Healthy Living

A Tongue Twister

• How many cookies could a good cook cook, if a good cook could cook cookies?

How many cookiesCould a good cook cook,

If a good cookCould cook cookies?

Food for Thought

-What is the aim of our lesson?

-The aim is to practise speaking about food

(and other products that we can buy)

The Research

I. Complete the table using the key words

Plural Countable Nouns

Uncountable Nouns

Apples, potatoes, carrots, biscuits, oranges, sausages, bananas, cakes, hamburgers, lemons, onions, tomatoes

Chocolate, coffee, meat, cola, fish, juice, lemonade, milk, tuna, bread, cereal, pasta, rice, tea, water

The Research

II. Complete the sentences using the italicized key words.

1) My mother says we have some fish at home, so I can make sushi.

2) I need to buy an orange, a banana and an apple to make a fruit salad.

3) To make tomato soup I need some tomatoes, some water and an onion.

The Research

Conclusion I:

• With countable nouns in singular we use a/an

• With countable nouns in plural we use some

• With uncountable nouns we always use some

The Research

III. Remember the phrases from your dialogue:

“Er, we’ve got some sausages”“Is there any cola?”

“But there isn’t any mineral water”

The Research

Conclusion II:

• In affirmative sentences we use some

• In negative sentences we use any• In interrogative sentences we use

any

Home Assignment

• Do the exercises 1-7 on pages 48-49 in your LPBs