STEP 2
Učiš O How much … ?/How many … ?
Kako bi mogao/-la O pitati i odgovarati na pitanja o količini
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1 How much water does an elephant drink? a Between 25 and 30 litres a day. b About 50 litres a day. c Between 80 and 160 litres a day.
Presentation How much blood have you got? a Read the quiz. Check the words you don’t understand.
2 How many ‘cookies’ does the average North American eat? a 350 a year. b About 500 a year. c More than 1,000 a year.
b S Write the answers. If you
don’t know, guess. You’ve got five minutes! 1c
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Listen to the questions and answers. How many right answers have you got?
Key grammar How much/many? Complete the table with much and many. Then complete the explanation.
3 How much blood is there
water is there? sleep do you get?
in our bodies? a About three litres. b Between four and five litres. c About six litres.
How biscuits do you eat? elephants are there?
Nebrojive imenice koriste Imenice u množini koriste
4 How many times a day do we blink? a About 9,000. b About 12,000. c About 15,000.
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Practice Complete the sentences. 1 How orange juice is there? 2 How chairs are there? 3 How sandwiches have you got? 4 How bread have we got? 5 How much paper there? 6 How many people there?
4 Try this! How many words do you know for parts of the body? Write a list. teeth, brain
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Module 5
Writing and speaking a Make questions with How much/many for these answers. 1 How much fish do the Japanese eat? 1 2 3 4 5 6
The Japanese eat 25,000 tons of fish a year. There are a thousand metres in a kilometre. About 400,000 babies are born every day. An African elephant weighs five tons. The Chinese eat 365,000 tons of rice a day. A jumbo jet can carry more than 500 people.
5 How many teeth has an adult got?
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Reading An average person in the USA.
a 28 b 30 c 32
Michael Smith was born at four minutes past five this morning in an average hospital in an average American town. We already know quite a lot about him. In his lifetime, Michael will eat approximately 30 tons of food, and he’ll use 28 million litres of water. He'll spend four hours a day in front of the TV, and 2.5 hours a day in his car. He'll spend 40 minutes a week playing with his children. He'll have at least 13 credit cards and he'll make more than a thousand phone calls every year. He'll probably have four or five different jobs. He'll get married at the age of 26 and he'll die at the age of 77.
6 How much sleep does an average adult get? a About six hours a night. b About seven hours a night. c About eight hours a night.
a Read about Michael Smith. What is the text based on? a an interview with Michael c Michael's diary
b a survey of life in the USA
b Read the text again. Write the answer or ‘We don't know’ for these questions.
7 How much does your brain weigh?
1 30 tons.
a About 500 grams. b 1.4 kilos. c About two kilos.
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How much food will Michael eat? How much water will he drink? Will he watch a lot of TV? Will he drive to work? Will he spend much time with his children? How much money will he have? Will he have the same job all his life?
Writing and speaking Questions about quantity Use what you know Think of more questions for a ‘quantity quiz’. Use How much/many. Here are some ideas.
b Work with a friend. Ask and answer the questions.
c If you have time, make another question with How much/many and ask a friend.
minutes / an hour money / a millionaire tomato ketchup / the British people / a football team
Share your ideas and make a list of questions on the board. How many questions can you answer?
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