In this issue, Filipe learns how healthy eating can improve his performance on the pitch and bring his family closer together.

In this activity, you have to match the phrases from the story with the descriptions.

Language - Countable or uncountable

Filipe eats lots of burgers but doesn't eat much fresh fruit. Some types of food are countable nouns and others are uncountable. Burgers are countable but fruit is an uncountable noun. When we use countable nouns, we usually say 'a lot of' or 'lots of' in the positive form and 'not many' in a negative sentence. When we use uncountable nouns, we also use 'a lot of' in positive sentences but in negative sentences we usually use 'much', e.g. Filipe doesn't eat much fruit.

Activity 2: In this activity, decide if the sentence uses a countable or uncountable noun, tehn decide if you should use, 'lots of', 'much' or 'many' in each sentence.

Activity 3: In this activity, try remember what you have just read. Can you put the events of the story in the correct order?

Quiz

What do you think?

Was Filipe eating the right kinds of food at the beginning of the story? Why/why not?
Did Filipe make the right decisions at the end of the story?
Do you think it's important to eat healthy food? Is it important for families to eat together?
Is it easy to cook healthy food where you live?
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