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Amounts and Containers Flashcards
Quite often when we talk about foods, we talk about specific amounts of foods. This is also helps turn uncountable nouns into countable nouns by quantifying them. This set of flashcards covers the different ways that we quantify foods.These cards also cover about forty different food items.
Some terms covered are:
cup of tea
bottle of ketchup
plate of cookies
handful of peanuts
spoonful of medicine
jar of jam
bucket of chicken
pot of coffee
bowl of soup
You can use the game Fish or memory to practice this game. Fish goes likes this:
A: Do you have a cup of tea?
B: Yes, I do.
(Or No, I don't. Go fish. A takes a card from the deck)
If the answer was yes, B gives the card to A and A gets a point.
As well these two worksheets review much of the vocabulary covered in these cards:
Here is a selection of worksheets available for teaching about animals:
Insects | Animal Behaviour | Food Chains and Webs | Reptiles | Describing Animals
All materials (c) 2004 L anternfish ESL