Unit 6 Food and lifestyleGrammar

Nouns

Countable Nouns

Uncountable Nouns

可数名词 不可数名词

名词

countable uncountable

… …

apple orange cup plate egg dish tea salt beef bread hamburger potato Coke bowl juicemeat milk rice tomato paper

Can you help them find the right family?

apple orange cup plate egg dish hamburger potato bowl tomato

tea salt beef breadCoke juice meat milk rice paper

an apple a pear

an orange

a banana

an egg a carrot

Task 1 : Countable Nouns

I want to buy

ahamburger.cake.

anegg.orange.

We use ‘a’ or ‘an’ before a singular countable noun. If the noun starts with a vowel( 元音 ) sound, we use ‘an’.

[ e ]

[Ɔ ]

a pig two pigs

a dog two dogs

a banana

many bananas

an orange

two oranges

a cat

four cats

a bird

two birds

1.Most nouns +s

a library

two libraries

some stories

A boy –two boys

a story( 故事 n.)

2.Nouns ending in a consonant +y

- y+ies

a bus

three buses

a box

eight boxes

a watch

two watches

3.Nouns ending in s,sh,ch or x

+es

three tomatoes

a potato some potatoes

a mango some mangoes

a tomato

a photo

some photos

4.Nouns ending in o

+s or +es

a hero

some heroes

Heroes love mangoes, tomatoes and potatoes ！

英雄爱吃芒果西红柿和土豆！

a shelf （架子n. ）

two shelves

5.Nouns ending in f or fe - f/fe +ves

Japanese

6.Some other nouns

man

foot

sheep

woman

tooth

child

men

sheep

children

women

Japanese

teeth

feet

Chinese Chinese

Singular( 单数） plural( 复数 )

Most nouns +s a cake→cakes

Nouns ending in a consonant +y

-y +iesa story ( 故事 n. ） → storiesbaby → babies, library → libraries

Nouns ending in s, sh, ch, or x

+esa glass →glasses, a wish →wishes,a watch →watches, a box →boxes

Nouns ending in o+s or +es

a potato( 土豆 n.) →potatoes, a radio → radios,a mango →mangoes,

Nouns ending in f or fe

-f or- fe +ves

a shelf ( 架子 n.) →shelves, a knife ( 刀 n.)→knives

Some other nouns

man →men, woman →women, foot→feet, tooth→teeth, child →children sheep →sheep, deer→deer, Chinese→Chinese , Japanese →Japanese

cake library

watch woman

tomato Chinese

match fox

potato life

monkey glass

bike kilo

cat foot

bird half

knife family

wish child

cakes

watches

foxes

women

libraries

matches

wishes

potatoes

knives

monkeys

cats

birds

families

halves

feet

kilos

glasses

lives

tomatoes

bikes

Chinese

children

Task2:Practise

十一个婴儿

九个男孩

四个班级

我的五张相片

六头大象

三个好朋友

十八只猴子

七把小刀

eleven babies

nine boys

four classes

my five photos

six elephants

three good friends

eighteen monkeys

seven knives

We can also use nouns in front of We can also use nouns in front of uncountable nouns uncountable nouns to show their amountsto show their amounts..

a…of + uncountable noun

a glass of milk a plate of meat

Task 3 : Uncountable Nouns

a…of + uncountable noun

a cup of tea

a packet of salt a bowl of rice

a cup of tea

two cups of tea

a glass of water

two glasses of water

a bottle of coke

six bottles of coke

a packet of salt

two packets of salt

a kilo of fish

three kilos of fish

Finish and write the nouns in the

correct column of the table.

Millie: Mum ,What do we need?

Mrs. Wang: We need some _________,

a____ of_____ and

a ________ of____.

Millie: Do we need to buy some

_______?

chicken

bag rice

packet salt

vegetables

Mrs. Wang: 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.

carrots

potatoes

mangoes

apple

Mrs. Wang: OK. We can also buy a few

_________of ______.bottles juice

bagbag packetpacket appleapple

vegetablesvegetables carrotscarrotspotatoespotatoes orangesorangesbottlesbottles

chickenchicken ricerice saltsalt

1 十二个鸡蛋

2 一个橘子

3 三碗米饭

4 七瓶牛奶

5 五千克肉

6 六把小刀

7 两篮土豆

8 四袋盐

twelve eggs

an orangethree bowls of riceseven bottles of milkfive kilos of meatsix knives

two baskets of potatoesfour packets of salt

Task4:Practise

一些牛奶

一个小时

两袋 大米

五公斤肉

几袋盐

一杯茶

三碗汤

两瓶牛奶

一篮水果

some milk

an hourtwo bags of rice

five kilos of meatsome packets of salt

a cup of tea

three bowls of souptwo glasses of milk

a basket of fruit

What is on the teacher’s desk?

B: Yes, there is/are ……/No……

A: Is/are there a/any ……

orangeapplepearmilk

tomatopotato breadjuicesalt

sugar

What’s wrong with the sentences?

1.There is many juice in the glass.

2.There are some bread on the table.

6.There are an orange and two bags of rice there.

4.There is some pork and beefs on the table.

5.There is an meat in the box.

3.Is there two glasses of milk in our classroom?

?Help !!

much

is

Are

beef

is

some

Exercise Time !!

Homework:Homework:1.Revise grammar.1.Revise grammar.

2.Do some exercises.2.Do some exercises.

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