LESSON PLAN: much / many FOCUS: much/many/a lot of/ fruit

TIME:60 minutes LEVEL:Pre-intermediate

MAIN OBJECTIVES MATERIALS NEEDED

Students will learn vocabulary to talk about amounts and quantities (much, many, a lot) and food. Correct the sentence worksheet, Find Someone Who worksheet, Fruit Wordsearch worksheet, Gap fill worksheet, Flashcards. (These are all downloadable from the site.) A bag of rice, 3 apples and a bottle of water.

LANGUAGE WARM-UP ACTIVITY 10 minutes

How much / many?, There is / isnt much/many, There is/isnt a lot of and fruit vocabulary. Ask students to tell you the alphabet (A-Z). Then ask for a kind of food or drink beginning with A. Let individual students shout out answers. Write them on the board. Do the same with B. Put the students into groups of four or five. Tell them to write the alphabet on a piece of paper. They have 5 minutes to write a different food for every letter of the alphabet. (e.g. A apple, B bread, C- cucumber).DO NOT USE Q U AND X! After 5 minutes you say a letter and get the students to shout out their answers.

PRESENTATION 5 minutes

Show the students a bag of rice and 3 apples. Ask them what they are called. Write on the board: How _________ apples do I have? How _________ rice do I have? MUCH MANY

Ask which word goes in the gap. Tell students that we use much when we cannot count the items and many when we can count the items. Show the students 3 apples and a bottle of water. How _________ apples do I have? How _________ water do I have? MUCH MANY

Hold up the Much & Many flashcards. Ask students to say if they use much or many. Then ask them to shout out a sentence. COMMUNICATION Gap Fill exercise. Hand out the gap fill exercise. When they finish students can check answers in pairs. PRACTICE ACTIVITY 10 minutes

COMMUNICATION PRACTICE ACTIVITY 5 minutes

Hold up a small bag of rice. Ask Is there much rice? Let the students try and answer. Write on the board: There isnt much rice. There isnt _________ water. Hold up a nearly empty bottle of water. Ask is there much water? Write the answer on the board. Hold up 2 apples. Ask How many apples are there? Write on the board: There are three apples. Then write: Negative: How many apples are there? There arent __many______ apples

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Now show three (or more apples) Ask Are there a lot of apples? Positive: There are a lot of apples. There is a lot of rice. There is a lot of water. COMMUNICATION PRACTICE ACTIVITY 10 minutes PRODUCTION ACTIVITY 10 minutes Correct the sentence. Hand out the Correct the Sentence worksheets. Tell students to decide if the sentences are correct or wrong and to rewrite them correctly. Students can check their answers in pairs. Find someone who. Hand out Find someone who worksheets. Tell all the students to stand up. They have 2 minutes to ask the questions to as many people as possible and find a different person for each question. When they have finished, keep the students standing up and ask them who answered each question.

WRAP-UP ACTIVITY 10 minutes

Get the students into teams of four or five. Tell the groups to choose a name for their team. Draw a scoreboard on the board. Give each team one board pen or piece of chalk. Tell them one person is the Runner. When you ask a question the runner must run and write the answer on the board. The first person to write the correct answer gets that team a point. You will hold up a flashcard and they have to write Much or Many on the board.