LESSON 3A GRAMMAR
Quantifiers in English - Complete Learning Guide
📚 Table of Contents
💬 1. Breakfast Discussion
"The strangest breakfast I know about is my dad's. He eats..."
📝 2-3. Food Vocabulary & Quantifiers
| Countable Nouns | Uncountable Nouns |
|---|---|
| eggs, olives, rolls, beans, grapes | fruit, cream, honey, jam, sugar |
| 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
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
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
There's some ...
cream
fruit
honey
jam
sugar
There are some ...
beans
eggs
grapes
olives
rolls
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:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/quantifiers
https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/learning-english/grammar
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/quantifiers.html