Unit 2: Keeping Fit
Summary: How to Stay Fit
Key points
- To stay fit, we walk, swim, ride a bike, jump, dance and play sport.
- A healthy menu has fruit, vegetables, rice or pasta, fish, eggs or meat, a yoghurt and water.
- Countable nouns have a plural: one egg, two eggs. Ask How many…?
- Uncountable nouns have no plural: water, oil, rice, milk, pasta, meat. Ask How much…?
- Plural endings sound /s/ (cakes), /z/ (eggs) or /ɪz/ (oranges).
Rules to remember
How many
How many + plural noun: How many eggs do you eat?
How much
How much + uncountable noun: How much water do you drink?
Containers
a glass of milk, a cup of rice, a bottle of oil, a piece of bread
How to do it
- Can you count it (one, two, three)?
- Yes ➡️ How many + plural.
- No ➡️ How much + noun with no -s.
Example
How much oil do we need? — A little. How many tomatoes are there? — Four.
Common mistakes
- *How many water?* ➡️ How much water?
- *How much eggs?* ➡️ How many eggs?
- *two rices* ➡️ two cups of rice
Key words
Summary written by سكولار for quick revision: it does not replace the lesson and its exercises.