1. Unit6 Food and lifestyle Countable and uncountable nouns
Grammar
Countable and uncountable nouns

2. Free talk:
What’s your favourite food?
2. Do you drink milk every day?
3. Do you have an apple every day?
4. What do you have for breakfast/ lunch/ supper?
5. Do you run every day or every week?
6. How do you keep healthy?

3. Tomorrow is Millie’s birthday
Tomorrow is Millie’s birthday.She will go shopping with her mother this evening.

4. Her mother is going to get ready for the birthday dinner
Her mother is going to get ready for the birthday dinner. So she needs to buy something.

5. Countable nouns Uncountable nouns
Put the things in the correct groups in the table below:
book juice apple salt banana carrot tomato beef pork orange toy sugar cola cake milk...
Countable nouns
Uncountable nouns
book apple banana carrot tomato orange toy cake...
juice salt
beef pork sugar cola milk...

6. an apple
a banana
a tomato
an orange

7. a an hamburger. cake. egg. orange. I want to buy
We use ‘a’ or ‘an’ before a singular countable noun. If the noun starts with a vowel(元音) sound, we use ‘an’.
I want to buy
hamburger.
cake.
egg.
orange. a an

8. “a” or “an” an an a an a Test you !
I spend about ____ hour reading books every night.
There is ____”s”and ____”u” in the word “use”.
She has ___ umbrella and ___ useful book. an a an a

9. a banana bananas an apple apples 1. 在一般情况下加-s。
To form the plural of the countable nouns:
a banana
bananas
an apple
apples
1. 在一般情况下加-s。

10. 2.以 “辅音字母+y”结尾的名词,把y改成i再加-es。
a strawberry
a toy
toys
strawberries
2.以 “辅音字母+y”结尾的名词,把y改成i再加-es。
以-y结尾 以 “元音字母+y”结尾的名词,或专用名词以y结尾的,直接在词尾加-s。

11. 3. 以-s, -x, -ch, -sh结尾的加-es。
boxes
watches
a box
a watch

12. photo radio kilo s s s 4. 以-o结尾且表示人或者农作物等有生命的事物的词后面加es其他加s. a potato
potatoes
photo
radio
kilo s s s
a tomato
tomatoes

13. 5. 以-f, -fe结尾 变f或fe为v,再加-es。
a knife
knives
a shelf
shelves

14. Singular(单数） plural(复数)
Most nouns
a cake→cakes
Nouns ending in a consonant +y
a story →stories
Nouns ending in s, sh, ch, or x
a glass →glasses, a wish →wishes,
a watch →watches, a box →boxes
Nouns ending in o
a potato →potatoes, a mango →mangoes, a radio → radios
Nouns ending in f or fe
a shelf →shelves, a knife →knives +s -y
+ies
+es
+s or +es
-f or fe
+ves

15. Special plural forms of some words：
man
woman
foot
tooth
child
fish
sheep
Chinese
men
[men]
women
[ˈwimin]
feet
teeth
children
fish
sheep
Chinese

16. To form the plural of the following words.
1.carrot __________ 2.lemon__________
3. dish__________ match__________
5.monkey__________ 6.holiday_________ library_________ radio__________
9.kilo___________ hero__________ shelf__________ life__________
13.woman_________ tooth_________ child__________ Chinese__________
carrots
lemons
dishes
matches
monkeys
holidays
libraries
radios
heroes
kilos
lives
shelves
women
teeth
children
Chinese

17. Test you ! 一位女教师 一些女教师 一位男医生 三位男医生 a woman teacher women teachers
a man doctor
three men doctors

18. books cake teeth knives fruits potatoes tomatoes watch wishes
Complete Millie and her mother’s shopping plan:
books
I want to buy some ______(book) and a nice birthday ______(cake) as my birthday presents. I like cakes although(尽管) they are not good for my______(tooth). My mother needs to buy two _______(knife) and some ______(fruit). She wants to buy some _______(tomato) and ________(potapo),too. She also wants to buy me a new______(watch) and gives me her best ______(wish) at birthday dinner.
cake
teeth
knives
fruits
potatoes
tomatoes
watch
wishes

19. number +noun+ of+ uncountable noun
packets of sugar
a packet of salt
a bottle of cola
number +noun+ of+ uncountable noun 量词
two cartons of milk
one carton of milk
three bottles of cola

20. bottle,packet, kilo, piece, carton,bag
Millie’s mother wants to buy something else for birthday dinner.Help her complete her shopping list below.
bottle,packet, kilo, piece, carton,bag
three cartons of
pieces of
___________ milk
_______ bread
two bags of
a packet of
_________ rice
________salt
kilos of
three_______ beef
a bottle of
__________cola

21. At the supermarket : P74 Millie: Mum, what do we need to buy?
Mum: We need some _______, a ____ of ____ and a _______ of _____.
Millie: Do we need to buy some ________.
Mum: Yes. Let’s buy some _______ and _________.
Millie: I want to buy some __________ They are Grandpa’s favourite. And we have only an ______ We need to buy some too.
Mum: OK. We can also buy a few________ of _________.
bag
chicken
rice
packet
salt
Vegetables
carrots
potatoes
oranges
apple
bottles
juice
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22. Millie is happy because tomorrow is her birthday
Millie is happy because tomorrow is her birthday. She write a passage about her birthday dinner on her blog(博客).
1.我和妈妈打算为我的生日做准备。我们需要买一些水果、蔬菜和其他食物。
2.我们打算买一些苹果，橘子和芒果；我们需要买2公斤鸡肉，三个土豆和一些胡萝卜；我们还想买一袋盐，一袋大米，五盒牛奶和几瓶橘子汁。
3.我想给自己买(buy myself)几本书和一个生日蛋糕作为我的生日礼物。
4.我希望我们度过一个愉快的生日晚餐。
My mother and I are getting ready for my birthday.___________________________________
___________________________________________
_________________________________.
I hope we have a nice birthday dinner.

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Do exercise on page62-63.
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