Beginner 1

Lesson 14
I CAN SAY WHAT IS IN MY CITY
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Work with a partner. Choose one of the pictures. Make two sentences about your dish. Write one
positive sentence with ‘some’ and one negative sentence‘not any’ about it.

Ex.: There is not any milk in

the chocolate cake.

There are some eggs in the

chocolate cake.
Vocabulary
A taxi
traffic
A museum
crime
A playground
rubbish
A shopping mall
pollution
A tall building
a mosque
 Make up a question using “any’’
Are there any … in Bishkek?
Yes, there are some taxis./ No, there aren’t any taxis.
 Grammar – Quantifiers
Quantifiers are words that tell us the number of something.

Countable Nouns Uncountable Nouns

Question How many? How much?

Large number A lot of, lots of, too many A lot of, lots of, too much

Small number Not many, A few Not much, A little

Zero No, not any No, not any

 Questions
We use the question
«How Many?» to ask about countable nouns, and the question
«How much?» to ask about uncountable nouns.

How many trees are there? How much sugar is there?

 Large Numbers
There are too many people. There is too much sugar in my tea.
We do not use ‘many’ or ‘much’ in positive sentences. We use
‘lots of’ or ‘a lot of’.
There are many people in my city. There are a lot of people in
my city.

There is much sugar in my tea. There is a lot of sugar in my

tea.
 Small Numbers
We can use ‘not many’ with countable nouns to say there is a small
number of something. We can use ‘a few’ to say that there are 2-3 of
something. We use ‘not much’ or ‘a little’ with uncountable nouns to say
there is a small amount of something.

There aren’t many trees in the park. There are a few restaurants in my
city.
There isn’t much sugar in the cake. There is a little milk in my tea.
 ZERO

We use ‘not any’ or ‘no’ to say there is zero of something with

both countable and uncountable nouns. Notice the difference
is sentence construction.

There isn’t any sugar in my tea. There is no sugar in my tea.

 Choose correct quantifier. Think about if the noun countable or uncountable

There are _____ (many / a lot of) shopping malls in Beijing.

There is ______ (too much / too many) traffic in London.
There aren’t ______ (any / no) museums in my city.
_______ (How much / How many) mosques are there in Istanbul?
There is _____ (a few / a little) crime in Toronto.
There are ____ (too much / too many) taxis in New York.
There are ____ (any / no) tall buildings in Naryn.
There isn’t _____ (much / no) rubbish in Berlin.
There are _____ (a few / a little) playgrounds.
There is _____ (much / lots of) pollution in Delhi.
• There are a lot of shopping malls in Beijing.
• There is too much traffic in London.
• There aren’t any museums in my city.
• How many mosques are there in Istanbul?
• There is a little crime in Toronto.
• There are too many taxis in New York.
• There are no tall buildings in Naryn.
• There isn’t much rubbish in Berlin.
• There are a few playgrounds.
• There is lots of pollution in Delhi.
A.Taxi / Too many / Chicago -> There are too many taxis in Chicago.
B. Crime / Too much / Detroit
C.Shopping mall / A few / Sydney
D.Rubbish / How much / Moscow
E. Museum / A lot of / Washington D.C.
F. Traffic / No / Talas
G.Tall building / Not many / Osh
H.Playground / How many / Manchester
I. Pollution / A little / Amsterdam
J. Mosque / Lots of / Cairo
Write a question using ‘How many?’ or ‘How much?’
Model: How many museums are there in Bishkek?
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