, because the number of on-lookers is much bigger than the number of players. Other sports such as skiing and swimming, are participant sports, that is, sports for people to engage in. Participant sports draw spectator only on special occasions. Some sports are commercial and professional, in which players are paid for their participation and spectators are required to pay for their tickets. If you go to the United States, and want to watch a game in person, you can find ticket information by reading a newspaper or by calling the ticket office of the team. The names of the ticket offices of various teams are listed in the Alphabetical Telephone Books. Most major sporting events are surely telecast over television. And if you would rather play a sport than watch it, there are certainly many opportunities to do so. If you are interested in swimming or any indoor sports, go to the YMCA (Yong Men’s Christian Association) or the YWCA (Young Woman’s Christian Association). They offer sports programs to the public at inexpensive rates. They want people to get into sports.
Let’s now come back to the figures. Skiing, about 7.2 million participants every season; college baseball games draw approximately 30 million spectators; and the U.S. government issues 55 million hunting and fishing permits every year. You can not go hunting or fishing without a permit.
And at home, numerous people watch all kinds of sports on television, or listen to broadcasts on the radio. The sports fans at home are no less enthusiastic than those at the stadium. They sometimes even crash their television sets when their team loses.
Then, Americans have as much fun reading and talking about sports. Usually several pages of the daily paper are devoted to discussing sports events. In almost any social gathering—dance, tea, cocktail, dinner, etc.—people get around to talking about popular players; the team that won last year; who is going to win the championship in the coming season; what records are likely to be broken; what kind of fishing rod or gun is good to buy; or who is now even more popular that baseball heroes like Ty Cobb and Pete Rose and who is going to be the leading hitter and so on. Americans also wear the colors or even the official jerseys of their favorite teams when they go out. So, you see, a great topic for conversation is sports. And if you should visit the United States someday and stay there for some time, you are likely to get involved in a chat like that everyday.
Part Two动词第三人称单数综合练习
A. Read each verb and pronounce the third person singular, present tense .
Example: want-wants
want leave watch teach abandon seek
ride sleep sell land alleviate arise
sing laugh dig cry believe escape
hear run close breathe think breed
smoke race come take listen hang
shine spit forgive hold hear complain
hide fall swear stick shout carry
strike choose spring draw scold escape
mistake bend bite kick praise arise
cast burst ride breed drink seek
B. Repeat the phrases. Note that verbs usually have strong stress. Listen to and imitate the rhythm .
watches TV costs ten cents washes the plates
needs a book rains every day makes the beds
likes to swim eats at noon laughs and cries
ask for Tom account for the money make a bet
swim in the pool write a letter split into halves
begin to study buy a ticket cut down the trees
fight for freedom forget to take it give an example
know about the person lean against the wall lend me the book
C. Listen to these sentences read by your teacher or on tape and circle the form of the verb you hear .
1. leave at six o’clock leaves
2. play baseball plays
3. land over there lands
4. run to school every day runs
5. sleep all the time sleeps
6. smoke a lot smokes
7. wash the dishes washes
8. speak English speaks
9. listen to the music listens to
10. read the magazine reads
11. walk in the street walks
12. visit the place visits
13. carry the bag carries
14. beat the dog beats
15. buy a ticket buys
16. shake hands shakes
17. ride a motorcycle rides
18. leave the town leaves
D. Form sentences, using the subject he or she .
Example: He teaches English [in a Middle School].
teach/English fix/bikes manage/a restaurant
drive/a taxi read/love stories play/ football
write/books sell/furniture wash/dishes
bake/cakes race/cars make/speech
E. Give quick answers to the following questions; don’t forget to add the –s ending to the verbs when necessary .
1. Where does your father work?
What time does he get up every day?
How does he go to work?
Does he work very hard?
Does he come home for lunch or have his lunch in restaurants?
What time does he come home after work?
What does he do in the evening?
2. Does your mother work?
Where does your mother work?
Does she work in the same company as your father?
Does she go to work every day?
Does she go to work by bus or by bike?
Does she work hard?
Does she do the cooking at home after work or on weekends?
Who has more housework to do at home?
Does your father help your mother with the housework?
What does your mother usually do on Sunday?
3. You’ve a sister, don’t you?
Does she study or work?
Where does she study?
Does she live at home or at the school dormitory?
Does she get up at 6 in the morning?
How many courses does she have every day?
Does she feel busy? What does she do in her spare time?
Does she watch TV sometimes?
Does she like English?
Does she have many hobbies?
4. Who’s your best friend?
What does she do?
Where does she work?
What products does her factory turn out?
Does your friend enjoy her work?
How many hours does she work every day?
Does she work on the day-shift or night-shift?
Does she read newspaper every day?
Why do you regard her as your best friend?
Does she have an indeed friend?
5. Who’s your English teacher?
Does he live far away from your school?
Does he come to school every day?
How many hours does he teach every week?
Does he talk other things in class?
Does he speak a lot of English in class?
Do you like your teacher, why?
F. Read the following passages .
The sight of him as he comes to the ten o’clock class is in itself something that has to be recognized as dramatic. In the pleasant autumn or spring, students stand high on the steps or out on the turf in front and watched in the direction of his house to see who can catch the first glimpse of him.
“There he comes!” somebody calls, and then everybody who is in a position to see watches him as he hurries breezily along— a graceful, tallish man in very light gray suit and gray fedora hat, with a full square beard at least as white as his suit, who moves with energy, and smokes passionately at a big cigar. Students say that he smokes an entire cigar while he walks the short distance along the iron fence of the old burying ground and across the street to the school gate. But as he comes through the gate he tosses the remnant of his cigar into the shrubbery with a bit of flourish, and the students still outside hurry in and scramble up the long stairway in order to be in their places—as he likes—before he himself enters. If any of them is still on the stairway when he comes in at the outer door like a gust, they give way and he pushes up past them, and into the good-seized room and down the aisle to the front, throws his hat on the table in the corner, mounts the two steps to the platform, looks about with a commanding eye, and there is sudden silence and unrestrained expectancy.
