Countable and Uncountable Nouns Practise and revision.

Countable and Uncountable

Nouns

Practise and revision

Have a look on the words ending

• Countable Uncountable• -s -• a, an, the the

(kijelöléskor)• How many How much• some some • ?, –, any + -s ?,-, any • a few a little• a lot of a lot of

Countable and uncountable

countable uncountable• All countables - - names of food

nouns - names of drinks• Personal names - names of

materialse.g.: - some notions

girls, boys, chairs, e.g.: bread, milk, gold,

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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

• child children• mouse mice• foot feet• tooth teeth• man men• woman women

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 jam some 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,home

wok, tube,ham,money fridge, dog,loaf countable uncountable

Megoldás

countableuncountableshelf

waterapple cheesecar,

jam milkchair, bread

mouse

jarsoap

time,

homeworktube ham

money fridge

dog

loaf