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

Let’s revise what we have learnt!

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

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

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

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

  Quantifiers for food and drinks We use quantifiers before uncountable food and drinks to show the quantity. e.g.   two milks eight breads two bottles of milk 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 slice of pizza a pizza

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

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

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

Quantifiers for food and drinks a box of chicken wings cereal

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

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

+ 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

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

two boxes of chicken wings 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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