Countable nouns are words like car, book, and chair. They are the names of things that you can count: you can say “one car”, “two books”… They can be singular ( a cat, a book) or plural ( two chairs, lots of books)

Uncountable nouns are words like rice, smoke, sugar, water. These are things that you can´t count: you say “smoke” but not “one smoke”. Uncountable nouns are only singular.

D) Put a / an or nothing (-):

• I need ________ new car.

• I never drink ________ coke.

• Mary is ________old friend.

• She was wearing ________ blue jumper.

• The table is made of ________ glass.

• I often listen to ________ music.

• The police are looking for him with ________ dogs.

• My room has got ________ really big bed.

E) Put in a / an or one.

• She´s got ________ nice skirt.

• She´s only got ________ coat.

• Can I have ________ boiled egg?

• No, I said ________ egg, not two.

• I´ve got ________ problem. Can you help me?

• She´s only got ________ child.

• ­________ boyfriend is enough.

1. Put a “C” for Countable and “U” for Uncountable.

• Tea

• Pencil

• Furniture

• Bicycle

• Beauty

• Turnips

• Money

• Dish

• Sugar

• Rice

• Dress

• Advice

B) Choose an appropriate noun + of to indicate quantity.

Example: biscuits / three - three packets of biscuits.

• Bread / four __________________________

• Coffee / two __________________________

• Soap / two ___________________________

• Cake / tree ___________________________

• Meat / two ___________________________

• Sugar / tree ___________________________

• Milk / five _____________________________

Cup slice packet pocket bottle jar bar glass

C) Look at the Picture and write complete sentences using phrases of quantity:

Example:

I need to buy a tin of sardines.

• ­­­______________________

• ______________________

• ______________________

• ______________________

• ______________________

• ______________________

• ______________________

• ______________________

• ______________________

• ______________________

Bag

Bar

Bottle

Box

Bunch

Can

Kilo

Dozen

Jar

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