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How much does it cost?
Textbook: p. 25
GoalVegetable names; “How much do … cost?” and the verb cost.
New words
mushroom · qo‘ziqorinradish · turpraw · xomeach · dona (har biri)
Explanation
Vegetables: potato, onion, carrot, cabbage, cucumber, tomato, radish, turnip, mushroom, pumpkin. To ask the price: “How much do tomatoes cost?” — “They cost 1,200 soums a kilo.” With a singular noun: “How much does a cabbage cost?” — “It costs 800 soums.” This is the Present Simple: do with plurals, does with singular; in the answer cost becomes costs. Prices are per kilo (a kilo) or per piece (each): “Pumpkins are 1,000 soums each.” Raw means not cooked: “You can eat carrots raw.”
Worked examples
“Guess the vegetable”. I am orange and long. I grow under the ground. Rabbits like me. You can eat me raw, or cook me in palov. Do you know me? Yes, I’m a carrot!
— How much do onions cost? — They cost 500 soums a kilo. — And a cabbage? — It costs 800 soums.
Class activity
“Guess the vegetable”: a pupil takes a card; the class finds it with yes/no questions: “Does it grow under the ground? Do we eat it raw? Is it orange?”
Practice
1
Solve the riddle: I’m red and round. I grow on a plant. We put me in salads.
A tomato.
2
Say the price: cucumbers – 1,400 soums a kilo.
Cucumbers cost 1,400 soums a kilo.
3
Ask the price of one cabbage.
How much does a cabbage cost?
4
Why “How much do potatoes cost?” but “How much does a pumpkin cost?”
Potatoes is plural – do; pumpkin is singular – does.