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3 Write the plural form if the noun is countable. 01.2 What are they talking about?

ÿ baby babies 7 petrol Listen and number from 1-8.
ÿ rice 8 person
9 advice
1 station
2 knife 10 tooth
3 rain 11 education
12 child
4 party -
13 journey
5 money
14 electricity
6 dress

Quantities

We use a or an with singular countable nouns.
I'd l ike an orange.
Have you got a phone?
We use a before a consonant sound and an before a
vowel sound.
a computer a house
a university (starts with /j/ consonant sound)
an apple an island
an hour (starts with /ao/ vowel sound)

We don't usually use a or an with uncountable nouns.
Ifd like & cheese.

We use some with uncountable nouns and plural
countable nouns.

We've got some homework tonight .
They need some books.
If we want to count uncountable nouns, we
sometimes use a word for a container (bottle, cup)
or quantity (kilo, litre) with of. See page 173 for a list
of words.

5 Complete the sentences with the words in the
box. You can use words more than once. 6 Match the beginnings and ends of the sentences.

a an a cup a kilo some ÿ Have you got a bag of d ?

1 Let's get her a box of _ .
2 Check in the fridge. I don't think we've got any
ÿ I'd like to listen to zom music .
1 My cousins live in_apartment.
2 Please put_butter on my sandwiches. 3 Can you get me an
_
3 Can you buy me_of cheese? 4 I need two packets of
4 Bill has got_old watch. 5 There isn't any
_ .
5 I'd like_water.
6 Mrs Jackson is_science teacher. a milk
7 Would you like_of tea? b biscuits
8 The police officer wants_information c chocolates
about the accident. d-fleur
9 That's_long email. e oil
10 They need new equipment for the gym. f apple

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