[williejean]

Hi everyone

I am teaching a segment on countable and uncountable nouns, I need some more ideas, especially for uncountable nouns. My theme is food, I have already used for uncountable:

sugar
water
coffee
juice
milk

Can someone give me more ideas on uncountable nouns (food)

Thanks

[clivehawkins]

tea, cake, bread, rice, pasta, pizza, toast, cereal, butter, coke, wine, beer.

[williejean]

Thank you

[susan53]

Keep in mind that a lot of food nouns can be either countable and uncountable depending on meaning. You don't say who you're teaching. If kids, your main problem will be ice-cream /an ice-cream, cake/ a cake, pizza / a pizza and chocolate / a chocolate. But if you're working with older students think too about coffee / 2 coffees, cheese / different cheeses etc. You may not want to introduce the difference in the lesson, but you need to be ready for it if it comes up.

[clivehawkins]

you may also wish to introduce the idea of making umcountable nouns countable by using a slice \ piece \ bowl \ cup \ can of etc

For example I'd like some pizza
I'd like a slice of pizza