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Fruit at the market
Connect Primary 1, Term 2: Unit 15 At the market
GoalName fruit and say This is … for one and These are … for more.
New words
banana · a long yellow fruitapple · a round fruit, red or greenorange · a round fruit with juicewatermelon · a very big green fruit, red insidefig · a small sweet fruit with many seeds
Explanation
At the market we buy fruit. For one fruit we say: This is a banana. This is an apple. For more than one we say: These are bananas. These are apples. These are figs.
Worked examples
Uncle Saad
Good morning! These are fresh oranges.
Rahma
And what is this, please?
Uncle Saad
This is a watermelon. It is very big!
Look. One banana: This is a banana. Three apples: These are apples. Say each sentence.
Tap the card and say the word. The fig has no picture: say it after the sound.
Now you. Point to one fruit and say This is … . Point to two or three and say These are … .
Class activity
Fruit stall. Put some real fruit or paper fruit on a table. A grown-up is the shopper and points: ‘What is this?’ You are the fruit seller and answer: ‘This is a banana.’ Then point to two or more: ‘These are apples.’
Practice
1
Listen. Is it one fruit or many fruits?
…
Many fruits.
2
Look. Say a sentence: This is … or These are … .
These are oranges.
3
Look. Say a sentence.
This is an apple.
4
Look at the middle of the word fig: f – i – g. Which letter is in the middle?
The letter i.
5
Write: This is an apple.
The child copies the sentence.