Primary Longman Elect 3 A Chapter 3 Quantifiers

Primary Longman Elect 3 A Chapter 3 Quantifiers for food and drinks

Let’s revise what we have learnt!

Food and drinks Countable nouns things we can count singular: plural: 1 peach only one more than one e. g. Singular Plural an apple two apples an orange three oranges a tomato four tomatoes 4 peaches

Food and drinks Uncountable nouns things we cannot count • followed by singular verbs only • cannot use a, an or 1, 2, 3… before them e. g. a / one water three waters water

Practice Countable or uncountable? e. g. rice orange Countable rice orange cola apple Uncountable cola apple water bread mango tomato

Practice Countable or uncountable? Countable pear tea egg hot dog soup cheese orange juice Uncountable tea egg hot dog soup cheese orange juice

Quantifiers for food and drinks • We use quantifiers before uncountable food and drinks to show the quantity. e. g. two milks two bottles of milk eight breads eight slices of bread

Quantifiers for food and drinks • We can also use quantifiers before countable food and drinks to show the quantity. e. g. a packet of potato chips two packets of peanuts

Quantifiers for food and drinks • We can also use quantifiers before countable food and drinks to show the quantity. e. g. a pizza a slice of pizza

Quantifiers for food and drinks water milk a bottle of cola orange juice

Quantifiers for food and drinks lemon tea hot chocolate a cup of cola coffee

Quantifiers for food and drinks lemon tea cola a can of juice

Quantifiers for food and drinks chicken wings a box of cereal

Quantifiers for food and drinks French fries potato chips a packet of biscuits peanuts

Quantifiers for food and drinks cake pizza a slice of bread cheese

Singular Plural + Food/Drinks a cup of two cups of lemon tea a box of four boxes of chicken wings a bottle of six bottles of water a can of eight cans of cola a packet of nine packets of potato chips a slice of ten slices of pizza

Practice Name the food and drinks. 1 a can of cola

Practice Name the food and drinks. 2 three cans of cola

Practice Name the food and drinks. 3 two slices of bread

Practice Name the food and drinks. 4 six bottles of milk

Practice Name the food and drinks. 5 a packet of potato chips

Practice Name the food and drinks. 6 two boxes of chicken wings

Practice Name the food and drinks. 7 four cups of lemon tea

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