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Finding names
Textbook Part 2, pp. 30–31
GoalFind names in a text, know surname endings, and tell a name from an ordinary word.
New words
surname ending for boys/men · -ov, -yevsurname ending for girls/women · -ova, -yevatulip · lola
Explanation
Boys’ surnames end in -ov or -yev, girls’ in -ova or -yeva: Qodirov — Qodirova, Aliyev — Aliyeva. Some names are the same as ordinary words: Lola (a girl’s name) — lola (tulip). A name gets a capital letter; an ordinary word gets a small one.
Worked examples
Lola lola terdi. (Lola picked tulips.) — the first is a name, the second a flower
Asal (name) — asal (honey), Yulduz (name) — yulduz (star), Olmos (name) — olmos (diamond)
Class activity
“Name or word?”: the teacher says a sentence (Yulduz yulduzni ko‘rdi — Yulduz saw a star). Children give a thumbs-up whenever they hear a name.
Practice
1
Write the surname for a girl: Saidov
Saidova
2
Find the odd surname out: Hasanov, Yusupov, Karimova, Olimov
Karimova (a girl’s surname)
3
Which words need a capital? opam lola bog‘dan lola uzdi
opam at the start of the sentence, and the first lola (the name)