1. Welcome to Wales By calumscotland, Creative Commons. Paco visits Scotland and Wales: Welcome to Wales

2. Welcome to Wales Regular plurals (rules) One or more than one? Add –s or –es: computer-computers, match-matches, dish-dishes, bus-buses, box-boxes, potato-potatoes Consonant + y --- ies: family-families f/ fe --- ves: shelf-shelves, life-lives

3. Welcome to Wales Pronunciation of –s and –es: /s//z//Iz/ Visits Forts Sites Friends Castles Teams Places Changes Buses

4. Welcome to Wales Irregular plurals A mouse or two mice? Change vowel, ending or whole word: man-men, woman-women, child-children, person-people, tooth-teeth, foot-feet, goose-geese, mouse-mice, louse-lice No change: fish-fish, deer-deer, sheep- sheep, series-series, species-species Latin endings: phenomenon- phenomena, datum-data, thesis-theses, appendix-appendices

5. Welcome to Wales Suffixes The enlargement of words -dom: wisdom, kingdom… -ity: quality, necessity… -ment: argument, agreement… -sion/-tion: television, information… -ness: happiness, Scottishness… -ance/-ence: appearance, difference… -er/-or: teacher, visitor… -ist: scientist, pianist…

6. Welcome to Wales Vocabulary: television Remote control Channel Media TV programme News Weather forecast Documentary Soap opera Reality show Advertisement/advert/ ad Film Cartoon Game show Advertising break Comedy Series Episode Turn on/ off