1 Listen and choose the correct option. 2 Copy and complete the table with your answers from exercise 1. Breakfast ideas A … … An … … Some cereal … … … … … NOUNS Countable nouns Uncountable nouns You can count them. A lemon, two lemons. An apple, two apples. You need a unit of measurement or a container. Some bread, a slice of bread. Some coffee, a cup of coffee. They have a plural form. I eat a banana for breakfast. I ate two bananas last night! They don’t have a plural form. I drink milk for breakfast. I drank two glasses of milk last night! Use there is or there are. There is a kiwi on the table. There are two kiwis here. Use there is some. There is some butter in the fridge. Use there aren’t any. There aren’t any mangoes in the fridge. Use there isn’t any. There isn’t any toast on the plate. 3 Classify the nouns as countable or uncountable. banana bread butter cereal cheese egg kiwi mango milk orange pear yogurt Language reference page 71 Breakfast is important! Breakfast gives you energy to start the day. You can have some 1 cereal / orange with 2 butter / milk or an 3 egg / banana and some bread. Open the fridge, maybe there is some 4 yogurt / mango. Is there any fruit? Have some! Cut an 5 kiwi / apple, a 6 kiwi / apple or a 7 banana / grapes into pieces and mix it with some muesli and milk. Some 8 coffee / pear, some 9 cheese / egg and some 10 toast / strawberry can be a nice alternative too. 8.2 46 6 Do all exercises in your notebook Food / Nouns: Countable and uncountable / Quantifiers Discuss the questions. 1 What’s your favourite meal of the day? 2 How does food affect the way you feel? 3 What kinds of food give you energy? Vocabulary and grammar 6.1 HEALTHY FOOD In unit 6 you will: ❚ talk about food, quantities and recipes. ❚ identify countable and uncountable nouns. ❚ talk about measurements of food. ❚ write a report. Get started! Richmond
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