III. Organization moment

Who is on duty today? Who is absent? What date is it today? What day is the week today? Can you name the days of the week please? What season is it now? How many seasons are there in year? Can you name the seasons of the year? How did you spend your autumn holidays?

II. Checking up the home task:

T:Now we'll check our home task. I hope that you are ready. What was your home task? Ok, let's start from….

P: home task was Ex: 3-4 on p.53, and ex.5 on p. 53 too.

III. Warm-up: work on a vocabulary

Hug- обнематься

Spine-колючка

IV. Presentation:

Ex. 6 p 54. Talk to your partner

Have you ever seen a cactus?

Have you ever seen a saquaro cactus?

Have you read a poem about a saquaro cactus before?

Do you like this poem?

V. Practice:

Ex. 7 p 54. Look at this picture and talk to your partner

Is this cactus beautiful?

What does it look like?

How old is this cactus?

Ex. 8 p 54. Read the text and complete the semantic map.

Saquaro cactus

The saquaro is the giant of the cactus family. Its height is often 50 feet (16 m).

It grows very slowly. It grows about one inch per year. The first branch of the

Cactus does not appear until the plant has grown to a height of 16 feet (5 m). the first flowers appear when the plant is 50-75 years old.

Grammar: Plurals of nouns

Most nouns make their plurals by simply adding –s to the end (e.g. cat/cats, book/books, journey/journeys). Some do change their endings, though. The main types of noun that do this are:

Nouns ending in –y

If the noun ends with a consonant plus -y, make the plural by changing -y to -ies:

singular	plural
berry	berries
activity	activities
daisy	daisies

Nouns ending in -ch, -s, -sh, -x, or –z

singular	plural
church	churches
bus	buses
fox	foxes

If the noun ends with -ch, -s, -sh, -x, or -z, add -es to form the plural:

singular	plural
stomach	stomachs
epoch	epochs

There’s one exception to this rule. If the -ch ending is pronounced with a ‘k’ sound, you add -s rather than -es:

Nouns ending in -f or –fe

With nouns that end in a consonant or a single vowel plus -f or -fe, change the -f or -fe to -ves:

singular	Plural
knife	Knives
half	Halves