Communicative English II

Elementary
Business English
Unit 3: Going out
Session: Friday , May 29th

Prof. Carmen Gloria Pérez, Mg.

Profesor Asistente
Escuela de Administración y Negocios
Universidad de Concepción
Campus Chillán
Learning objective:

• Use English countable and uncountable nouns in sentences.

• Use questions to offer food or drinks

 Foods words are nouns.
Nouns represent things,
people, concepts.

Nouns in English can be

classified into
countable/uncountable

When you learn a new noun, you

should check if it is countable or
uncountable and note how it is used
in a sentence.

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 Countable nouns can be counted.
e.g. An apple, two apples, three apples.

For positive sentences we can use a/an For negatives we can use a/an for
for singular nouns or some for plurals. singular nouns or any for plurals

There's a man at the door. I don't have a dog.

I have some friends in New York There aren't any seats

Unit3 Countable nouns

 Countable nouns

Most countable noun form their plural with an S.

Example: Apple - apples

The plural form of some uncountable nouns is irregular.

They don’t form the plural with an S.

Singular Plural
Person People
Child Children
Man Men
Woman Women
Foot Feet
Tooth Teeth

Unit3 Countable nouns

 Uncountable nouns cannot be counted, e.g. air, rice, water, etc.

Here are some examples of uncountable nouns:

bread rice coffee information
money advice luggage furniture

For positive sentences, use some with For negatives, use any with uncountable
uncountable nouns nouns.
there isn’t any coffee.
There’s some milk in the fridge

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 Uncountable nouns
• They are smaller number of nouns in English.
• There are many exceptions to this, but in general you can’t count uncountable nouns.
• They don’t make their plural form by adding S.

You can’t say

abstract nouns I have a happiness
happiness darkness I have a money
Materials
wood fabric
Elements
water air
Food and drink
rice - juice – coffee
Categories
Money Furniture

Unit3 UnCountable nouns

 Some examples of English uncountable nouns.
Look up the meaning of these
Words.

Unit3 UnCountable nouns

 Questions with countable and uncountable nouns.

In questions we use a/an, any or how many with And we use any or how much with uncountable nouns.
countable nouns.
Is there any sugar?
Is there an email address to write to? How much orange juice is there?
Are there any chairs?
How many chairs are there?

But when we are offering something or asking for

something,
we normally use some.

Do you want some chocolate?

Can we have some more chairs, please?

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1. cake 20. Tea
Uncountable food names .
2. bread 21. Tuna
3. cabbage 22. water
4. coffee 23. ham
5. Corn 24. mayonnaise
6. fruit 25. mustard
7. ice cream 26. sauce
27. garlic
8. lettuce
28. Beer
9. lobster
10.milk
11.pasta
12.rice
13.salad
14.shrimp
15.soup
16.spaghetti
17.sugar
18.tea
19.toast

Unit3 UnCountable nouns

 Using quantifiers with nouns

COUNTABLE UNCOUNTABLE

a few (unos pocos) A Little (un poco)

Many /several (varios, hartos) Much (mucho)
a lot of (varios, hartos) A lot of (harto, mucho)

Unit3 UnCountable nouns

 There’s an apple in the fridge
There are some apples in the fridge

There aren’t any apples in the fridge

There are many apples in the fridge

There are several apples in the fridge

There are few apples There are a lot of apples in the fridge

Unit3 UnCountable nouns

 There isn’t any milk in the bottle
There is some milk in the fridge

There’s much milk

There is a lot of milk
There’s a little milk in the bottle

Mostly, to quantify food or beverages that are uncountable, we can count the containers
they come.
Unit3 UnCountable nouns
 How to quantify countable /uncountable nouns using other words
grams gramos
kilos kilos
A bottle botella
A can lata
A cup taza
A glass vaso A piece of cake

A packet bolsa, paquete a bunch of spinach

a spoon cucharada
a piece Un trozo
a slice Una rebanada
a serving Una porcion
A head of lettuce
A jar Un frasco
Bar Barra
A box caja An ear of corn

Unit3 UnCountable nouns

 a can of soda / cola
a cup of coffee a glass of milk

If it’s countable I ask: If it’s non-countable I ask:

HOW MANY? HOW MUCH?

How many cups of coffee do

How much coffee did you
you drink every morning?
drink yesterday?

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 Are you hungry?

Yes, I am. No, I’m not.

What would you like to eat?

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 Are you thirsty?

Yes, I am. No, I’m not.

What would you like to drink?

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 Countable nouns Uncountable nouns
Singular
Plural

Would you like an egg?

Would you like some fruit?
Would you like some strawberries?

a/an/some
 Complete with a/an ; some; any as corresponds.

1. How ______ people are coming?

2. We have _______ chicken but there isn’t _____ rice.
3. How___________ water do you think we need?
4. There is ________ cat in the garden
5. I have _______ new shoes
6. Do you have _______ advice for me?
7. We have _______ chairs, but we don’t have ______ tables
8. There isn't ________ bread.
9. Do you want _______ coffee?
10. I made ________ pasta? Would you like ______?

Unit3 Going out

Uncountable nouns do no have a plural form in English.
We use countable words to make them singular or plural

For example:
Milk does not have a plural form

to refer to milk in plural, we may use

2 glasses of milk
6 liters of milk
A carton of milk
much milk (not many)
Some milk
 Write a form to make the foods in the photos countable.
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e.g. A bag of pasta / a packet of pasta
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2 3

6 7

8 9
 Listen to the conversations. Where are these people? Number
the answers 1-4. (B1 T64)
Describe this picture. 1

Listen again. What does each guest want?

OfferingFood&drink
Play online. Go to CANVAS and build your food Pictionary. Match the words with the pictures.
 Thanks!
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