FOOD AND BEVERAGE

Apples Chocolate
Bananas Pasta Chips
Bread

Broccoli Peas Onions

Potatoes
Carrots

Ice Cream

Tea Milk Coffee Wine Apple Juice Yoghurt

 Countable Nouns Uncountable Nouns

• Things that can be counted. • Things that cannot be counted.

• They can be singular and • They can only be singular.
plural.
 A/An
is used in front of singular countable nouns.

A An
• Start with a consonant sound • Start with a vowel sound
e.g. e.g.
a book an egg
a car an orange
a burger an apple
a cake an umbrella

Note: The sound of the letter is also important.

e.g.
a house vs. an hour an uncle vs. a university
 Quantifiers 1

Much Many

• Use with uncountable nouns in • Use with countable nouns in

questions and negatives questions and negatives
e.g. e.g.

How much money have you got? How many people were at the party?

There isn’t much milk left. I didn’t take many photos.

 Some Any

• Use in positive sentences and • Use in questions and negatives

questions showing requests or e.g.
offers Is there any sugar in this tea?
e.g. I didn’t buy any apples.
I’d like some sugar.

Can I have some cake?

 A Few A Little

• Use with countable nouns • Use with uncountable nouns

e.g. e.g.

There are a few cigarettes left, but Could I have a little milk in my
not many. coffee?

A Lot/Lots of

• Use with countable and uncountable nouns

e.g.
There’s a lot of butter. There isn’t a lot of butter.

There are lots of friends. Are there lots of friends?

 Quantifiers 2

A piece of cake A box of chocolate A jar of jam

A carton of milk

A bunch of A packet of
A pint of A bowl of cereal grapes potato chips A dozen of eggs
caramel
A quart of
yoghurt

A cup of
milk tea

A spoon of sugar A glass of A can of

champagne A bottle
A tube of coke A bag of rice
of beer
toothpaste