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Irregular plurals

A few common countable nouns have irregular plural form.

Man/men Women/women child/children

Complete the pair:

  • Mouse/….

  • Fish/….

  • Tooth/….

  • Foot/….

  • Person/…..

  • Knife/….

  • Analysis/…..

  • Medium/…..

  • Sheep/….

  • Species/…..

  • Half/….

  • Thesis/….

  • Criterion/…

A few nouns do not have a singular form:

Florence’s new opera house ‘a metaphysical space of absolute purity’

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is considered one of the most harrowing pieces in the classical repertoire. Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder is a leading expert on Beethoven in general, and on this concerto in particular. Buchbinder told euronews: “This is the greatest and deepest of all five (of Beethoven’s) concertos, the most sensitive, the most emotional, the most touching. He’s dreaming of something. He’s dreaming of love, he’s dreaming of warmth, which he never got. He was always in love with the wrong woman, this was his problem!”

Conductor Fabio Luisi added: “The second movement is quite revolutionary. It’s a totally new type of dialogue between the piano and the orchestra – nothing like that had appeared before. It’s a very intense, dramatic dialogue, which makes this movement particularly original.”

For this rendition, euronews went to the new Opera House in Florence, which was recently opened to coincide with celebrations marking 150 years of Italian Unification. The Florence Opera House has been completed at a time of global economic crisis.

Elisabetta Fabbri, who supervised its construction for the Italian government, told euronews: “A theatre is usually seen as an open space when the show is on, but then, once the lights are off, it becomes again a closed space. Here we wanted to reverse the role of the theatre, and music.

Listening

  1. Do you like opera? When was the last time you saw one? Did you enjoy it?

Listen to the track (or watch the video) and complete the sentences. Use no more than 2 words.

Hero of 9/11 immortalized in opera

  1. A new opera premiered in San Francisco on the eve of the anniversary of the __________telling the story of one of the heroes.

  2. But Heart of a Soldier goes beyond simply the events of that day________.

  3. “I think it’s important to stress it’s not just a 9/11 story, because there are issues of: what is America, what is our place in the world, how do we honour all of those who have fallen and died in the name of _______.......

  4. He managed to evacuate _______people. But when he went back in for a final check – he never came out.

  5. “Rick Riscorla did extraordinary things, it’s a great story, but he was just a person you’d like to_________, he was a nice man, he was a good man.”

  6. The opera also tells the story of the __________ between Rick and his battlefield companion from Africa and Vietnam — Dan Hill.

  7. “That’s an __________our audience! So I think it’s very hot and exciting to see these people discover themselves at 58 and 50, and come together.”

  8. “I think that he had no choice, it was never in ___________ to not go back in that building and get the people out,” Hampson added.

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