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Unit 3. At the school canteen
Talking about food preferences
I like rice. I love pasta and cheese. I don’t like chocolate.
She likes fruit. He loves cauliflawer. He doesn’t like cheese.
We like watermelon. They love broccoli. They don’t like corn
Do you like lemons? Do you like rice?
Yes, I do. No, I don’t.
Does he like apples? Does she like pasta?
Yes, he does. No, she doesn’t.
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Quantifying Food
Some food can’t be counted. We call these words uncountable. The
ones we can count are called countable.
COUNTABLE NOUNS UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
We add -s to make its plural form. Uncountable nouns haven’t got a plural
form. They’ve only got a singular form.
When a countable noun is singular, we
have to use a/an, one, the before it. We can use them alone or add the
word some or any (interrogative and
negative sentences only).
Example: If we want to quantify them, we add the
name of a container or mass/portion.
Example:
a lemon - two lemons
some broccoli
a carrot - three carrots
some cauliflower
a loaf of bread
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UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
a plate of pasta
a bowl of rice
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Present simple
Present simple
Read these sentences to learn to use and form the Present Simple.
I have lunch at two o’clock.
She eats a morning snack at school.
I don’t have dinner at home on Sundays.
He doesn’t eat fruit for dinner.
Do you eat an afternoon snack? No, I don’t.
Does she eat cake for breakfast? Yes, she does.
These sentences use the Present Simple. This tense is used for:
• Habitual actions: My mum has breakfast at eight o’clock every day.
• Feelings and emotions: I like fruit and vegetables.
• Permanent states: Cows eat grass.
• With verbs of senses: She smells the fruit.
To form the Present Simple, we follow these rules:
Affirmative Negative Interrogative
Subject (I/you/we/they) Subject (I/you/we/they) Do + subject (I/you/we/they)
+ verb + ... + don’t + verb + ... + verb + ...
Example: Example: Example:
They eat vegetables every We don’t like broccoli. Do you like chicken?
day.
Subject (he/she/it) + verb Subject (he/she/it) Does + subject (he/she/it)
ending in –s. + doesn’t + verb + ... + verb + ...
Example: Example: Example:
She likes fruit and He doesn’t eat a morning Does she eat an afternoon
chocolate. snack on Saturdays. snack on Mondays?
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Adverbs of frequency
To talk about routines, we use frequency adverbs.
Always / Eevery day
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Never
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Present simple
Do you remember in lesson 2, we talked about countable and
uncountable nouns?
We’re now going to learn a few words to quantify uncountable food names.
In general, with uncountable nouns, we can always use some or any in negative
sentences, but these words have meaning, they don’t say a quantity. We need to use
another word to express amount.
Here are some examples of words we use to express quantity:
a bag a box
a cup a carton
a jar a dozen
a bottle a glass
a bar a slice
a can
