A.Teachers’ Day
B.Children’s Day
C.New Year’s Eve
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D.King Hung’s Death Anniversary
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
UNIT 7:CELEBRATIONS
PART E: LANGUAGE FOCUS
WORD STUDY: GENITIVE` S
1.Definition:
The Genitive case or possessive case is the case that marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun.
2. Forms & examples:
The girl’s eyes

Singular noun
+’s

Plural noun
+’
Teachers’ day
Children’s Day

irregular plural
+’s
yesterday’s newspapers

time expressions
+’s / ’
We normally use genitive’s for people or animals: for things, we normally use “of ”
The roof of the house
The back of the car
Task1:Match the words in column A with those in column B,using “Genitive’s’’
2. Master
3.A mile
4. Men
5.Heaven
6. Revolutionary Invalids &
Martyrs
1. Fifteen minutes
B. sake
C. degree
D. Day
A. clothes
E. break
F. distance
Fifteen minutes’ break
2. Master’s Degree
3.A mile’s distance
4. Men’s clothes
5.Heaven’s sake
6. Revolutionary Invalids & Martyrs’ Day

Group A:
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
00
20
40
60
80
100
120
Group B:
00
20
40
60
80
100
120

Three teachers in this school are taking
a course for a ……………………..
Master’s Degree


Well, that’s enough for the first section.
Let’s have a ……………………………..
fifteen minutes’ break


It’s not too far, just…………………...;
you can walk there.
a mile’s distance
In memory of those who have died in
the struggles against foreign invaders,
visits are paid to the City’s Cemetery
every year on ……………………………

Revolutionary Invalids
& Martyrs’ Day
LUCKY NUMBER
CONGRATULATIONS!


YOU ARE LUCKY!
For …………….......calm down! I’m
going to tell you all you need to know.
heaven’s sake


There are always fewer shoppers in the
……………….department than in the
women’s.
men’s clothes
Complete the second sentence so that it means
the same as the first:
EX: Those shoes belong to my friend
 These are my friend’s shoes
1.These are clothes for children.
These are …………………………………...
2. The meeting tomorrow has been canceled.
…………………………has been canceled
3. It’s a school for boys
 It’s a ………………………………………….

children’s clothes
Tomorrow’s meeting
boys’ school
Homework:
Use of language : exercise 2
p71 ( workbook)
Good bye!