The body & quantities of food

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Unit 6: Take care

6.1 Our amazing bodies!

6.2 Countable/uncountable nouns

Quantifiers

What's the plan?

At the end of this lesson:

• You know (more) words for body parts 
• You can use those words to talk about body, injuries and keeping fit
• You can use quantifiers to talk about quantities of food
• You can talk about food and snacks

body parts

Body parts p. 70 & 71

Do: exercise 2 = scrabbled letters, which words?

Do: exercise 3= match pictures 1-9 with the words in the Vocabulary box

Read: the sentences of page 70. What do the highlighted words mean?

Do: exercise 5 = fill in the correct forms of the words.

Listen to audio 3.02 and repeat the words.

Body parts p. 70 & 71

2: mouth, teeth, leg, eye, nose, foot, head, ear, hair, back, hand.

3: shoulder, knee, elbow, eyebrow, ankle, toes, neck, finger.

4: maag, baard, huid, hart, spieren, hersenen, botten.

5: heart, hair, muscles, skin, knee/legs.

Listen to audio 3.02 and repeat the words.

Listen and answer questions

Page 71:

Listen to 3.03 and 3.04 and answer the questions of 

exercise 6, 7, 9 and 10 in your notebook.

Finished? Start with online assignments of 6.1. 

Listen and answer questions

6. Ellen: ballet, Owen: rugby

Ellen fell and hurt her back doing ballet.

Owen cut his finger on a can of cola.

7. her ankle, your leg, his finger.

9. Ellen trains harder (35 hours per week) Owen trains 10 h/w.

10. play, do, go, do, go, do, have, go.

Page 72: (un)countable nouns

Countable noun : 

- telbaar zelfstandig naamwoord - WEL meervoudsvorm

Uncountable noun :

- niet telbaar zelfstandig naamwoord - GEEN meervoudsvorm

Who is reading the text for What's in you lunch? Page 72.

Which (un)countable nouns can you find in the dialogue?

(un)countable nouns

Countable noun : 

- telbaar zelfstandig naamwoord  - WEL meervoudsvorm

banana, sandwiches

Uncountable noun :

- niet telbaar zelfstandig naamwoord - GEEN meervoudsvorm

salad, soup

Other examples?

Quantifiers

Hoeveel? some, a lot, 

too/not/how much/many:

•  much = non-countable nouns (+ enkelvoud)

water, money,  work, etc. 

• many = countable nouns (+ meervoud)

people, apples, children, etc. 

Practise with quantifiers

some & a lot of: countable & uncountable

When much/many?

Remember: some = positive sentences, 

any = questions and negative sentences!

Do exercise 5 to practise with this.

Finished? Start with online assignments of 6.2.

Practise with quantifiers

5)

She doesn't eat any chocolate bars.

She doesn't eat many/a lot of oranges.

Billy eats a lot of/too much chocolate. 

He doesn't eat much/a lot of fruit.

He doesn't eat any sandwiches.

Adam doesn't eat ... meat.

1. much
2. many

... salt is bad for you.

1. A lot of
2. Some
3. Too much

There's ... sugar in my tea - it's really sweet!

1. any
2. some
3. too much

Is there ... bread on the table?

1. any
2. many
3. much

Of course you're not hungry. You ate ...cakes!

1. how many
2. a lot of
3. too many

There aren't ... vegetarian things on the menu here.

1. any
2. many
3. some

What's the plan?

At the end of this lesson:

• You know (more) words for body parts 
• You can use those words to talk about body, injuries and keeping fit
• You can use quantifiers to talk about quantities of food
• You can talk about food and snacks