THE PRESENT PARTICIPLE

READING: “THE TORN HAT  “

Look at my hat ; It is torn. It is an old hat . I have a new at home, but this is an old one. I am not living in the city. I am living in the country. My parents are  in the country too. We live in the country.

•In the city there are many houses ; the air is not pure. In the country there are many trees ; the air is very pure. I like the country very much. I like to live in the country.

•We live near a small village. There is a school in that village. I go every day to school with my sisters and my little brother. The school is not far from our house.

•I have many classmates and many friends. All my classmates are my friends. All my schoolmates are my friends.

THE PRESENT PARTICIPLE 

The present participle of all the verbs is formed by adding ( ING ) TO the root of the verb. E.g

• To read  --- reading          to speak --speaking

•To study  - studying            to  listen  --listening

•To say ----- saying                 to run  -- running

•To   look  ----- looking         to give  ------ giving

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So: “NOUNS “

•NOUNS  is the name of anything like  the names of persons, things and animals 

• e.g  ,  

•Names of persons :   Mario , Maria , Laia, 

•Names of things  :    Pencil, table, ruler

•Names of  animals :  Dog, elephant, cat

•The gender of the nouns are two : SINGULAR and PLURAL

•Pencil      ( singular )

•Pencils    ( Plural

•Most nouns form their plural by adding an “ S “ to the singular

Pencil   -----  pencils

 VERBS ENDING “y”

•However, when a verb ends in y immediately preceded by a vowel, the y is not changed before the ending s is added. 

•Bare Infinitive    Third Person Singular

•Say                                   says

•Enjoy                              enjoys

•Buy                                   buys

TONGUE TWISTER

•Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.

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•A box of mixed biscuits, a mixed biscuit box.

PRONUNCIATION

•Short   “  A “ ---THIS “ A “ HAS A MIDDEL SOUND BETWEEN “ A   y la E “  IN SPANISH. POHNETIC SYMBOL ( æ ) 

•bat                    can                    am                  at                    man                  rat                  cat                   bad                   bag                   sat                   hand                than

•had                     cap                   ham                back               stand               sand                  hat                    fan                   map                 glad                  lamp               damp

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