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Fruit, sums and materials

Week 19 · Unit 8 (B): fruit shop, 'There is a … There are twelve …', currency, a money box (project), phonics o-e · 3 lessons
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At the fruit stall

Connect P2 Term 2: Unit 8
GoalName fruit and nuts and say There is a … . There are … .
New words
apple · a round fruit, red or greenorange · a round orange fruitbanana · a long yellow fruitlemon · a sour yellow fruitnuts · small hard seeds we eatfig · a soft sweet fruit with many seeds
Explanation

A fruit stall sells fruit and nuts: apples, oranges, bananas, lemons, figs and nuts. For one thing we say: There is an apple. For more than one we say: There are five apples. We say an before apple and orange, and a before banana and lemon. Count the fruit, then say how many there are.

appleorangebananalemonnuts
Worked examples
Aunt

Good morning. I want some oranges, please.

Seller

Look! There are six big oranges.

Aunt

And is there a fig?

Seller

Yes, there is. There is one fig, and there are two lemons.

Listen. Hossam’s aunt buys fruit.
Look. Count the fruit. Say: There is a … . There are … .

Today the fruit stall is full. There are ten lemons and eight oranges. There is a basket of figs. Karim buys three bananas for his sister. The seller says, Thank you!

Read and listen to the text.
Now you. Look at fruit at home. Say: There is a … . There are … .
Class activity

Fruit stall. Put fruit, nuts or paper drawings on a table. The child is the seller and says what is on the stall: There are three oranges. There is a lemon. The grown-up buys one kind and counts the money in pounds.

Practice
1
Look. How many lemons are there? Say: There are … lemons.
2
Look. Is there a banana? Say yes or no.
3
Fill in: There ___ eight oranges. (is or are)
4
Fill in: There is ___ apple. (a or an)
5
Writing: copy ‘There are six oranges.’