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4 LaNgUage fOCUs • Quantifiers
I can give information about the amount or quantity of nouns.
Language note
1 Complete the sentences with the quantifiers 4 Complete the dialogues.
in the box. There is one extra quantifier. A Enough comes before a noun, not after
a few a little a lot of enough Myra How 1 meat do you eat it: There isn’t enough food. (NOT There isn’t
each week?
many (×2) much (×2) food enough.)
Pete I love meat, so I eat a 2 of it.
1 That’s too hungry children. Twice a day in fact. We can use too much and too many to
2 There are hungry people in Myra That’s 3 much meat! mean ‘more than we need or want’: I’ve
the world, but only people are B
trying to do something about it. 4 got too much homework! You shouldn’t
3 We’ll need to provide protein. Simon Do you eat 5 fruit? pieces buy too many cans of drink.
Maria I think so. I eat a
4 Insects don’t need as space or of fruit every evening. But my mum
water. says it’s 6 enough.
5 How people will eat insects in exercise 3
the future? 5 Use IT! Use the dialogues in exercise 4,
6 How food made with insects replace the words in blue with the words in Students read the text and choose the
will you eat? the box and a time phrase. correct options. Check answers with
2 Answer the questions in the rules with the chocolate / eat milk / drink
words in exercise 1. the class.
rubbish / recycle water / waste
rULes ANSWerS
1 Which quantifiers can we use with 1 much 2 A lot of 3 not enough
countable nouns? 4 how many 5 too many 6 a few
2 Which quantifiers can we use with How much milk do you drink each day? 7 a little
uncountable nouns?
3 Which quantifiers can we use to say there How much rubbish does your
are small quantities of something? family recycle each week? exercise 4
4 Which quantifiers can we use to say there
are large quantities of something? Finished? Students read the dialogues and complete
5 Which quantifier means ‘sufficient’? them with the missing words. With
Write some rules for your class about
how everyone can help reduce waste. Use weaker classes, students could work in
3 Read the tips for reducing waste. Then quantifiers wherever possible.
choose the correct options. pairs for this. Check answers with the class.
ANSWerS
REDUCE your does your family throw away too much / many food? 1 much 2 lot 3 too 4 enough
1
here are a few tips you can follow to reduce waste.
WastE in 4 easy steps Tip 1 make a shopping list before going shopping. 5 few 6 not
2 a lot of / a few food goes in the bin as not enough / a little
3
people write down exactly what they need to buy at the shops. exercise 5 USe IT!
Tip 2 check the fridge and food cupboards before you shop and
buy only what you really need. Read out the example questions and elicit
It’s amazing how many / how much things we buy that some answers from individual students.
4
we already have. We throw away too many / enough
5
things just to make room for new products. Students then work in pairs to write
Tip 3 buy the freshest food you can. and practise their dialogues. Encourage
6
You may spend a little / a few pounds more, stronger students to use their own ideas,
but fresh food is much better for you.
7
Tip 4 Take a lot of / a little time to create a menu as well as the ideas in the box. Ask some
for the week. You can do it quickly, and it students to perform their dialogues for
means that you won’t buy things you the class.
don’t need.
ANSWerS
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Students’ own answers.
Finished?
Language focus • exercise 1 Refer fast finishers to the Finished?
Quantifiers Students complete the sentences with the activity. Students can write their rules
correct words from the article on page 40.
individually, then compare their ideas in
Check answers with the class. Elicit which pairs. Alternatively, ask them to read their
Aim quantifier isn’t used and elicit or give an
Give information about the amount or example of its use, e.g. Insects only need a rules to the class. Ask other students which
rules they agree with and why. You could
quantity of nouns. little food each day. build up a list of students’ favourite rules
ANSWerS on the board.
Warm-up 1 many 2 a lot (of), a few 3 enough More practice
Ask what students can remember about 4 much 5 many 6 much (a little isn’t Workbook page 27
the article on insects. Elicit a few ideas, used) Practice Kit Grammar 7
then ask: Do we use a lot of different plants
and animals for food? Write on the board: exercise 2 Assessment
We only use a few plants and animals for Check that students understand sufficient, Five-minute test, Teacher’s Resource Disk
food. Ask: How much land and water does it then put them into pairs to answer the
take to produce meat? Elicit some answers, questions. With weaker classes, focus
and write on the board: It takes a lot of land on the nouns in exercise 1 first, and elicit
and water. which are countable and which are
Underline a lot of and a few on the board uncountable. Check answers with the class.
and ask: Which one is a large quantity? (a lot ANSWerS
of) Which is a small quantity? (a few). Ask 1 many, a few, a lot of, enough
students to translate the sentences into 2 enough, much, a little, a lot of
Vietnamese. 3 a few, a little
4 a lot of, much, many
5 enough

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