Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

This is the short form for Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, the longest place name in the United Kingdom and one of the longest in the world. It is a village located in North Wales on the island of Anglesey.

The name has 58 letters (51 in the Welsh alphabet where ‘ch’ and ‘ll’ are single letters), and the translation into English would be ‘"St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St. Tysilio of the red cave".

This long name was given in the 1860’s, invented to attract attention, as a publicity stunt. They wanted to have a reputation of having the longest name for a railway station in the UK. Nowadays, visitors normally stop at the train station to take a picture of the sign. Another typical tourist attraction is having a kind of passport stamped at a local shop with the name of the village.

Thousands of men, women, students and whole families visit each year this small village. For this reason, the local people of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll are very proud of their little village and its long name.

By diluvienne, C. Commons

Find the singular and the plural nouns that appear in the text:

Pregunta Verdadero-Falso

According to the text, are these statements true or false?

1. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the longest place name in the world.

Verdadero Falso

2. The name was created to attract tourists.

Verdadero Falso

3. The people from the village are tired of the name.

Verdadero Falso

Solved exercise: singular or plural

Complete the table with either the singular or the plural forms that appear in the text. Come on! It's easy!

SINGULAR	PLURAL
visitor
	churches
man
	pictures
woman
person
	stations
family

Actividad de Espacios en Blanco

Complete the gaps with the plurals of these nouns (they can be regular or irregular; remember the rules):

1. child -

2. half -

3. mouse - JXUwMDM1JXUwMDA0JXUwMDBhJXUwMDA2

4. species -

5. book -

6. foot - JXUwMDNlJXUwMDAzJXUwMDAwJXUwMDEx

7. echo -

8. goose -

9. dish -

10. opportunity -

Solved exercise: pronunciation

Place each of these plural nouns under the correct pronunciation:

forms, alphabets, stunts, churches, stations, students, signs, villages

/s/	/z/	/Iz/

Solved exercise: SUFFIXES

Find examples with these suffixes in the text. You will find them very easily:

-tion -dom -ist -or -ity

Actividad de Espacios en Blanco

Make nouns from these words, using suffixes such as: -dom, -ity, -ment, -sion, -tion, -ness, -ance, -ence, -er, -or, -ist.

1. permit:

2. bored:

3. heavy:

4. science:

5. argue:

6. invent:

And that's all! Well done!

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