English for the beginner elementary course (28)

Complete the questions with how much or how many.

1.------------------- water do you drink every day?

2.------------------cups of coffee do you drink every day?

3.----------------- sugar do you have with your coffee?

4.-----------------red meat do you eat every week?

5---------------- rice do you have every day?

6.--------------- vegetables do you eat every day?

7.---------------friut do you eat every day?

8. -------------sweets and biscuits do you eat every week?

9.-------------cigarettes do you smoke every day?

10.-----------alcohol do you drink every week?

11.---------- hours’ sleep do you have every night.

12---------- time do you work on a computer every day?

13----------times do you go to gym or play sort every week?

14.--------- kilometres do you walk every day?

Look at the picture. Where are the people? find these things

Knives                                forks      spoons               a hat                sungless Soup            chicken              prawns                    plates                 cups                     a dress           Feathers            ballons              drums                     rice                  noodle

Useful langue

a) Describing your own picture in my picture--- There’s a (small boy) There aren’t any (balloons) On the left/ on the right/ in the middle, there’s

b) Asking questions in your picture, is there a (man) any (rice)? Has the got a (cap)? How many spoons are there? c) talking about differences in Picture A, there’s (a balloon/ aome soup) but in the picture B---------

Fill in the gaps with is/isn’t, are/aren’t or a/an/ some/any.

1. There --------------  -------------- milk, so I’ll have to go shopping.

2. ---------------- there ------------- students from Korea in this class?

3. There -------     ----------- coke in the classroom, but there ---------  --------------- water.

4. There ------------       ----------- TV in the classroom today.

5. There -----------   --------------- young children in the classroom.

6. Have you got ------------- pencil?

7. Have  you got------------- pets?

8. I’d like to have ------------ soup, please.

9. I haven’t got ----------- vegetable.

10. There -------------   ------------ ant on your shoulder.

How much and how many

Choose the correct alternative. When we ask questions we use: ·         How much with countable/ uncountable nouns. ·         How many with countable/ uncountable nouns.

Questions with how much?  And how many?

1) We use how many with countable plural nouns.

How many brothers / oranges/ children have you got?

How many cigarettes does Paul smoke every day?

2) we use how much with uncountable nouns.

How much rice/milk/ money have we got?

How much coffee does Elena drink in one week?

3) How much/ how many and there is /there are:

We use there are with countable plural nouns.

How many teachers are there in your classroom?

There are a bout twenty, I thank.

We use there is with uncountable nouns.

How much sugar is there in this cake?

It’s okay, there’s not much.