دخول التلميذدخولسجّل مجانًا
🍎 Unit 2 · Keeping FitLesson 10 / 356 exercises

How to Stay Fit

What do you eat in one day? How many eggs? How much water? Today we plan a healthy menu and find fun ways to move our body.

Know the lesson? Go straight to the exercises
Revise:📝 One-page summaryGlossary

كيف تحافظ على لياقتك · Programme: Describing a healthy menu · Grammar: How many…? / How much…?; countable and uncountable nouns

By the end of this lesson, I can:

  • I can name activities to stay fit.
  • I can sort food: countable and uncountable.
  • I can ask How many…? and How much…?
  • I can say plural endings: /s/, /z/, /ɪz/.

🖼️ Picture dictionary قاموس مصوّر

tap 🔊 to listen
🫒oil زيتWe cook with a little olive oil.
🍬sweets حلوياتHow many sweets do you eat in a week?
🥚egg بيضةI eat one egg for breakfast.
🥩meat لحمWe eat meat two times a week.
🍝pasta معكرونةGrandma makes pasta with tomato sauce.
🥣yoghurt ياغورت / رائبI eat a yoghurt after lunch.
🍚rice أرزHow much rice do you want?
🥗salad سلطةA Tunisian salad has tomatoes and cucumbers.
🍌bananas موزHow many bananas are there?
📋menu قائمة الطعامOur school menu is healthy.
🏊swim يسبحI swim in the summer to stay fit.
🤸jump يقفزWe jump rope in the playground.
🚶walk يمشيI walk thirty minutes every day.

📚 كلمات الدرس

13 كلمة من هذا الدرس في القاموس المدرسي: المعنى بالعربية والفرنسية، والنطق، ومثال.

كلّ كلمات الوحدة 2 في القاموس ←

📖 Read: Grandma Fatma’s healthy menu أقرأ

Every Sunday, Ines and her brother Omar visit Grandma Fatma in Kairouan. Grandma is seventy, but she is very fit: she walks to the market every morning!

👵
GrandmaToday, we are making a healthy menu together. For lunch: salad, fish and rice, and a yoghurt.
👧
InesHow much rice do we need?
👵
GrandmaTwo cups of rice and a little oil. Not too much oil!
👦
OmarHow many tomatoes are there for the salad?
👵
GrandmaThere are four tomatoes and two cucumbers. And for dinner: pasta with vegetables and one egg each. We eat meat only two times a week.
👦
OmarAnd sweets, Grandma?
👵
GrandmaOnly on Fridays, and only a few! Now let’s go out. We can walk in the garden and you can jump rope.

Ines writes the menu on a big paper and puts it on the fridge.

Do you understand? أفهم

Answer in your copybook first, then check.

  1. Where does Grandma Fatma live?
    Answer

    She lives in Kairouan.

  2. Why is Grandma fit?
    Answer

    Because she walks to the market every morning.

  3. How much rice do they need?
    Answer

    Two cups of rice.

  4. How many tomatoes are there?
    Answer

    There are four tomatoes.

  5. When can the children eat sweets?
    Answer

    Only on Fridays, and only a few.

🧩 Grammar القواعد

Countable nouns can be counted: one egg, two eggs, three bananas. Ask with How many + plural noun? How many eggs do you eat?

Uncountable nouns can’t be counted: water, oil, rice, milk, pasta, meat. No -s, no a / an. Ask with How much + noun? How much water do you drink?

To count them, use a container: a glass of water, a cup of rice, a bottle of oil.

الأسماء المعدودة تقبل الجمع ونسأل عنها بـ How many، والأسماء غير المعدودة (ماء، زيت، أرز) لا تُجمع ونسأل عنها بـ How much.

Countable or uncountable?

Countable 🔢 (How many?)Uncountable 💧 (How much?)
an egg, two eggs 🥚water 💧
a banana, three bananas 🍌milk 🥛
a tomato, four tomatoes 🍅oil 🫒
a sweet, five sweets 🍬rice 🍚
a yoghurt, two yoghurts 🥣pasta, meat, bread 🍝

Look and say: how to stay fit

👀 Look and say

🚶 walk · 🏊 swim · 🚴 ride a bike · 🤸 jump rope · ⚽ play football · 💃 dance

I walk to school. My brother swims on Saturdays.

💡 Containers

a glass of 🥛 milk · a cup of 🍚 rice · a bottle of 🫒 oil · a bowl of 🥗 salad · a piece of 🍞 bread

A healthy day in numbers

Every day, children need…How many / how much?
water 💧6 to 8 glasses
fruits and vegetables 🍎🥕5 portions or more
sport and play 🏃about 60 minutes
sleep 😴9 to 11 hours

💬 Useful expressions عبارات مفيدة

Asking about quantity

How many eggs do you eat? How much water do you drink? How many bananas are there? How much oil do we need?

Describing a healthy menu

For breakfast, I have milk, bread and an egg. For lunch, I have salad, fish and rice. For dinner, I have pasta and a yoghurt. I walk and swim to stay fit.

🔊 Pronunciation النطق

plural /s/
grapescarrotscakescupsbiscuits
plural /z/
eggsbananasapplestomatoesmeals
plural /ɪz/
orangessandwichesglassespeachesboxes

Worked examples أمثلة محلولة

Try first, then read the solution.

Example 1How many or how much?

Ask about water.

Step-by-step solution
  1. Can you count water? No ➡️ uncountable.
  2. Use How much.

✓ How much water do you drink?

Example 2How many or how much?

Ask about egg.

Step-by-step solution
  1. One egg, two eggs ➡️ countable.
  2. Use How many + plural.

✓ How many eggs do you eat?

Example 3Plural sound

Sort: cakes, eggs, oranges.

Step-by-step solution
  1. cake ends in /k/ ➡️ /s/.
  2. egg ends in /g/ ➡️ /z/.
  3. orange ends in /dʒ/ ➡️ /ɪz/.

✓ cakes /s/ · eggs /z/ · oranges /ɪz/

⚠️ Common mistakes أخطاء شائعة

❌ *How many water…?*✅ How much water…? — water is uncountable.
❌ *How much egg…?*✅ How many eggs…? — egg is countable: use the plural.
❌ *two rices, some oils*✅ two cups of rice, some oil — uncountable nouns have no -s.
❌ *a pasta*✅ some pasta / a plate of pasta — no a with uncountable nouns.

⭐ Remember أحفظ

  • To stay fit: walk, swim, ride a bike, jump, dance, play sport.
  • Countable: one egg, two eggs. Ask: How many eggs?
  • Uncountable: water, oil, rice, milk, pasta, meat. Ask: How much water?
  • Use containers: a glass of milk, a cup of rice.
  • Plural sounds: cakes /s/, eggs /z/, oranges /ɪz/.

Quick quiz اختبار سريع

4 questions · instant feedback

1. How … water do you drink?

2. How … bananas are there?

3. Which noun is uncountable?

4. In the text, how many times a week do they eat meat?

✍️ Write: My healthy menu أكتب

Write your healthy menu for one day (60–80 words). Say what you eat and drink, and one activity to stay fit.

Steps
  1. For breakfast, I have…
  2. For lunch, I have…
  3. For a snack, I have…
  4. For dinner, I have…
  5. I drink… glasses of water.
  6. To stay fit, I…
0 wordsYour text is saved automatically in this browser.
A model text to compare with (after writing mine)

My healthy menu

For breakfast, I have a glass of milk, some bread with olive oil and an egg. For lunch, I have a Tunisian salad, fish and rice. For a snack, I have two bananas or a yoghurt. For dinner, I have pasta with vegetables. I drink six glasses of water every day. I eat sweets only on Fridays. To stay fit, I walk to school and I swim on Saturdays.

One good example among many: compare, don’t copy.

😊 The lighter side استراحة

💡
Proverb

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

🧩
Riddle

You break me before you can use me. What am I?

Answer

An egg.

😄
Joke of the day

How many apples grow on a tree? — All of them!

✅ Exercises تمارين

All exercises →

6 exercises on three levels, with new questions every time.

Level 1Warm-up
Level 2Practice
Level 3Challenge
Printable series (PDF)

Practise: How to Stay Fit

True or false, complete, choose, classify and situations: instant correction with explanations.

Start the exercises

Got the lesson? Try it yourself

6 exercises · instant correction · new questions every time

Start the exercises
← How Are You Feeling?The Four Seasons →

Pictures: Twemoji (CC-BY 4.0). Texts, explanations and exercises: Scolaire.tn.

Lesson 10 · 6 exercisesPractise now