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Wednesday 7th July 2021

PdPR

Unit 5: Food and Health (textbook page 55)

Grammar: Countable and Uncountable Nouns

A. Countable Noun
• Nouns that can be counted.
• For singular nouns, add ‘a’ or ‘an’ before the nouns.
o For example:
i) An apple.
ii) A burger.
• For plural nouns, add ‘s’, ‘es’ or ‘ies’ before the nouns.
o For example:
i) Three breads.
ii) Two mangoes.
iii) Four strawberries.

B. Uncountable Noun
• Nouns that can’t be counted.
• Don’t use ‘a’ or ‘an’ for uncountable nouns.
• Uncountable nouns are always singular (don’t add ‘s’, ‘es’ or ‘ies’).
o For example:
i) A lot of rice.
ii) Some water.
Wednesday 7th July 2021

Grammar: Qualifiers (a lot of, some, many, much, any)

A lot of Many Much Some Any

Positive
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
sentence

Negative
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
sentence

Question ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Countable
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
noun

Uncountable
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
noun

Examples a) Adrian a) How many a) There isn’t a) We’ve got a) We don’t


eats a lot burgers much water some have any
of are there? left. cheese. cheese.
mangoes.
b) Cindy has b) How much b) We eat b) Do we got
b) Basyir many bread are some rice. any
does not eggs. there? noodle?
drink a lot
of juice.

c) Do you
have a lot
of grapes?
Wednesday 7th July 2021

Exercise 1:

1) Look at the food in the table below.


2) Decide whether the food is an uncountable or countable noun using the i-Think tree map.

apple honey beans sweets rice


water cheese banana nuts juice

Nouns

Countable Nouns Uncountable Nouns

1) 1)
2) 2)
3) 3)
4) 4)
5) 5)
Wednesday 7th July 2021

Exercise 2:

1) You’re going to cook for your birthday party.


2) Make a list of what you should buy at the supermarket for the party.

FOOD DRINK

1) 1 cake. 1) 1 mineral water.


2) 3 pizzas. 2) …
3) … 3) …
4) …
5) …
6) …
7) …
8) …
9) …
10) …

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