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[jedstephen]

This weekend I am teaching my students to use: a lot, a little, much and many. Does anybody have any suggestions for activities or games I could do to help teach these? Any role plays?
Thank you

[latefordinner]

HMM, is the focus on countables and non-countables (grammar) or the various measure units (vocab)? The two pretty much go together, but you already know that. Chances are somewhere in the next 3 weeks you'll be reviewing that and adding the comparatives as well (more than, enough, too much, etc). Depending on the age and grade you can do a lot of visual demonstrations. I haven't thought of any original roleplays, but IIRC the text I used for grade 4 a few years ago had a couple of decent dialogues. I'll have a look and if I find it I'll pm you a sample. Target questions for me have been, "How much does he have?", "How many are there?" (not letting them count, of course) and the like. Keep us posted.

[Mister Al]

Take a jar of (cheap)sweets/candy and a bottle of water plus some empty bottles. Also use the classroom/students possesions for examples of countable and uncountable nouns. Use your props to teach simple structures with affirmative and negative statements plus questions. Follow up with a gap filling exercise. Reinforce by getting the students, in small groups, to empty their bags and report to the class about their partners possessions. After that have a team competion, again with the view to use the adverbs correctly. (If student numbers permit). You can even use the candy for prizes to the teams when they get an answer correct. I'm sure you can work out plenty of other ideas from this.

[jedstephen]

Thanks for all the help. I will let you know how it goes.