Title TK524_ENGLISH_4_LESSON NOTE ✅

TK524_ENGLISH Page 2 of 12 LESSON NOTE 7. Traveling allows you to experience rich ______________ and traditions of different countries. Answer: I. ARTICLES • We use A/AN when we talk about something that we don’t know which one, or it isn’t important which one. a/an • We use A/AN when we talk about something for the first time. • We also use A/AN when we are talking about someone’s job and when we mean “one”. • We use THE when we talk about something that both the speaker and listener know which one. Articles the • We use THE when we talk about something for the second time. • We use THE when we talk about ordinal numbers in dates, musical instruments, names of rivers, seas, mountain ranges, deserts, and a few countries. • We do not use articles with plural countable and uncountable nouns when we’re talking in general. no articles • We do not use articles with colors, sports, activities, meals, names of people, cities, most countries, streets, languages, and subjects. 1._________________________ 5. _________________________ 2. _________________________ 6. _________________________ 3. _________________________ 7. _________________________ 4. _________________________ GRAMMAR REVIEW
TK524_ENGLISH Page 3 of 12 LESSON NOTE Exercise 1: Fill in the blanks with a, an, the, or x (for no article). 1. Are you going to ____________ beach this afternoon? 2. ____________ elephants are very big animals. 3. My mum has ____________ headache. 4. He came home ____________ hour ago. 5. My cousin is from ____________ New York. II. COUNTABLE NOUNS VS. UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS NOTES: • We use some and any with uncountable nouns and plural nouns. • We normally use some in affirmative sentences, and any in negative sentences and questions. Exercise 2: Read each sentence carefully and decide if the underlined noun is countable or uncountable. Write "C" for countable or "U" for uncountable in the blank. 1. There are many books on the shelf. (___) 2. Can you give me some information about the project? (___) 3. She bought three apples at the market. (___) 4. I need some advice on how to handle this situation. (___) 5. There is a lot of traffic on the road today. (___) 6. He ate two sandwiches for lunch. (___) 7. She enjoys listening to classical music. (___) 8. The recipe calls for two cups of flour. (___) Nouns Countable nouns things we can count → have singular and plural forms Uncountable nouns things we cannot count → don't have plural forms
TK524_ENGLISH Page 4 of 12 LESSON NOTE 9. They found several coins under the couch. (___) 10.We should reduce the amount of pollution in our cities. (___) III.QUANTIFIERS COUNTABLE NOUNS UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS many a few a couple of, a pair of much a little a bottle of, a kilo of no some (not) any a lot of / lots of / plenty of NOTES: When we use many, a few, a couple/pair of, a lot of/lots of/plenty of with countable nouns, the nouns and verbs followed are always plural. Exercise 3: Fill in the blanks with much/many/a lot of/few/little/some/any. Each quantifier can be used more than once. 1. There isn't ____________ sugar left in the jar. 2. She has ____________ friends in the city, so she often feels lonely. 3. We saw ____________ interesting places during our trip. 4. How ____________ money do you need for the project? 5. There are only a ____________ cookies left in the jar. 6. Do you have ____________ idea how to solve this problem? 7. They spent ____________ time discussing the new plan. 8. I have ____________ books on this topic, but I need more. 9. There is ____________ water in the glass. 10.We don't have ____________ bananas at home.