93 2 Earth under pressure 42 Opinion piece “Stop illegal wildlife trade!” is an opinion piece. How can you tell that this is an opinion piece? Study the text and write down your answers in keywords. GRAMMAR 43 Countable and uncountable nouns The words animal and ivory are both nouns. Decide if they are countable or uncountable nouns. 44 Work with nouns Decide if the following nouns are countable or uncountable: milk, animal, advice, sunshine, park, snow, childhood, sleep, beach, guard, police, money, news Create a two-column table using countable and uncountable as headings and place the nouns where they belong. Compare your decisions with a partner. Countable Uncountable 45 Write sentences Use at least four of the uncountable nouns from task 47 to write sentences of your own. Ways of checking if the noun is countable: • You can use the articles a or an before the noun. • You can add an -s to create a plural. • You can use many, several or few before the noun. • You can count them (one, two, etc.). Note! If you cannot do any of these things with a noun, but you can use some or any, the noun is uncountable. Some nouns can be both. Hæfniviðmið • Skrifað um skoðanir sínar, tilfinningar, reynslu og þekkingu með fjölbreyttum orðaforða. • Sýnt góð tök á orðaforða, meginreglum málnotkunar og notað tengiorð við hæfi.
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