An oven cooks food in an enclosed heated space.

The idea

Use an oven for one appliance and ovens for more than one. Food bakes in the oven.

Examples

  • The oven is hot.
  • We bake bread in the oven.
  • Please turn off the oven.
  • The cake is in the oven.
  • Our new oven has two shelves.
  • She cleans the oven on Sundays.

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Watch out

Do not confuse an oven with a fridge: one heats food and the other keeps it cold.

Try it yourself

  1. Choose the correct word. Put the potatoes in the ___ to bake. (oven / fridge)

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    oven

    Oven is the heated space used for baking the potatoes.

  2. Choose the correct word. There are two ___ in the restaurant kitchen. (ovens / oven)

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    ovens

    Ovens is plural because the kitchen has two.

  3. Choose the correct word. Please ___ on the oven before baking. (turn / close)

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    turn

    Turn completes the phrase turn on for starting the appliance.

Use it today

Describe something you bake and when you turn the oven off.