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Unit 3. At the school canteen

Talking about food preferences

I like rice. I love pasta and cheese. I don’t like chocolate.

She likes fruit. He loves cauliflawer. He doesn’t like cheese.

We like watermelon. They love broccoli. They don’t like corn

Do you like lemons? Do you like rice?

Yes, I do. No, I don’t.

Does he like apples? Does she like pasta?

Yes, he does. No, she doesn’t.
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Quantifying Food

Some food can’t be counted. We call these words uncountable. The

ones we can count are called countable.

COUNTABLE NOUNS UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

We add -s to make its plural form.
When a countable noun is singular, we
have to use a/an, one, the before it.
Example:
Uncountable nouns haven’t got a plural
form. They’ve only got a singular form.
We can use them alone or add the
word some or any (interrogative and
negative sentences only).
If we want to quantify them, we add the
name of a container or mass/portion.

Example:

a lemon - two lemons

some broccoli

a carrot - three carrots

some cauliflower

a loaf of bread
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UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

a plate of pasta

a bowl of rice
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Present simple

Present simple
Read these sentences to learn to use and form the Present Simple.

I have lunch at two o’clock.

She eats a morning snack at school.
I don’t have dinner at home on Sundays.
He doesn’t eat fruit for dinner.
Do you eat an afternoon snack? No, I don’t.
Does she eat cake for breakfast? Yes, she does.

These sentences use the Present Simple. This tense is used for:
• Habitual actions: My mum has breakfast at eight o’clock every day.
• Feelings and emotions: I like fruit and vegetables.
• Permanent states: Cows eat grass.
• With verbs of senses: She smells the fruit.
To form the Present Simple, we follow these rules:

Affirmative Negative Interrogative

Subject (I/you/we/they) Subject (I/you/we/they) Do + subject (I/you/we/they)

+ verb + ... + don’t + verb + ... + verb + ...

Example: Example: Example:

They eat vegetables every We don’t like broccoli. Do you like chicken?
day.

Subject (he/she/it) + verb Subject (he/she/it) Does + subject (he/she/it)

ending in –s. + doesn’t + verb + ... + verb + ...

Example: Example: Example:

She likes fruit and He doesn’t eat a morning Does she eat an afternoon
chocolate. snack on Saturdays. snack on Mondays?
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Adverbs of frequency

To talk about routines, we use frequency adverbs.

Always / Eevery day

Usually

Often

Sometimes

Never
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Present simple

Do you remember in lesson 2, we talked about countable and

uncountable nouns?

We’re now going to learn a few words to quantify uncountable food names.
In general, with uncountable nouns, we can always use some or any in negative
sentences, but these words have meaning, they don’t say a quantity. We need to use
another word to express amount.
Here are some examples of words we use to express quantity:

a bag a box

a cup a carton

a jar a dozen

a bottle a glass

a bar a slice

a can