Food 食物
BasicTheme words for food.
- Eight food words: rice, noodles, bread, egg, apple, banana, milk, water.
- Number → colour → noun: six red apples.
- Rice, milk and water are uncountable: some rice, a glass of milk.
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§Text Passage
1Today my family goes to a tea house for lunch. We eat noodles, rice and small dumplings. The dumplings are hot and nice. I drink a glass of milk. My little brother drinks water. Grandmother drinks tea.
2After lunch, we go to the market with Mother. The market is big and busy. We buy bread, eggs, apples and bananas. Mother lets me pick six red apples. I eat a banana on the way home. It is sweet.
3At home, I help Mother put the eggs in the fridge. I count them first. One, two, three... ten eggs! At dinner, we eat fried rice with an egg on top. Good food makes us big and strong. I love family days.
§Sentence-by-sentence translation Sentence-by-sentence translation
Today my family goes to a tea house for lunch.
今日我家人去茶樓吃點心。
We eat noodles, rice and small dumplings.
我們吃了麵、飯同小小的餃子。
The dumplings are hot and nice.
那些餃子又熱又好吃。
I drink a glass of milk.
我喝了一杯牛奶。
My little brother drinks water.
我弟弟喝水。
Grandmother drinks tea.
奶奶喝茶。
After lunch, we go to the market with Mother.
吃完午餐，我們同媽媽去街市。
The market is big and busy.
街市又大又熱鬧。
We buy bread, eggs, apples and bananas.
我們買了麵包、雞蛋、蘋果同香蕉。
Mother lets me pick six red apples.
媽媽給我選了六個紅蘋果。
I eat a banana on the way home.
我在回家途中吃了一根香蕉。
It is sweet.
好甜呀。
At home, I help Mother put the eggs in the fridge.
回到家，我幫媽媽把雞蛋放進雪櫃。
I count them first.
我先數一數。
One, two, three... ten eggs!
一、二、三……十個雞蛋！
At dinner, we eat fried rice with an egg on top.
吃晚飯的時候，我們吃炒飯，上面還有一個雞蛋。
Good food makes us big and strong.
好的食物令我們長得高大又強壯。
I love family days.
我好喜歡家庭日。
1Summary 重點摘要
Theme words for food.
2Vocabulary cards Vocabulary
A white grain we eat.
Long thin strips of food.
A baked food made from flour.
A round food that comes from a hen.
A round red or green fruit.
A long yellow fruit.
A white drink from cows.
The clear drink we all need.
3Step by step Steps
- Paragraph 1: at the tea houseExample: the family eats noodles, rice and small dumplings at the tea house; everything is hot and nice. I drink a glass of milk, and my little brother drinks water. Note that a glass of measures by the container, so the phrase is never left out.
- Paragraph 2: at the marketExample: the market is big and busy. We buy bread, eggs, apples and bananas. Mother lets me pick six red apples, and I eat a banana on the way home. Big and busy is a perfect pair of adjectives for describing a place.
- Paragraph 3: into the fridgeExample: I help Mother put the eggs in the fridge and count them first: one, two, three ... ten eggs! Dinner is fried rice with an egg on top. Counting aloud is a natural way to practise plural nouns — try it at home too.
- Food word groupsExample: staples: rice, noodles, bread, dumplings; fruit: apple, banana; egg and milk: egg, milk. Grouping words makes them much easier to remember. Read each group aloud twice and picture the food as you speak.
- How to count thingsExample: six red apples puts the number first, the colour second and the noun last; a glass of milk measures by the container; ten eggs is simply number plus plural. Remember the order: number, then adjective, then noun.
- Countable or notExample: eggs are countable, so we say ten eggs; rice is a grain-like mass noun, so only some rice with no s; milk and water are liquids, so they are uncountable too. The test is simple: if you can count items one by one, it is countable.
- Sentence practiceExample: I eat noodles at the tea house. / We buy ten eggs at the market. Write one sentence about eating and one about buying, put the place at the end, keep the number before the noun, then read each sentence back to check the order.
5Worked example Example
Write a shopping list: group the eight food words, add numbers, then check countable and uncountable nouns.
- Read the eight words: rice, noodles, bread, egg, apple, banana, milk, water, and picture each one.
- Group them: staples rice, noodles and bread; fruit apple and banana; egg and milk.
- Add numbers: six red apples, a banana, ten eggs, a glass of milk — number first, adjective in the middle, noun last.
- Countable check: eggs carries s and is countable; rice, milk and water are uncountable, so no s.
- Join the list into one line: We buy bread, eggs and six red apples. And comes before the last item.
- Read the final answer once and check every plural and uncountable noun.
- Answer: We buy bread, ten eggs and six red apples. We drink a glass of milk. Rice and water have no plural s.
6Common mistakes Mistakes
7Quick check Quick check
Q1What does the family eat at the tea house?
Q2How many apples do I pick?
Q3How many eggs are in the fridge?
Q4Fix it: ten milks
Q5What do we have for dinner?
8Recap Recap
- Eight food words: rice, noodles, bread, egg, apple, banana, milk, water.
- Number → colour → noun: six red apples.
- Rice, milk and water are uncountable: some rice, a glass of milk.
- Eggs are countable: ten eggs.
- Count the shopping in English at home.