Showing posts with label count/uncount. Show all posts
Showing posts with label count/uncount. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Food: Countable and Uncountable Nouns + ACTIVITIES 1ESO


                     1 ESO                   (1ESOCD/DC)


You can read and listen to this LESSON if you click on the link. You have got a Spanish and an English version. 

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Some / Any / Much / Many

                        1R ESO                1ESOCD
Some       
  • A little, a few or small number or amount.
  • We usually use some in positive sentences for countable and uncountable nouns.

                       I have some friends in London.
               I usually drink some wine with my meal.

  • Sometimes we use some in a question when we expect a positive YES answer.

               Would you like some more tea?
               Could I have some more sugar, please?
Any         
  • It is used with negative sentences.
  • When asking questions and when a sentence is grammatically positive, but the meaning of the sentence is negative.


               Do you have any ice cream left for me?
               My brother never does any chores.
  • We use any for both countable and uncountable nouns.
               Do you have any cheese?
               He doesn't have any friends in Paris.
Much       

  • It is used with uncountable nouns.
              They don't have much money to buy a present.
Many        

  • It is used with countable nouns.
               I don't have many English stamps in my collection.
Much and Many are used to express that there is a large quantity of something.

A lot of 
  • We usually use a lot of in positive sentences for countable and uncountable nouns.             
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ACTIVITIES
Click here to ptactise some / any
Click here to practise many / much / a lot of


Monday, March 16, 2020

The Plural of Nouns

                         1 ESO                               1ESO CD


Click on the link to see the rules and examples
http://honorigarciaenglish.blogspot.com/search/label/count%2Funcount

ACTIVITIES

1. Crossword 1
2. Crossword 2
3. Crossword 3 

Monday, November 5, 2018

Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns

Only with
uncountable nouns
With uncountable
and countable nouns
Only with
countable nouns
How much?How much? or How many?How many?
a littleno/nonea few
a bit (of)not anya number (of)
-some (any)several
a great deal ofa lot ofa large number of
a large amount ofplenty ofa great number of
-lots of-
+ noun

Note: much and many are used in negative and question forms.

Examples

  • How much money have you got?
  • How many cigarettes have you smoked?
  • There's not much sugar in the cupboard.
  • There weren't many people at the concert.
They are also used with too, (not) so, and (not) as :There were too many people at the concert - we couldn't see the band.
It's a problem when there are so many people.
There's not so much work to do this week.
In positive statements, we use a lot of:

Examples

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

So / So much / So many

So much is used with singular uncountable nouns.
I have never had so much free time in my life.

So many is used with plural nouns.
He had so many friends on facebook she could control what they were posting.

So much and so many can be used without a noun if the meaning is clear.

‘Would you like some more meat?’ ‘No, thanks. I have already eaten so much.’

Note:  so much is used before adjectives and adverbs in the comparative degree.

You are so much more beautiful now. (NOT You are so more beautiful now.)


  ACTIVITIES



Sunday, March 9, 2014

Countable and uncountable nouns: games

Countable vs uncountable nouns - a mind map
Some games to practise. Click here to practise the famous Tetris game with countable and uncountable words.
Click here for 2 different games to practise.