UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL FRANCISCO JOSE DE CALDAS

LEARNING GUIDE
COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
ANDREA DEL PILAR MARANTA B.
ENGLISH TEACHER

Student’s Name: _______________________________________ Code: _______________

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlkcFyeFsto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQIuZ6YJ760
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9HeF0ecEo

Exercises to practice

 Rewrite these sentences correctly.

0 There isn’t any potatoes.

_There aren’t any potatoes.
1 I have get a new car.
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2 Can I have bananas?
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3 There isn’t many milk left.
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4 I want a lot friends to come to my party.
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5 There aren’t some carrots in the fridge.
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6 Can I buy a medicine?
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7 He haven’t got much time.
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8 Strawberries have any vitamins but not a lot.
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 Complete the sentences with much, many, lot, some or any.

0 Have you got _any_ ice-cream?

1 We haven’t got __________ onions but we have got __________ garlic.
2 David has a __________ of money. He’s very rich.
3 There isn’t __________ time before the plane leaves. We’ve got just fifteen minutes.
4 A ________ of people live in the town centre (about 15,000) but not __________ people live by the sea.
5 I’m sorry, I don’t have __________ news about the exam results.
6 There aren’t __________ tickets for the concert. Just one or two tickets are left.

 Write the words in the box under the correct heading.

pasta tomato ice-cream crisp biscuit oil chocolate rice carrot

Countable Uncountable Countable and

uncountable
__________ __________ _tomato_
__________ __________ __________
__________ __________ __________

 Look at the picture and complete with a / an, the, some or any.

1-There is ________ milk in the fridge.

2- There are ________eggs.
3- There is _________ tomato and _______ tomato is next to the carrots.
4- There aren´t ________ potatoes.
5- There is _______ pineapple.
6-- There is _________orange juice.
7-- There are _________ pears.
8-- There is __________ butter.
9-- There is _________ cheese.
10-- There are _________ carrots, _______ carrots are orange.
11- There isn´t _______ ice-cream.
12- There isn´t ________ water.

 Write the words in the correct order

1- people / there / in / are/ the / three / kitchen

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2- is / table / there / some / the / on / chocolate
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3- got / any / biscuits/ he / has ?
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4- not / any / we / got / pencils / have
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 What is Garfield going to get from the fridge? Classify in COUNTABLES and UNCOUNTABLES

Butter
Tomato COUNTABLES UNCOUNTABLES
Juice
Pineapple
Rice
Mushroom
Strawberry
Meat
Biscuit
Lemon
Fish
Wine

Extra links to practice:

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/countable_uncountable.htm
https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-countable-uncountable-nouns.php
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/confusing_words/much_many3.htm
https://www.eslgamesplus.com/countable-uncountable-a-an-rally/