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Articles and quantifiers

I can identify and usecountable and uncountable nouns;I can use some, any and

a lot of with countable and uncountable nouns.

A, an and some

Some nouns only have one form.These are
t\oW much fruit is there in the fnd uncountable nouns.
milk, homework,juice, butter

We can't count uncountable nouns,so we

can't use numbers with them. We use some
or nothing before them.
I always do some homeworkafter school.
Doyou want mayonnaiseon your sandwich?
Inpositive sentences, we use there is and there
are like this:
There's a melon, there are two apples
There is ... + There are ...+
and there are aboutlO oranges.
singular countable plural countable
Most nouns have singular and pluralforms.These are
nouns nouns
countable nouns.
There's an apple. There are bananas.
cup -> cups table -* tables child-> children
There's a bus. There arecars.
We can use a,some or a number before countable nouns'.

There is ... +
Singular Plural
uncountable nouns
a bottle some bottles
There's fruit.
one bottle six bottles
There's traffic.

* 1 Write C (countable) or U (uncountable). O 52 O 3.1 Circlethe correct answer. Listen and O

ÿ hospital C_ 14 sugar _ check, then listen and repeat.
1 toothpaste _ 15 bread _ ÿ There's a /ÿome)bread inthe bag.
_ _
2 pencil 16 star 1 Ican see some bird/ birds.

3 spoon _ 17 lesson _ 2 There's a snow / snow on those mountains.
4 jam _ 18 coffee _ 3 There 's / are two men on the boat.
5 necklace _ 19 river _ 4 Would you like some / an ice in your drink?

6 plan _ 20 clock _ 5 Iwant some /two free time.
7 salt _ 21 jewellery _ 6 You've got a tomato sauce / tomato sauce

8 time _ 22 traffic _ on your face!
9 money _ 23 piece _ 7 Ilove rain/ a rain!

10 petrol _ 24 juice _ 8 This furniture is/are very nice.
_ _
11 cup 25 furniture
12 friend _ 26 tea _
_ _
13 rain 27 box

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