Countable and Uncountable Nouns Practise and revision
Have a look on the words ending CountableUncountable -s- a, an, thethe (kijelöléskor) How manyHow much somesome ?, –, any + -s?,-, any a fewa little a lot ofa lot of
Countable and uncountable countable uncountable All countables -- names of food nouns - names of drinks Personal names- names of materials e.g.: - some notions girls, boys, chairs, e.g.: bread, milk, gold, orange homework
They can be found only in sigular sheep advice homework news person
They can be found only in plural police people jeans scissors clothes trousers
From uncountable into countable a piece of a slice of a bar of a bottle of a glass of a carton of a box of a cup of
Spelling rules I. -s,-ss,-ch,-tch,-x bus - buses class - classes match - matches church- churches box - boxes
Spelling rules II. If the noun ends in y and before y there is a consonant: baby - babies lady - ladies city- cities
Spelling rules III. If the noun ends in f the plural form ends will be -ves knife - knives leaf - leaves shelf - shelves wife- wives
Irregular plurals childchildren mousemice footfeet toothteeth manmen womanwomen
The gender of nouns masculine feminine actor actress waiter waitress boy girl king queen
Groupwork What is in the picture? E.g.: a banana
Solution a slice of ham a pear a carton of milk a pocket of chips a jar of jamsome solami two peaches two bottles of juice a piece of cake a cup of coffee two glasses of champagne
Memory game Have a look in the pictures and after try to write down what you saw!
Solution two knives three balls two giraffes a jar of jam a box of eggs an alligator two stwberries two slices of cake a boy a glass of champagne
Grouping shelf,water,apple,cheese,car,jam,milk, chair,bread,mouse,jar,soap,time,homewok, tube,ham,money fridge, dog,loaf countableuncountable
Megoldás countable uncountable shelf waterapple cheese car, jam milk chair, bread mouse jar soap time, homework tube ham money fridge dog loaf