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Good and bad Valentine’s countable and uncountable speaking

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Students decide how much and how many of which things would make a great Valentine's Day, with nouns which are both countable and uncountable with different meanings and quantifiers with different kinds of nouns presentations.

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Good and bad Valentine’s countable and uncountable speaking

Lead-in speaking

What would be a perfect Valentine’s Day for you? What would be the worst?

Countable and uncountable grammar presentation

Which of the two options on each line below would be better on Valentine’s Day/ make more sense on Valentine’s Day?

  • lots of love/ lots of lovers
  • receiving lots of card/ receiving lots of cards
  • some chocolate/ some chocolates
  • a date/ some data
  • some flour/ some flowers
  • some jewellery/ some jewels
  • a romantic meal/ some romantic meal
  • some romance/ some romances
  • a surprise/ some surprise

Match words above to these meanings, and use that to check your answers above:

  • a bar of chocolate (or chocolate broken off from a bar)
  • a feeling of shock
  • boyfriends, girlfriends, etc
  • breakfast, lunch, or dinner
  • diamonds, rubies, etc
  • hard, thick paper, like thin cardboard
  • individual sweets, often with different fillings (strawberry, toffee, liqueur, etc)
  • meeting up with someone who you are interested in romantically, e.g. to go to the cinema together
  • necklaces, rings, etc
  • one or more romantic things
  • romantic relationships, e.g. three different girlfriends
  • something unexpected such as a gift that is shockingly expensive
  • statistics/ figures/ numbers
  • things sent at Xmas, for birthdays, etc, with greetings from the sender
  • white powder made from wheat that is used in baking

Check as a class.

Which words above are countable? Which are uncountable?

Which quantifiers in the left-hand column below could go with those countable nouns? Which can go with uncountable nouns? Which can go with both?

 

Good and bad Valentine’s countable and uncountable controlled speaking

Choose suitable quantifiers and nouns from the table below to describe the best or worst Valentine’s Day, and see if your partner agrees.

 

The best Valentine’s Day would include

 

The worst Valentine’s Day would include

no

a/ an

one

a couple of

a few

a little

not much

not many

some

a lot of

many

so much

so many

a huge number of

a huge amount of

alcohol/ champagne

argument/ fight/ row

balloon

bouquet

candle(lit meal)

candy

(anonymous) card

chocolate

compliment

confession

date

email/ (love) letter

ex

flashmob

flirting

flower

gift/ present

gold

in-law

jealousy

jewel/ diamond

jewellery

lie/ lying

lingerie

marriage/ wedding

matchmaker/ matchmaking

meal

(live/ harp) music(ian)

perfume

phone call

photo/ selfie

poem/ poetry

promise/ vow

proposal/ engagement

ring

romance

rom-com

rose

speech

stuffed animal/ teddy bear

sympathy/ commiseration

tattoo

tear/ crying

violinist

(-s)

(-es)

(-ies)

 

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