7A unit 6 Food and lifestyle
Grammar
Countable and uncountable nouns.
Revision
Let’s watch a video with 2 questions.
1.How to keep healthy?
2.What food does he like eating?
New lesson.
Today we’ll learn something about nouns.
Enjoy some pictures.
A banana
A book
An egg
An apple
Discuss the difference.
What’s this? What are they?
a pig
Think about this :
why should we add “s”?
2 pigs
a dog
2dogs
a banana
five bananas
an orange
2 oranges
write the plural form of countable nouns and work out the rules
friend_____
vegetable_____
age _____
month_____
pig_____
apple_____
city_____
baby_____
friends
vegetables
ages
months
pigs
apples
cities
babies
potato_____
zoo_____
bamboo_____
hero_____
tomato_____
piano_____
photo_____
kangaroo_____
potatoes
zoos
bamboos
heroes
tomatoes
pianos
photos
kangaroos
write the plural form of countable nouns and work out the rules
bus_____
box_____
glass_____
life_____
bench_____
knife_____
stomach_____
dish_____
buses
boxes
glasses
lives
benches
knives
stomachs
dishes
write the plural form of countable nouns and work out the rules
mouse_____
deer_____
tooth_____
woman_____
sheep_____
ox_____
man_____
mice
deer
teeth
women
sheep
oxen
men
write the plural form of countable nouns and work out the rules
To form the plural form of most countable nouns, we add ‘s’ to the singular form.
However, there are some exceptions.
Most nouns
+ s
a book → books
Nouns ending in a consonant + y
– y + ies
a story → stories
Nouns ending in s, sh, ch or x
+ es
a glass → glasses
a wish → wishes
a watch → watches
a box → boxes
Nouns ending in o
+ s
+ es
a piano → pianos
a radio → radios
a mango → mangoes
Nouns ending in f or fe
– f or fe + ves
a shelf →shelves
a knife →knives
Most nouns + S
cakes
Some other nouns
man
foot
fish
sheep
woman
tooth
Chinese
men
sheep
Chinese
women
fish
teeth
feet
The plural of most
countable nouns
(复数)
What”s this?
It’s a milk. Why?
It’s a glass of milk.(√)
We can also use nouns in front of uncountable nouns to show their amounts.
A _____ of + uncountable noun.
A glass of water
A kilo of meat
A cup of tea
A packet of salt
We can also use nouns in front of uncountable nouns to show their amounts.
A _____ of + uncountable noun.
A bowl of rice
2 packets of salt
3 glasses of juice
We can also use nouns in front of uncountable nouns to show their amounts.
A _____ of + uncountable noun.
Bread
A piece of bread
Water
A glass of water
Chicken
A plate of chicken
We can also use nouns in front of uncountable nouns to show their amounts.
A _____ of + uncountable noun.
Salt
A packet of salt
Rice
Two bags of rice
Tea
Three cups of tea
We can also use nouns in front of uncountable nouns to show their amounts.
A _____ of + uncountable noun.
Meat
Four kilos of meat
Milk
Five cartons of milk
Juice
Six bottles of juice
Play a cutting game.
Millie and her mother are shopping at the supermarket. Complete their conversation. Then put the things into the correct categories in the table.
chicken
bag
rice
packet
salt
vegetables
carrots
potatoes
oranges
apple
bottles
juice
Countable nouns (singular)
Countable nouns (plural)
Uncountable nouns
bag packet apple
vegetables carrots potatoes oranges bottles
chicken rice salt juice
Do some exercises.
1. Write the plurals of these words.
matches
watches
months
boxes
libraries
stories
radios
feet
women
babies
Do some exercises.
2. Translate the phrases into English.
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
Do some exercises.
2. Translate the phrases into English.
三碗米饭
七瓶牛奶
五千克肉
六把小刀
两篮土豆
四袋盐
three bowls of rice
seven bottles of milk
five kilos of meat
six knives
two baskets of potatoes
four packets of salt
Do some exercises.
2. Translate the phrases into English.
三袋大米
两公斤肉
一张纸
两片面包
四杯茶
五盒牛奶
three bags of rice
two kilos of meat
a piece of paper
two pieces of bread
four cups of tea
five cartons of milk
Suppose you want to buy some food and drinks for the picnic, please make a dialogue with your classmates.
Homework
1. Go over the usage of the grammar points in this lesson.
2. Find more countable nouns and uncountable nouns.
3. Preview the next lesson.
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