This document contains information about food and drink, including dairy products, cooking verbs, dishes, places to eat, countable and uncountable nouns, and the usage of quantifiers like "some", "any", "a few", and "a little". It discusses which quantifiers can be used with countable and uncountable nouns and provides examples of correct usage. The document is written by an English teacher and seems to be notes or materials from a lesson about food and language used in discussing food.
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Dinner time /countable & uncountable/
1. Unit 7a
Food and Drink
Dinner time
English teacher Bolortuya Kaka
7. Countable and Uncountable
Countable nouns are those nouns we can count:
an/one egg, two eggs. Uncountable nouns are those
we cannot count: some flour NOT: one flour, two flours
9. Countable nouns
a some any a lot (of) (a) little (a) few much many
Affirmative
Interrogative
Negative
Uncountable nouns
a some any a lot (of) (a) little (a) few much many
Affirmative
Interrogative
Negative
11. Conclusion
We use some in the affirmative with uncountable
and countable nouns in the plural and in requests.
We use any in the negative and interrogative.
We use a few with countable nouns.
We use a little with uncountable nouns.
A
B
C
D
1 Can I have some strawberries, please?
2 There isn’t any sugar left.
3 Have you got any tomatoes?
4 Would you like some ice cream?
5 I need a few peppers. (=a small number)
6 I’d like a little cheese. (=a small amount)
A
B
B
A
C
D
12. Thank you for your
attendance.
See you to next lesson.