Countable and Uncountable- Your Week
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Students compare how much and how many in their recent lives, for personalised count and non-count nouns speaking practice.
Lesson Plan Content:
This week Countable and uncountable
Countable and uncountable nouns/ Present Perfect Simple
Try to find things you have done more of than your partner in the last seven days by giving information about yourself and/ or asking your partner questions.
Suggested topics
- Alcohol/ Drinking
- Breaks
- Commuting/ Travel/ Hours on trains
- (Cups of) tea/ (Cups of) coffee
- Eating out/ Fast food/ Junk food
- Emails/ Emailing
- Exercise/ Walking
- Food/ Meals
- Housework
- Listening to music/ Listening to the radio
- Meeting people from overseas
- (Business) meetings
- Reading
- Shopping/ Purchases
- Sleep
- Smoking/ Cigarettes
- Snacks
- Spending money
- Spending time with your family
- Studying
- Studying English/ Homework
- Surfing the web
- Teleconferences/ Videoconferences
- Telephoning
- Using English
- Watching TV/ Watching DVDs/ Watching movies
- Work/ Hours at work/ Jobs/ Projects
Useful language for talking about how many/ how muchA huge amount/ A huge number A lot Quite a lot Not much Little/ Few Very little/ Very few Hardly any No…/ None |
Share one thing that was higher for you than your partner and see if anyone else in the class is higher than you.
Ask about anything above you don’t understand, are not sure that you used correctly, etc, working together to make suitable questions and answers each time.
Without looking at the last page, put “-s” after any of the nouns below which can take it.
- Alcohol/ Drinking
- Break
- Commuting/ Travel/ Hour on train
- (Cup of) tea/ (Cup of) coffee
- Eating out/ Fast food/ Junk food
- Email/ Emailing
- Exercise/ Walking
- Food/ Meal
- Housework
- Listening to music/ Listening to the radio
- Meeting people (from overseas)
- (Business) meeting
- Reading
- Shopping/ Purchase
- Sleep
- Smoking/ Cigarette
- Snack
- Spending money
- Spending time with your family
- Studying
- Studying English/ Homework
- Surfing the web
- Teleconference/ Videoconference
- Telephoning
- Using English
- Watching TV/ Watching DVD/ Watching movie
- Work/ Hour at work/ Job/ Project
Check your answers with the last page. Other answers might be possible.
What would these things mean?
I have done some exercises.
I have watched many TVs.
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