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Meals: meals and foods, “… likes … for lunch” and “Does he like …?”

Lessons 33–35 · 3 lessons · Susannah Reed with Kay Bentley. Guess What! Student’s Book 2 (Grade 2), Uzbekistan edition. Cambridge University Press; Ministry of Public Education of Uzbekistan, USAID
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Sammy likes meat for lunch

Student’s Book pp. 62
GoalSay what someone likes for which meal with “likes … for …”.
New words
likes · yoqadi (u)doesn’t like · yoqmaydi (u)for breakfast · nonushtagafor lunch · tushlikka
Explanation

About someone else’s taste: “My friend Sammy likes meat for lunch.” With I, you, we, they we say “like”; with he, she and a name we say “likes”: “Dilshod likes rice.” Negative: “Madina doesn’t like fish.” After “doesn’t” we keep “like” (not “doesn’t likes”).

Worked examples
Dilshod likes rice for lunch. He doesn’t like beans.
Madina likes cereal for breakfast.
Class activity

“Friend’s taste”: each child asks a friend what they eat for breakfast and lunch and notes it. Then reports: “Aziza likes toast for breakfast.”

Practice
1
Dilshod likes rice for lunch. Say it.
2
Madina doesn’t like fish. Say it.
3
Choose: “He like / likes toast.”
4
For you: what do you like for breakfast?