piece
a piece of
glass
plate
salt
cup
kilo
carton
bottle
n. 块(片,张,件)一块(片,张,件)n. 玻璃杯;玻璃n. 盘子n. 盐n. 茶杯,杯n. 千克,公斤n. 盒n. 瓶子
Objectives
To learn countable and uncountable nounsTo learn to form the plural forms of the countable nounsTo learn to use the quantifier to modify the uncountable nounsTo learn the new words: piece, glass, salt, cup, kilo, bottle
What’s this?
It’s an apple.
What are they?
They are three apples.
What is the difference between apple and apples?
What’s this?
It’s a pear.
What are they?
They are three pears.
What is the difference between pear and pears?
What does a countable noun refer to?
How to use “a” / “an”?
How to form the plural forms of countable nouns?
可数名词的单数,我们可以用 ‘ a’ 或
‘an’ 来修饰,当一个可数名词是以元音因素开头的话用‘ an’ 。例如 : a cake, an egg, an orange 。 可数名词的复数形式变化如下:
① 一般在名词词尾加 -s 。如: cakes, pens;
② 以 s, x, ch, sh 结尾的名词的词尾加 -es。
如: watches, wishes, boxes …③ 以辅音字母 +y 结尾的名词改 y 为 i 再 加 -es 。如: stories, cities …④ 以 f 或 fe 结尾的名词改 f 或 fe 为 v 再
加 -es 。 如: shelves, knives …⑤ 以 o 结尾且表人或农作物等有生命事
物的词在词尾加 -es 。如: tomatoes, potatoes…
有些名词的复数变化是不规则的。child---children woman---women
man---men foot---feet
tooth---teeth goose---geese
Chinese---Chinese sheep---sheep
What does an uncountable noun refer to?
How to show the amounts of uncountable nouns?
a … of + UC
(uncountable noun)
一般无法用数量来计算的名词为不可数名词。不可数名词前面不能用表示具体数量的数词或不定冠词 a, an, 可用一些量词 ,
如: a packet of, two bags of, four kilos of, three cups of 等。
Try to find out if the following words are countable nouns or uncountable nouns.
Countable nouns Uncountable nouns
boy, family, tomato, class, picture, bus, hamburger, cake, vegetable, apple
bread, tea, rice, juice, water, meat, beef, chicken
boy, bread, tea, rice, family, tomato, picture, juice, class, bus, water, hamburger, meat, beef, cake, vegetable, chicken, apple
用“ a” 或 “ an” 填空
_____book egg hamburger
tomato hour carrot
English teacher old man
a a
a a
anan
an
an
Complete Millie and her mother’s
conversation. (P 74)
Millie: Mum, what do we need to buy?
Mum: We need some ________, a
____ of ______ and a _______ of
_____.
Millie: Do we need to buy _________?
chicken
bag rice packet
salt
vegetables
Mum: Yes. Let’s buy some ________ and __________.Millie: I want to buy some __________. They’re Grandpa’s favourite. And we have only an ________ at home. We need to buy some too.Mum: OK. We can also buy a few ________ of _________.
carrotspotatoes
oranges
apple
bottles juice
Countable nouns
(singular)
Countable nouns
(plural)
Uncountable nouns
bag, packet, apple
vegetables, carrots, potatoes, oranges, bottles
chicken, rice, salt, juice
Practice Look at the picture and talk about the food. Pay attention to the countable nouns and uncountable nouns.
大多数名词 + s book→books, map→maps
以 -s, -x, -ch, -sh 结尾的名词
+ es bus→buses, brush→brushes
以“辅音字母+y” 结尾的名词
变 -y为 -ies
baby→babies, factory→factories
以 -f 或 -fe 结尾的名词
去掉 -f 或-fe 再加 -ves
shelf→shelves, knife→knives
某些以 o 结尾且表人或农作物等有生命事物的词
+ es mango→mangoes, tomato→tomatoes
不规则变化 fish→fish, man→men,
1. My dog loves eating ______ (meat).2. Tom usually eats two _____________ (hamburger) for lunch.3. We don’t have any ______ (sugar) at home.4. Good morning! I’d like two _______ (glass) of soy bean milk.5. Snow White has many beautiful _______ (dress).
I. 根据提示填空。meathamburgers
sugar
glasses
dresses
6. I would like to take a lot of _______ (photo) in the zoo.7. There are four pencils, two ______ (knife) and one eraser in the pencil box.8. Would you like to have some tomato ______ (soup)?9. Does Mr White often play with his two _________ (child)?10. _________ (library) are good places to go at the weekend.
photos
knives
soup
childrenLibraries
II. 阅读下面的短文,填入 a, an, the 或 / 。
Li Fei is my cousin. He is (1) ___ boy. We
are in (2) ____ same class. Li Fei has
(3) ___ good lifestyle. He eats (4) ___ egg
and drinks milk every morning. And he
eats (5) ____ apple each day. (6) ____
Fish/fish is his favourite food. Li Fei likes
a
a
the
an
an
/
playing sports, too. He is (7) ___ member
of the school swimming team. And he
sometimes plays (8) ___ football with us.
Li Fei has (9) ____ idea. He wants to be
(10) ____ swimmer like Sun Yang.
Maybe we will see him on TV one day.
a
/
a
an
III. 根据要求完成下列句子。每空一词。
1. There is a newspaper ( 报纸 ) on the table. ( 改为复数句 ) There ____ some __________ on the table.2. Let’s buy three packets of salt. ( 对划线部分提问 ) _____ _____ ______ of salt shall we buy?
are
How many packets
newspapers
3. How many kilos are the pears?
( 回答问题 )
_____ _____ three _____.
4. 杨帆每天早上都要喝一杯茶。 ( 翻译句子 )
Yang Fan drinks ___ ____ ___ ____
every morning.
5. 我想要五瓶可乐。 ( 翻译句子 )
I’d like ____ ______ ___ _____.
They are
a cup of tea
kilos
five bottles of cola
IV. Write the plural form of these countable nouns.
1. boy _________ 2. story ________
3. watch ________ 4. wish _________
5. fox __________ 6. radio _________
7. tomato _______ 8. knife _________
9. shelf _________ 10. foot _________
11. woman ________ 12. child ________
13. tooth _______ 14. sheep _______
boys stories
watches wishes
foxes radios
tomatoes knives
shelves
childrenwomen
feet
teeth sheep
V: 根据句子意思,用括号中所给词的正确形式填空。
1. There are so many _______ (sheep) on the hill.
2. He likes eating ________ (tomato) with eggs.
3. ________ (knife) are usually used to cut things.
4. The twins want to be _________ (dance) when they grow up.
sheep
tomatoes
Knives
dancers
5. We should have a lot of __________ ( 蔬菜 ) for three meals every day.6. ______ ( 糖果 ) are bad for your teeth.7. There are some ________ ( 胡萝卜 ) on the table.8. He spends two _______ ( 小时 ) on his homework every day.9. We have three ______ ( 餐,饭 ) each day.
vegetables
Sweetscarrots
hours
meals