UNIT N° 04

LESSON 13 – IDENTITIES 1: “What a meal needs to be prepared ”

RD
Class: 3 A-B-C-D Time: a week Date: Date: August 9th - 13th.

Purpose: To use the knowledge of countable and uncountable nouns to talk about meals (foods & drinks)
Learning evidence: A written conversation discussing about what is needed for a recipe.
EYES ON ME
Activity 1. Dear students, let’s begin our activities observing the photo below and analyze it, then
answer the questions below.

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What do you think is needed to prepare a meal like in the photograph? Can you name any foods from
this meal?

LET´S OBSERVE AND READ

Activity 2. Let's read the following conversation. A couple of roommates discuss what they need for
preparing dinner tonight.
Tom: I’d like to make spaghetti this evening. What do you think?
Bryan: Sounds good.
Tom: OK, well, we need some ground beef. Can you buy a kilo when you go to the supermarket?
Bryan: Sure.
Tom: And we need some onions.
Bryan: There are 4 onions in the cupboard and 2 tomatoes, too.
Tom: I think we need 3 more tomatoes for the sauce and some pasta, of course. Do we have any pasta?
Bryan: I think so. Let me check. Oh no, we don’t have any. How much pasta do we need?
Tom: I think you must buy a kilo of pasta and a bottle of olive oil too and don’t forget about the tomatoes,
please.
Bryan: OK. Don’t worry. Let’s see ground beef, tomatoes, pasta, and olive oil. Anything else?
Tom: No, nothing else. That’s all.

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LET'S UNDERSTAND
Activity 3. Now, we are ready to see a new vocabulary and grammar.

Vocabulary: Food

VEGETABLES AND FRUIT

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Grammar: Countable and uncountable nouns

Nouns can be countable or uncountable. Countable nouns can be counted, e.g. an apple, two apples, three
apples, etc. Uncountable nouns cannot be counted, e.g. air, rice, water, etc. When you learn a new noun,
you should check if it is countable or uncountable and note how it is used in a sentence.
 1. Write C for countable and U for uncountable.

1. sugar ____ 6. flower ____ 11. tiger ____

U U

2. pencil ____ 7. jam ____ 12. bread ____

3. biscuit ____ 8. juice ____ 13. butter ____

4. rice ____ 9. slice ____ 14. plate ____

5. cup ____ 10. paper ____ 15. chair ____

2. Label the pictures.

1 2 3

_o_ _ _a_ _ _ _
__i____
5
6
4
_ _ _a _o_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _e_
7
8 9 10

_ _ _ e_ _ _i__ _a_ _a_ _

_ _ _ _ _ _e
11 12
13 14

_ _ _ _e_
e_ _ _ _ _a_ _e_
15 16
17

_a_ _ _ _o_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _o_

18
19 20

_e_ _e_ _a_ _ __i__

 4. Put the words in the box in the correct group.
biscuits bread cereal crisps dog food fried tomatoes ham lemon oil salad sardines
soup sugar water wine

____________ ____________
____________
____________ ____________ ____________
____________ ____________
____________ ____________ ____________
____________ ____________
____________ ____________

5. Circle the odd one out

1. bowl plate glass knife
2. beef trout lamb pork
3. lettuce carrots bananas mushrooms
4. buy market shop supermarket
5. cup carton bar bottle
6. some many any a
7. sandwich juice milk lemonade
8. lemon water fork egg
9. onion apple orange bean
10. tuna cola grape pasta

6. Order the dialogue. (8 marks)

• Just a bottle of mineral water, please.

Waiter_________________________________________
• Are you ready to order?
Tom _________________________________________
• Would you like a dessert?
• Yes, can I have some mixed vegetables, Waiter_________________________________________
please? Tom _________________________________________
• No, thank you. That’ll be all. Waiter_________________________________________
• Anything else?
Tom _________________________________________
• Certainly. Do you want something to
Waiter_________________________________________
drink?
Tom _________________________________________
• Yes, I’d like chicken with rice, please.
LET’S PRACTICE
Activity 4. Let's put what we learned into practice by doing the following exercises.

A. According to the reading in activity 2 select TRUE or FALSE

1. Tom decided to prepare spaghetti for dinner TRUE __ FALSE __

2. Tom is going to the supermarket for buying food. TRUE __ FALSE __
3. Ground beef is needed for preparing the meal. TRUE __ FALSE __
4. There are enough tomatoes for the sauce TRUE __ FALSE __
5. There isn’t any pasta at home. TRUE __ FALSE __

B. Read carefuly each statement then select the correct option to complete the statements

1. For preparing spaghetty they need ____ of ground beef

a. half a kilo b. some kilos c. a kilo

2. For preparing the meat sauce Tom needs ____ tomatoes.

a. two b. four c. five

3. There are two tomatoes _______.

a. in the fridge b. on the table c. on the cupboard

4. They don’t have _____ pasta at home.

a. some b. any c. much

5. Tom asks Bryant to buy _____ olive oil

a. a litre of b. a bottle of c. some

C. Choose the correct option to complete the gaps

1. How ______ sugar do you need?

a. many b. any c. much
2. How ________ rice is needed for lund?
a. many b. is c. much
3. How ______ oranges do you have in the basket?
a. are b. many c. much
4. Is there ____ pasta on the shelf?
a. some b. any c. much
5. There are _____ eggs in the fridge.
a. any b. an c. some
 6. There is _____ milk in the bottle.
a. some b. many c. any
7. There aren’t _____ potatoes in the bag.
a. some b. any c. much
8. There isn’t _____ bread for breakfast.
a. any b. many c. some
9. Would you like _____ sugar for your coffee?
a. many b. any c. some
10. For cooking soup we need ___ onion.
a. two b. an c. many

LET´S CREATE AND SHARE

Activity 5. Now it’s time for you to transfer all you learn today.

You will create a list of your favourite:

FRUIT VEGETABLE DISH DESERT DRINK

 RUBRIC FOR WRITTEN PRODUCTION
Feature Strong (4) Developing (3) Emerging (2) Beginning (1)
Ideas Establishes a clear Develops a focus. Attempts focus. Lacks focus and
focus. Uses some descriptive Ideas not fully development
Uses descriptive language. developed.
language. Details support idea.
Provides relevant Communicates
information. original ideas.
Communicates creative
ideas
Organization Establishes a strong Attempts an adequate Some evidence of Little or no
beginning, middle, and introduction and a beginning, organization.
end. ending. middle, and end. Relies on single
Demonstrates an Evidence of logical Sequencing is idea.
orderly flow of ideas. sequencing. attempted.
Expression Uses effective language. Diverse word choice. Limited word No sense of
Uses high-level Uses descriptive choice. sentence
vocabulary. words. Basic sentence structure.
Use of sentence variety. Sentence variety. structure.
Conventions Few or no errors in: Some errors in: Has some difficulty Little or no
grammar, spelling, grammar, spelling, in: grammar, evidence of
capitalization, capitalization, spelling, correct
punctuation. punctuation. capitalization, grammar,
punctuation. spelling,
capitalization or
punctuation.
Legibility Easy to read. Readable with some Difficult to read No evidence of
Properly spaced. spacing/forming due to spacing/forming
Proper letter formation. errors. spacing/forming letters.
letter.

LET´S REFLECT

Finally, it’s time for us to reflect on our performance. Please answer the questions by ticking (✓) in the box
that correspond and writing down your answers when needed:

How did you feel during this lesson?

Excellent Good Fair Bad
1. ____________________________________________
Write 2 things you learned 2. ____________________________________________

1. ____________________________________________
Write 2 things were difficult for you 2. ____________________________________________

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Saslow J. & Ascher A. (2015). Top Notch Fundamentals. (Third Edition). New York: Pearson
education Inc.
• Stephenson H., Dummett P. & Hughes J. (2014). Life Elementary. Hampshire: National Geographic
Learning.
• British Council (2019). LearnEnglish: Countable and uncountable nouns 1.
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/beginner-to-pre-intermediate/countable-and-
uncountable-nouns-1