Countable and Non-countable Nouns - Free English Lesson

Countable and Non-countable Nouns - Free English Lesson

This can be a standard topic to instruct in ESL/EFL courses. Beginner teachers tend not to do a fantastic job from it and We've seen learners get mixed up or perplexed in Korea in addition to Kuwait. In reality, a teacher's job would be to classify in addition to explain a pair of lists connected with words...

COUNTABLES

oatmeal

cookies

apples



loaves

folks

cubes

cups

packets

packing containers

bags

ales

cartons

steaks/chops

pieces

spoons

containers

kg/km/g

NON-COUNTABLES

grain

sugar

sodium

sand

flour/powder/dust

jello

oil

h2o

juice

chopped vegies

stew

spaghetti

beef

milk

petrol

soup

butter

dirt

After educator reviews each lists with the class the particular students obtain the hang from it. Then question the the particular class to be able to classify what into organizations by circling these people in colored pen. They will need aid. Basically, non-countable nouns are incredibly small stuff like grains in addition to flour in addition to dust, and also liquids/fluids in addition to wet or maybe messy or maybe finely chopped foods. Countable nouns are usually big enough to get seen in addition to counted quickly and individually or points in containers like packets, packing containers, bags, ales or standard units such as kilograms. Remember that sugar in addition to ice is usually be cubed in addition to made countable.

Ask students to supply more types of nouns in addition to add them to the table.

The next thing is to be able to introduce the next English words which are generally used together with countables OR EVEN non-countables.

*Some grain (non-countable)

*A tea spoon or plate of grain (countable container)

*Some soup (general non-countable)

*A glass or pan of soup (more particular amount and in the countable container)

*A few apples, apples, steaks, folks etc. (countable)

*Many oranges/children (countable)

*Several mangos (general countable)

*A little bit of flour/sugar/oil/dust (non-countable)

Remember that we could say A lot of people and furthermore SOME airborne debris. This specific word, A NUMBER OF, is definitely not definite and works extremely well with both equally countables in addition to non-countables.

After introducing this susceptible to a rank 11 Kuwait course I imagined the learners had quite a good realizing. But then i gave homework asking students to make use of:

A few..., Some...., Somewhat..., A little bit...., Several..., Many.... each together with three types of food. Some learners made no mistakes while others botched it badly. It had been necessary to debate examples once more and show that these words ought to be used very carefully and from time to time exclusively in addition to countables/non-coutables.

Finally I told just a little canibalistic scam they loved. I said we can use the particular expressions "a bit and a little people" on condition that we slice them finely.

I hope somebody detects this helpful.