八年级英语上册 Module 1 My life Unit 1 Penfriends Grammar 2课件 （新版）牛津上海版.pptVIP

* 1 Put a in the following blanks where necessary. 1 ____ girl 2 ____ dog 3 ____ sports 4 ____ person 5 ____ people 6 ____ house 7 ____ children Question: Why can’t we put ‘a’ before sports, people and children? ? We use ‘a’ with singular nouns. 2 Put a in the following blanks where necessary. 1 ____ box 2 ____ banana 3 ____ honey 4 ____ ink 5 ____ job 6 ____ teacher 7 ____ traffic Question: Why can’t we put ‘a’ before honey, ink and traffic? ? We use ‘a’ with countable nouns. 3 Put a or an in the following blanks. 1 ____ elephant 2 ____ apple 3 ____ cat 4 ____ aunt 5 ____ beach 6 ____ test 7 ____ umbrella ? We sometimes use ‘an’ with nouns that begins with a, e, i, o or u. 4 Put a or an in the following blanks. 1 ____ hour 2 ____ hospital 3 ____ hope 4 ____ honour 5 ____ honest man ? We sometimes use ‘an’ before words that begin with h if h is silent. 5 Put a or an in the following blanks. 1 ____ European country 2 ____ university 3 ____ ugly man ? We use ‘a’ before words that begin with eu or u if the first sound is pronounced /ju:/. 6 Put a or an in the following blanks. 1 ____ ‘A’ grade 2 ____ ‘B’ grade 3 ____ SPCA officer 4 ____ UFO 5 ____ KFC restaurant ? When we meet letters or abbreviations, we should pay attention to the sounds, not the letters themselves. We use a or an when we are talking about a person or thing for the first time. There is a man at the door. ( I don’t know which man) I need to buy a new T-shirt. ( not one specific T-shirt） We use a or an to talk about jobs. My father is an engineer now, but he was a soldier before. I worked as a secretary last summer. This year I want to be a shop assistant. We use a or an (= one) with some numbers or amounts. a hundred pounds half a kilogram a few a million people a litre of wine an hour a lot (of) a thousand times Some students are talking about their ambitions. Complete the sentences with a or an. My ambition is to be ____ architect. I