C1 Rex: Hi, I'm Rex. Are you 1 a new student?
Jenny: Yes, I'm Jenny. I haven't been to 2 any art class before.
Rex: The classes in this college are good. Have you brought 3 any equipment?
Jenny: I've got 4 some pens, but I haven't got 6 any brushes and 5 any paint. I didn't know what kind to buy. That's OK. I can lend you 7 some paint.
Jenny: Thanks very much.
Rex: Now we need 8 some paper. Let's ask the teacher. Excuse me, is there 9 any thick paper? There's 10 no paper in the drawer because we used it all last week.
Teacher: Oh. Well, I'll fetch some from the store cupboard now.
C2
Last month my husband and I went to a wedding in the north of the country. We needed to stop for a night on the journey. We didn't have 1 anywhere to stay, so I rang the tourist information office to find a bed and breakfast. I asked for 2 somewhere near the main road and was given the address of a small inn.
When we arrived it was almost dark. The inn was an old-fashioned place with a garden that 3 no one had tidied for a long time. The front door was locked. We soon began to feel that 4 nobody wanted visitors. When we rang the bell 5 nobody answered, but we heard a noise inside the building. We called out but 6 nothing happened. After several minutes we decided to look for 7 somewhere else to stay. We found a modern hotel in the nearest village. When we asked about the old inn, 8 everybody in the hotel was really surprised. 9 Nobody knew it.
"It's on the main road, just before this village," we explained.
At last the hotel owner asked her father, a very old man. "There was an inn many years ago, but it burned down," he said.
10 No one goes there now.
After the wedding, we drove past the place again. There wasn't 11 anything there. It seemed like a dream. But we know we saw 12 something.
We just don't know what it was.
C4
Countable nouns: CDS, FRUIT, MAGAZINES, PARTIES, TSHIRTS
Uncountable nouns: HOMEWORK, MONEY, JEWELLERY
Words that can be used with countable nouns: A COUPLE OF, A FEW, LOTS OF, MANY, SEVERAL
Words that can be used with uncountable nouns: A LITTLE, LOTS OF, MUCH
Examples:
1. I bought several CDS when I went shopping last week.
2. I have a few magazines to read over the weekend.
3. There are lots of fruits in the basket.
4. I don't have much money left after buying those CDs.
5. She has a little homework to finish before the weekend.
6. We attended several parties last month.
7. She has lots of jewelry in her collection.
8. He bought many T-shirts during the sale.
