67 2 Earth under pressure a) Decide if these nouns are countable or uncountable: carbon footprint, climate change, waste, consumption, product, plastic, habitat Ways of checking if a noun is countable: You can use the articles a or an before the noun; you can use many, several or few before the noun; and, of course, you can count them (one, two, etc.). Hint: Some nouns can be both countable and uncountable. b) Write sentences of your own, two with countable nouns and two with uncountable nouns. You can use the uncountable nouns in task a) or think of some new ones. 10 Find uncountable nouns The following are nouns from “War on waste”: lifestyle, jar, bag, clothes, activist, change, attention, trash, purpose, food Decide which of the nouns are uncountable and write them down. Compare with a partner. 11 Work with some and any a) Write two negative sentences and two affirmative sentences with each of the following uncountable nouns: blood, money, rain, news Use the quantifiers some and any. b) We use some and any with countable nouns as well. Write two affirmative sentences and two negative sentences using countable nouns. Use the quantifiers some and any. You can read more about the quantifiers some and any on page 256. The quantifiers some and any can be used with uncountable nouns. Examples: I don’t have any homework today. (negative sentence) I have some news for you. (affirmative sentence) Hæfniviðmið • Sýnt góð tök á orða- forða, meginreglum málnotkunar og notað tengiorð við hæfi.
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