Unit 04 A good buy - LESSON 3A GRAMMAR

LESSON 3A GRAMMAR

Quantifiers in English - Complete Learning Guide

Breakfast foods and quantifiers learning

💬 1. Breakfast Discussion

In groups, discuss the strangest/biggest breakfasts you know about:

"The strangest breakfast I know about is my dad's. He eats..."

Students' own answers

📝 2-3. Food Vocabulary & Quantifiers

2. Add food and drink names to the table:
Countable Nouns Uncountable Nouns
eggs, olives, rolls, beans, grapes fruit, cream, honey, jam, sugar
3. Quantifiers Grammar - Complete the table:
Countable Quantifiers Uncountable Quantifiers
a couple of, a few, many, too many a little, a bit of, much, too much, a lot of, lots of

WATCH OUT!

• There's a (little) bit of cheese.

• How much cheese is there? There's a (little) bit.

• There's a lot/lots of milk.


📖 4. Quantifiers Practice

4. Choose the correct quantifiers:

HuaGuangzhou: In China, we don't have enough time to eat breakfast at home, so a lot of people eat breakfast while travelling to work.

Fatima2go: I think we eat too much food in the USA. A popular breakfast is a few pancakes with some butter and a little bit of maple syrup. And maybe a couple of muffins, too!

Kareem_knows: Polish people eat lots of cold things for breakfast: cheese, meat and fish. There isn't much fresh fruit in a typical Polish breakfast, especially in winter. There aren't enough fresh vegetables, either.


✍️ 5. Shopping List Exercise

5. Make sentences with the shopping list:

Shopping List for a Picnic for Six People

• 1 bottle of water (330 ml)

• 1 bag of salad

• 12 watermelons

• 2 kilos of yoghurt

• 2 cartons of juice (200 ml)

• 2 small pots of hummus

• 36 bread rolls

• 6 kilos of cheese

Suggested Answers:

There isn't enough water.

There isn't enough salad.

There are too many watermelons.

There is too much yoghurt.

There isn't enough juice.

There isn't enough hummus.

There is too much bread.

There is too much cheese.

There isn't enough fruit.


📒 Workbook Exercises

1. Put words in correct columns:

There's some ...

cream

fruit

honey

jam

sugar

There are some ...

beans

eggs

grapes

olives

rolls

3. Complete sentences with correct words:
1 How much bread is there in the cupboard?
2 There isn't enough sugar in my tea. Can I have some more?
3 There's a little salt in the soup but not much.
4 How many mushrooms did you find in the forest?
5 There's too much sugar in this tea – I don't like it so sweet.
6 Take as many rolls as you want – we've got lots of them.
7 You can have a few crisps, but not many – they're not good for you.
8 We need a lot of eggs for this recipe.
4. Complete questions and answers:

Amer: Are there any rolls?

Fadi: Yes, there are a few rolls.

Kamal: How many grapes are there?

Ali: There are a few grapes.

Issa: How much cheese is there?

Omar: There isn't any cheese.

Alia: Is there any jam?

Huda: Yes, there is a lot of jam.

Maha: How much water is there?

Rana: There is a little water.

Maher: How many olives are there?

Rakan: There aren't any olives.

🔗 Additional Grammar Resources

🌐 External Resources:

🎓 Cambridge English - Countable/Uncountable:
https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/learning-english/grammar
🏫 Perfect English Grammar - Quantifiers:
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/quantifiers.html
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