Student A
Work in pairs (or with two teams per group). Your teacher will tell you who is Student A and who is Student B. Your sheet has the things that you (already) possess and can swap with your partner. You can also look at your partner’s sheet to see what things you can get from them.
Try to find things below that your partner is happy to swap with something that they have on their list, reaching agreement on exactly what and how much or how many each of you will give to make that exchange. When you finish, another group will try to judge which of you got a better deal (each time and overall), so think about the value of what you are giving and getting and try to bargain hard with your partner. You can also combine several things from your worksheet and/ or your partner’s worksheet in each agreement you make if you like.
Things that Student A has and can give to Student B (in exchange for things on their sheet)
- meat (turkey, turkey legs, chicken, chipolata sausages with bacon, goose)
- crockery/ dishes (plates, bowls, saucers)
- decorations (fake snow, stencils, holly, tinsel, baubles, fairy lights, a star or angel, advent calendars, nativity scene figures)
- sauces (cranberry sauce, gravy, bread sauce, mustard)
- Santa suits
- drinks (winter ale, eggnog, mulled wine, champagne, rice wine, herbal rice wine)
- things for wrapping presents (wrapping paper, Sellotape/ Scotch tape, bows, tags)
- Xmas snacks (whole nuts in their shells, sugared almonds, candy canes, chocolate coins, gingerbread men)
- fruit and nuts (grapes, mandarin oranges/ tangerines, chestnuts, walnuts, Brazil nuts, dates, dried figs, raisins)
- Japanese food (bamboo shoots, mashed chestnuts, black beans, chewy rice cake, sticky rice, strawberry and fresh cream sponge cakes, buckwheat noodles)
- entertainment (board games, card games, Christmas crackers)
Listen to another group describe their deals and tell them who you think you got the better deal (on each thing and overall).
Ask about anything (on either sheet) you don’t understand.
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Xmas and New Year countable and uncountable nouns negotiation
Student B
Work in pairs (or with two teams per group). Your teacher will tell you who is Student A and who is Student B. Your sheet has the things that you (already) possess and can swap with your partner. You can also look at your partner’s sheet to see what things you can get from them.
Try to find things below that your partner is happy to swap with something that they have on their list, reaching agreement on exactly what and how much or how many each of you will give to make that exchange. When you finish, another group will try to judge which of you got a better deal (each time and overall), so think about the value of what you are giving and getting and try to bargain hard with your partner. You can also combine several things from your worksheet and/ or your partner’s worksheet in each agreement you make if you like.
Things that Student B has and can give to Student A (in exchange for things on their sheet)
- seafood (fish eggs, sea bream, salmon)
- cutlery/ silverware (knives, forks, teaspoons, sporks, serving spoons)
- Xmas cards (with robins, snow, Santa’s elves)
- condiments for Xmas desserts (fresh cream, sugar, brandy sauce, custard, ice cream)
- red underwear (pants, bras, vests)
- corkscrews, bottle openers and nutcrackers
- stuff for making your own Xmas ornaments and decorations (glitter, glue, toilet roll tubes, card/ cardboard)
- Xmas desserts (Xmas pudding, mince pies, Xmas cakes, Xmas logs)
- vegetables (potatoes, carrots, peas, parsnips, Brussel sprouts)
- Japanese New Year decorations (pine branches, bamboo, pine cones, the seven lucky gods)
- background music (CDs of Xmas pop music or Xmas carols, use of your streaming account)
Listen to another group describe their deals and tell them who you think you got the better deal (on each thing and overall).
Ask about anything (on either sheet) you don’t understand.
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Countable and uncountable nouns presentation
Without looking above, put “-s” after the nouns below that can take it and need it with “some”. The others can’t take “-s” and so should be left as they are. If you aren’t sure, try putting the noun with a number (in place of “some”) and “-s” and see if it sounds right or not. Brackets mean a word which can be taken out without changing the grammar.
some (background) music
some (black) bean
some (board/ card) game
some (cranberry) sauce
some (chipolata) sausage
some (chocolate) coin
some (Christmas) cracker
some (fresh) cream
some (Santa) suit
some (advent) calendar
some bacon
some bottle opener
some bowl
some bra
some brandy
some Brussel sprout
some Xmas carol
some carrot
some champagne
some (pine) cone
some corkscrew
some custard
some cutlery/ silverware
some date
some eggnog
some fairy light
some fake snow
some fish egg
some fork
some fruit
some glue
some grape
some gravy
some meat
some (mulled/ rice) wine
some mustard
some pea
some plate
some raisin
some seafood
some (Sello/ Scotch) tape
some (serving/ tea) spoon
some (sticky) rice
some sugar
some underwear
some vegetable
some wrapping paper
some bamboo
some bamboo shoot
some (mashed) chestnut
some (whole) chestnut
Check your answers with the first worksheets.
What kind of words are countable?
What kinds of words are uncountable?
When there is a general category and specific examples, which one is more likely to be uncountable?
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Both countable and uncountable with different meanings
What are the differences between these forms where both are possible?
some chestnut/ some chestnuts
some chicken/ some chickens
some egg/ some eggs
some paper/ some papers
some tape/ some tapes
some chocolate/ some chocolates
some ice cream/ some ice creams
some cake/ some cakes
some card/ some cards
some toilet roll/ some toilet rolls
Use these words to help explain the differences above:
bowl
cassette
cone
fried…
news…
scrambled…
slice
slice
thigh/ wing
toilet paper
whole…
Xmas…
Try drawing any of the ones above which you are not sure about.
Do the same with these:
some authority/ some authorities
some business/ some businesses
some capital/ some capitals
some contact/ some contacts
some culture/ some cultures
some damages/ some damage
some debate/ some debates
some exercise/ some exercises
some experience/ some experiences
some film/ some films
some finance/ my finances
some fire/ some fires
some glass/ some glasses
some instruction/ some instructions
some interest/ my interests
some iron/ some irons
some language/ some languages
some light/ some lights
some plaster/ some plasters
some review/ some reviews
some revision/ some revisions
some room/ some rooms
some television/ some televisions
some wood/ some woods
some work/ some works
Use these words to help explain the differences above:
… city
art…
Band Aid
bath…
expert
forest
grammar…
heater
interesting…
job
money
movie
painting
program
some vision/ some visions
space
champagne/ wine…
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