EF34 40 class- count/noncount nouns, First Nations

 

EF34

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 11:00.

We will end at 12:50 today.

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Deadline for replacement test tomorrow at 1

·      Countable and uncountable nouns

·      First Nations module

 

Wednesday

·      Adjective forms

·      Continue First Nations module

 

Thursday

·      First Nations

·      Replacement test -paragraph

 

Friday (final day)

·      Review

·      Marks day (one-on-one consultations, if you wish)

·      Unofficial final reports

 

 

 

Countable and uncountable nouns/ Count and non-count nouns

 

Countable nouns

REGULAR   cat (singular)   cats (plural)

IRREGULAR   person (sungular)   people (plural)

 

She had three cats in her house.

There are five person in my family. XXX wf #

There are five people in my family.

 

Uncountable nouns – don’t take an ‘s’

luck (n) – uncountable

She has lucks in her personal life. XXX

She has luck in her personal life.

She has a lot of luck in her personal life.

She hasn’t had a lot of luck in her personal life.

She hasn’t had muc

h luck in her personal life.

She has a little bit of luck in her personal life.

 

Exercise 1

1.    advice (uncountable)

She gave him good advices about his business. XXX

She gave him good advice about his business.

She gave him some good advice about his business.

She gave him a lot of good advice about his business.

She gave him a little bit of good advice about his business.

She gave him more good advice about his business.

 

pieces of advice (plural, ‘s’ on ‘pieces’, not on ‘advice’

She gave him good pieces of advice about his business.

She gave him a lot of good pieces of advice about his business.

She gave him a few good pieces of advice about his business.

She gave him good pieces of good advice about his business.

She gave him many pieces of advice about his business.

She gave him many pieces of marketing advice about his business.

 

 

16. cheese

Mei doesn’t not eat much cheese because it disagrees with her.

IDIOM food disagrees with you – upsets your stomach

Joe likes to have a little piece of cheese with his supper.

The kids ate ten pieces of cheese.

 

Write sentences with some on the uncountable nouns in Exercise 1.

20. rain

We had a lot of rain over the weekend.

Vancouver gets lots of rain from Novemebr to April.

 

27. homework

Jonas gets a lot of math homework every night.

 

32. English

Ling has learned a tremendous/huge amount of English in the past two years.

Junko speak only a little bit of English.

 

8. I hope that you get the job. n cl

hope(n)

I have a lot of hope for the future.

I have a lot of hope for the future even though there are lots of bad things going on in the world.

 

11. hate (v) I hate white chocolate.

hate(n) Sarah does not feel any hate for her ex-husband.

hate, hatred (n) Sarah does not feel any hatred for her ex-husband.

 

13. garbage

Every week, we throw out a lot of garbage.

We are trying to cut down on the amount of garbage that we produce.

 

Try some for homework. Email them to me. I can go over them with you tomorrow if you wish.

 

 

 

First Nations

 

Lecture notes for First Nations

 

·      Starting in May, 2021

·      Unmarked graves of First Nations children have been found on the grounds of old Residential Schools, 315 kids? in Kamloops

·      more and more unmarked graves discovered across Canada

·      over 4000 kids so far, probably hundreds and hundreds, thousands more across Canada

·      Residential Schools all across Canada

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools-in-canada-interactive-map

·      Organized by the Canadian government, run by the churches, paid for by the federal government

·      150 000 First Nations kids were forcibly taken away from their families to Residential Schools from 1860s to 1990s.