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Quantities

Listening 1 ________ Listen o he conversation and answer these questions.
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1 What are hey alking about?
2 What are hey building?
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2 Listen again and write the quantities for 1-7.
1 brick blocks: 5 sand:
2 mortar: 6 gravel:
3 concrete: 7 water:
4 cement:
L a n g u a g e

How m u c h / H o w m a n y

We use how m u c h to talk about quantities we can't count. How much mortar will you need?
We use how many to talk about quantities we can count. How many bags of mortar will you need?

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3 How much or How many? Write the nouns n he box n the correct column. Add
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boxes bricks cement metres mortar water
How m u c h ? How m a n y ?

Vocabulary 4 Complete these phrases.
1 a oll of a packet of.
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2 a box of a bottle of _
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3 a bag of a in of
4 a cup of 8 a flask of.
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Speaking 5 Work n pairs. Student A ook at the nformation on this page. Student B look at
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the nformation on page 1.
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You want o build a 7 m 2 single skin brick wall. Ask Student B what materials
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you will need, and n what quantity. Use this table o answer Student B's
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Brickwork (m ): solid brick wall Number of bricks Number of bags of mortar
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1 120 5
2 240 10
3 360 15
4 480 20
5 600 24
6 720 29
7 840 34
8 960 39
9 1080 44

66 8 Planning ahead