CHAPTER 11. COUNT/NONCOUNT NOUNS AND ARTICLES (10) FUNDAMENTAL OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR

 

FUNDAMENTAL OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR CHAPTER 11. COUNT/NONCOUNT NOUNS AND ARTICLES

 

EXERCISE 13. MANY vs. MUCH. Directions: Work in pairs. Speaker A: Using the cues, ask a question using how much or how many. You are looking for the answer to "x." Your book is open. Speaker B: Listen carefully for the correct use of much and many. Answer the question. If you don't know the answer, guess. Sometimes Speaker A is given the correct answer and can tell you how close you are to the correct answer. Your book is closed. Example: water: You drink x every day. SPEAKER A (book open): How much water do you drink every day? SPEAKER B (book closed): I try to drink at least six glasses of water every day.   Example: page: There are x in this chapter. (Answer: 32) SPEAKER A (book open): How many pages are there in this chapter? SPEAKER B (book closed): I don't know. I'd guess there are about thirty. SPEAKER A (book open): Very close! There are 32 pages in this chapter. 1 tea: You usually drink x every day. 2 word: There are x in the title of this book. (Answer 4) 3 money: A pencil costs x. 4 bone: There are x in the human body. (Answer 206) 5 tooth: The average person has x. (Answer 32) 6 mail: You got x yesterday. Switch roles 7 sugar: You put x in your tea. 8 language: You can speak x. 9 English: Had you studied x before you started attending this class? 10 people: There were x on earth 2,000 years ago. (Answer: around 250 million) 11 human being: There are x in the world today. (Answer: around six billion) 12 butterfly: You can see x in one hour on a summer day in a flower garden.

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