Your words
Outdoors
Unit 5
87
5B
Talking about quantity
Concrete number
a dozen
eggs
people
a hundred
Unspecified number
dozens of
hundreds of
Unspecified quantity
(uncountable)
a bit of
time
a piece of
cheese
Several persons or
things (countable)
a number of tasks
students
5
Complete the sentences in your
notebook. Use the tables to help you.
1
I’ve got
?
free time. Shall we play a
video game?
2
We have to buy two
?
eggs for Easter.
3
?
of students in our school are
unhappy with the test results.
6
Match the quantities with the
nouns. Then write sentences in your
notebook.
There’s a bit of cheese in the fridge so I
can make a cheese sandwich for lunch.
7
Work in pairs. Act out dialogues
with the phrases in Exercise 6.
A
I’d like to have that piece of cheese,
please.
B
Here you are.
A
Thank you.
a bit of
a piece of
a dozen
Word chunks
Tyler
Hi, what are you doing
tomorrow?
Isabel
Well, I don’t know. I think
we’re going shopping.
Tyler
Right. Do you like
shopping on Saturday?
Isabel
Yeah, I mean, it’s OK.
And I sometimes buy
a game or a DVD. And
then we often go to the
cinema.
Tyler
Oh, which one?
Isabel
You know, the big multiplex in the
shopping centre. You can have a
hamburger there, too.
and then
in the
you can
do you
to the
And I
you know
I don’t
I think
I mean
Some groups of words (chunks) are very common
in English. And they’re very easy words!
8
Underline the word chunks in the
conversation.
9
Complete the sentences with one of these
phrases.
1
buy some music CD’s from this
website?
2
On Friday I usually go
?
school orchestra
practice.
3 A
?
like scary horror films?
B
Yes, I do.
4
I’ve got a new computer.
?
, it’s not really
new. It was my dad’s.
5
Yesterday morning we went for a walk.
?
we had a roast dinner in the evening.
6 A
What’s the capital of Spain?
B
?
it’s Madrid.
I think
do you
to the
I mean
I may
and then
May I
T-shirts
cheese
notebooks
milk
pens
colour pencils
flour
chocolate
meat