EXERCISE 13. MANY vs. MUCH. (Charts 11-1 + 11-5)
Directions: Work in pairs.
Speaker A: Using the cues, ask a question using how much or how many. You are
looking for the answer to "x." Your book is open.
Speaker B: Listen carefully for the correct use of much and many. Answer the question.
If you don't know the answer, guess. Sometimes Speaker A is given the
correct answer and can tell you how close you are to the correct answer. Your
book is closed.
Example: water: You drink x every day.
SP-R A (book open): How much water do you drink every day?
SPEAKER B (book closed): I try to drink at least six glasses of water every day.
Example: page: There are x in this chapter. (Answer: 32)
SPEAKER A (book open): How many pages are there in this chapter?
SPEAKER B (book closed): I don't know. I'd guess there are about thirty.
SPEAKER A (book open): Very close! There are 32 pages in this chapter.
- tea:
- word:
- money:
- bone:
- tooth:
- mail:
Switch roles.
- sugar:
- language:
- English:
- people:
1 1. human being:
- butterfly:
You usually drink x every day.
There are x in the title of this book. (Answer 4)
A pencil costs x.
There are x in the human body. (Answer 206)
The average person has x. (Answec 32)
You got x yesterday.
You put x in your tea.
You can speak x.
Had you studied x before you started attending this class?
There were x on earth 2,000 years ago. (Answer: around 250 million)
There are x in the world today. (Answer: around six billion)
You can see x in one hour on a summer day in a flower garden.
EXERCISE 14. A FEW vs. A LIlTLE. (Charts 11-1 + 11-5)
Directions: Complete the sentences by using a few or a little and the given noun. Use the
plural form of the noun when necessary.
REMINDER: Use a few with a count noun: afew songs.
Use a little with a noncount noun: a little music.
1. music I feel like listening to a little mwic tonight.
- song We sang ol few s 6 h9s at the party.
- help Do you need with that?
- pepper My grandfather doesn't use extra salt, but he always puts
on his hard-boiled egg
- thing I need to pick up at the market on my
way home from work tonight.
