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Lesson 2. Delicious! Countable/uncountable nouns. Some-Any

Outcomes: to present and give Ss practice in using countable and uncountable nouns and a(n)/some; to practice in talking and writing about food preferences; to cultivate a culture of healthy eating.

PROCEDURE

WARM-UP

• Hello, my dear students. Try to guess the riddle: it is round, it is red (pink or yellow). We can make a salad of it. What is it? Yes, of course, it is tomato. Do you like tomatoes?
• Do you know that for some people a tomato can be a fruit or a vegetable but it is generally perceived as the latter?
• Can we count the tomatoes? Today we are going to talk about countable and uncountable nouns and using of a(n)/some.

Grammar.

COUNTABLE NOUNS

• They have singular and plural forms and can be counted.
• We can use a/an or numbers before them.

A chair – seven chairs

UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

• They have only singular form and cannot be counted.
• We cannot use a/an or numbers before them.

Meat - milk – sugar

NOTE: the words hair, time, weather, money, homework are uncountable.

Tomato is a countable noun (has both a singular and a plural form) and cheese is uncountable noun.

Read the dialogue and tick the items they have got.

Sophie: Have we got any sausages?

Mother: Yes, we’ve got some, but we haven’t got any cheese.

Sophie: OK. Is there any milk in the fridge?

Mother: We’ve got some milk, so don’t buy any.

Sophie: What about eggs? Have we got any eggs?

Mother: Oh, no, we haven’t got any eggs.

 What items have they got? Are these nouns countable or uncountable?

Pay attention to the words in a bold type. Let’s consult with the Grammar Reference p.119.

• We use some with countable and plural countable nouns in affirmative sentences and offers.

There are some carrots in the fridge.

Would you like some orange juice?

• We use any with uncountable and plural countable nouns in questions and negative sentences.

Is there any milk in the fridge?

There aren’t any apples in the fridge.

a(n), some

• a(n), some + singular countable nouns.
• some + plural countable nouns.
• some + uncountable nouns.

There’s an orange and some ice cream in the fridge.

There are some apples, too.

Activity.

Put the words in the box in the correct column.

SPEAKING.

Talk in pairs. Look at the food in activity 1 and talk about what you like/don’t like.

 e.g. Do you like cherries?

Yes, I like them very much. They’re tasty./ No, I don’t like cherries at all. They’re horrible. What about you?

WRITING.

         Now, let’s practice in writing sentences about your food preferences. Read, please, the prompts and elicit examples of what you are going to write about.

Write a few sentences about you like don’t like.

I like…

I don’t like…

Read out your sentences, please.

Nicely done!

The lesson is over. See you next time.