HAND OUT №22 (22)
Discipline: English as a foreign Credits – 2
language
Beginner level Practical lesson
Lexical theme: Food around the world
Grammar: Countable and uncountable
nouns; some, any
Teacher: assistant professor
Sultanbayeva Zhaina Ubaidullayevna
Exercise 1. Read and translate the text.
Food around the world
The kind of food we eat depends on which part of the world we live in, or
which part of our country we live in. In the south of China they eat rice, but in the
north they eat noodles. In Germany and Poland there are hundreds of different
kinds of sausages. In parts of India and Middle East people use their fingers and
bread to pick up the food.
Exercise 2. Retell the text.
GRAMMAR COMMENT
Countable and uncountable nouns
Countable and uncountable nouns
Some nouns are countable. Some nouns are uncountable.
a book two books bread rice
an egg six eggs sugar water
Some nouns are both. Positive: There are some
flowers.
Do you like ice-cream? Negative: There aren’t any
cups.
We’d like three ice-creams, please. Question: Are there any
books?
a) Write a, an or some.
1. I read ..a… newspaper, wrote ..some.. letters and listened to ..some… music. 2. I
need …… money. I want to buy ……… food. 3. We met ………. interesting
people at the party. 4. I’m going to open the window to get ………. fresh air. 5.
She didn’t eat much for lunch – only ……. apple and …bread. 6. We live in ……..
big house. There’s ……..nice garden with ……..beautiful trees. 7. I’m going to
make ……table. First, I need …..wood. 8. We talked to her and she gave us
…..very good advice. 9. I want to write ….letter. I need ….pen and ….paper. 10.
We had ….nice weather when we were on holiday.
b) Write the questions and short answers.
1 eggs Are there any eggs? No, there aren’t
2 butter _____________________ ? _____________
3 mushrooms _____________________ ? _____________
4 beer _____________________ ? _____________
5 cheese _____________________ ? _____________
6 lettuce _____________________ ? _____________
7 carrots _____________________? _____________
PRONUNCIATION [P. 22]
How is ea pronounced in these words? Put them in the correct column.
bread breakfast eat health
ice cream
meat peas steak tea
Listen and check. Practice saying them. Which is the most common
pronunciation of ea
Exercise 3. Describe your partner a place you like to eat at. You should say:
Where is it?
What kind of food it serves?
Why do you like its food?
How often do you eat there?
Do you often have dinner there with your family or friends?
Exercise 4. Work in pairs. Make a food diary for yesterday. First write down
what you had to eat and drink.
Look at the pictures. Read the sentences. Which basket is it? Cross out 1, 2 or 3.
a There’s some ice cream 1 2 3
b There isn’t any fruit. 1 2 3
c There aren’t any 1 2 3
vegateables.
d There are some biscuits. 1 2 3
e There is a lettuce. 1 2 3
f There isn’t any 1 2 3
pineapple.
Exercise 5. Write a, an.
1 a …… book. 7 ……….. organization 13
…………. question
2 an… old book 8 ……….. restaurant 14
…….important question
3 …….. window 9 ……….. Chinese restaurant 15
……….. hamburger
4 ……… horse 10 ……. Indian restaurant 16
………. hour
5 …….. airport 11 ……….. accident 17 ………..
economic problem
6 ………university 12 ………bad accident 18
……….nice evening
Exercise 6. Complete the sentences and use some or any + one of these words:
air batteries chairs cheese friend languages milk
money photographs problems shampoo stamps
1.I can’t buy you a drink. I haven’t got any money. 2. I want to wash my hair. Is
there ………. ? 3. I’m going to the post office to get ………. 4. Can you speak ……
foreign ………… ? 5. I haven’t got my camera, so I can’t take …………. .6. Sorry,
we’re late. We had ……………… with the car. 7. Everybody was standing because
there weren’t ……………….. in the hall. 8. It’s hot in this office. I’m going out for
….. fresh ……… . 9. Why isn’t the radio working? Are there ………. in it? 10. Can I
have ……………. in my coffee, please? 11. Yesterday evening I went to a
restaurant with ……….. of mine. 12. ‘Would you like ………… ?’ ‘No, thank you.
I’ve had enough to eat’.
Exercise 7. Can you make spaghetti Bolognese? What do you need to make
it? Listen [T.22] to a TV cooking program. What nine things does Colin use
to make spaghetti Bolognese?
1 some spaghetti 6 some __________
2 an ________ 7 some __________
3 some ________ 8 some ___________
4 a ___________ 9 some __________
5 some ________
Exercise 8. Retell the listened text.
Check yourself
1. Choose the right variant: I 3. Choose the right variant: There is
bought …. book. a …….. of bread on the table.
a) some a) loaf
b) these b) part
c) a c) many
d) any d) much
2. Choose the right variant: I need 4. Choose the right variant: Is lunch
….. money. or dinner the … meal of the day?
a) a a) main
b) some b) ugly
c) any c) disorganized
d) many d) typically
Glossary
English Russian Kazakh
wine [waɪn] вино шарап
сarrot [’kærət] морковь сәбіз
tomato [tə’mətəʋ] помидор қызанақ
delicious [dɪ’lɪʃəs] вкусно дәмді
egg [eg] яйцо жұмыртқа
noodle [’nu:dəl] лапша кеспе
sausage [’sɔ:sɪdʒ] колбаса, сосиски шұжық
peas [piːz] горох бұршақ
steak [steɪk] стейк стейк
ice-cream [aɪs ˈkriːm] мороженое балмұздақ
