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What’s in the fridge?
Textbook: p. 18
GoalKnow food words; use a/an and some with countable and uncountable nouns.
New words
butter · sariyog‘cheese · pishloqsausage · kolbasashelf · tokcha, javon
Explanation
English nouns are countable (egg, apple, banana, sausage) or uncountable (milk, butter, cheese, sugar, salt, oil, meat). A singular countable noun takes a/an: “There is an egg. There is a sausage.” In statements, some is used with uncountable nouns and with plural countable nouns: “There is some butter. There are some eggs.” Uncountable nouns have no a/an and no plural: “some milk”, not “milks”. For place: on the first shelf. The plural of shelf is shelves (f → ves).
Worked examples
“Our fridge”. On the top shelf of our fridge there is some cheese and some butter. On the second shelf there are two eggs and a sausage. There is some milk in the door. There isn’t any meat today, because Dad is going to the market.
— There is some sugar on the first shelf. — False. There is some sugar in the cupboard. There is an apple on the first shelf.
Class activity
“True or False”: a pupil says a sentence about a fridge picture (“There is some meat on the second shelf.”); the partner answers “True” or “False”.
Practice
1
Which noun is uncountable: egg, butter, apple?
butter
2
a, an or some: ___ egg; ___ cheese; ___ sausages
an, some, some
3
Make a sentence: meat – second shelf.
There is some meat on the second shelf.
4
Why do we say “some milk” and not “a milk”?
Milk is uncountable; a/an is only for singular countable nouns.