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b Here is the Ronayne family shopping list. Answer the questions.

i Choose the correct alternatives.

a The red words are countable/ uncountable nouns. b The blue words are countable/ uncountable nouns. c Uncountable nouns do not have singular/plural forms.

2 How do we measure uncountable nouns?

12 botAog$

450g cereoI

12 eggs

H litref miIk 2 Iifres orange juice 18 bananas 1 pizza

(olSg minced beef

b Answer the questions, then complete the Active grammar box.

1    How much coffee does the Costa family buy each week?

2    How many pineapples do they buy?

Active grammar

We use How

We use How

with countable nouns. with uncountable nouns.

see Reference page 43

c Write the headings in the Active grammar box. Uncountable nouns    Countable nouns

Active grammar

•    They have singular and plural forms.

•    We can use numbers in front of them.

•    They do not have plural forms.

•    We cannot use numbers in front of them.

•    We often use quantity words (e.g. litres, kilos) + of in front of them.

see Reference page 43

4 a Here are the shopping lists for the Costa and Ukita families. Write the food words in the table.

Cosfa.

1 pi^iMpph

tf Wi (K^ poisła

sss

untd

*?Kg rice 4 litres mik Z pizza s ZKg tuna IZ eggs ?00g beef 1 Kg tomatoes Z litres cola

5    a Complete with words and phrases from the box.

^ 2kg coffee much tomatoes many

A: How (1)_rice do you buy each week?

B: I usually buy (2)_of rice.

A: And how many (3)_do you eat?

B: About (4)_.

A: How much (5)_do you buy?

B: I buy about 250g of coffee.

A: How (6)_pineapples do you get?

B: Oh, only one.

b CD Listen and check your answers.

6    CD Listen and complete the quantities.

6 litres water

1    _milk    4 _coffee

2    _rice    5 _cheese

3    _bananas

say ąuantities and numbers

Number	Quantity
201 fwo hundred and one	litres (l)
450 four hundred and fifty	grammes (g)
675 six hundred and seventy-five	kilos (kg)
1.5 one point five/one and a half

Z

500g Croff&z IZ baiumas zerzpil

f. COUNTABLE	UNCOUNTABLE	\
pineapple	bread
V_

7 Ask questions about your partner’s weekly shopping. Make notes and tell the class.

A: How much rice do you buy?

B: 500 grammes./l don’t buy rice.

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