Quantifiers

Read an extensive course syllabus that explains what each activity is, how to complete it and how it will help you improve your understanding of quantifiers in English.

We set out the key objectives for this course so you can identify what you need to learn. We provide a downloadable checklist that you can print out to check off the points as you go through the course.

Go through our self-paced presentation to learn what a quantifier is as well as its position in a sentence. You can also download our presentation as a PDF.

Before starting the grammar section of this course, we provide you with all the correct materials. This includes the slides used in our grammar presentations with notes lines and an interactive worksheet, which you can answer whilst watching the videos. We provide the correct answers to this interactive worksheet too and point you to our grammar forum, where you can ask any questions about the correct grammar of countable and uncountable quantifiers.

Go through this self-paced presentation that explains when the structure of a quantifier changes and requires the additional preposition “of“. We also provide online flashcards with questions and answers for you to test your knowledge after goinig through this presentation. The presentation can be downloaded as a PDF oo.

Listen to audios of all the quantifiers from this course being read aloud by a native speaker where you can hear the quantifier slowly and clearly by itself and within a phrase. You can also download our phonetic transcription booklet to be sure you're pronouncing all of these quantifiers correctly. We also provide a booklet of sentences to practise with audios of each sentence too so you can practise using these quantifiers in sentences.

This is a short presentation that provides real-life and everyday examples of countable and uncountable quantifiers. You’ll see examples in the news and in books.

Use our downloadable booklet of pictures and checklists and complete this activity in a “where’s Wally?-style” way. As well as reviewing the use of countable and uncountable quantifiers, you’ll get to review your vocabulary for rooms in the house and places in town. We also provide answers to this activity in a downloadable document.

Mix and match our flashcards to help you create affirmative and negative sentences as well as questions to practise using countable and uncountable quantifiers. We also provide you with our flashcards template so you can create your own flashcards with your own target vocabulary too.

In this activity, you get to tell us all about your dream house. You can draw objects or make a collage of what you’d like your dream house to look like and then write 10 short sentences to describe the objects in this house, each using a quantifier. You can also share your ideal house sentences with us on our quantifier forum and get feedback and corrections from our teachers.

This is a week-long activity where you can keep a diet diary and then analyse what kind of food you’re eating. We provide information from various health experts explaining what the best diets are and you can compare the different types of food you’re eating with what the experts say. We provide a downloadable food pyramid as well as a template log for keeping track of your diet. At the end of the week you can return to this activity and share your diet with us on our private Flipgrid community via a video response.

Read through a variety of sentences that are all incorrect. You must spot the mistake and correct it. Answers are provided too.

This is a very open activity that can be done with friends in a spoken way or with written answers. We provide you with the beginning of a sentence and you must finish this sentence using a quantifier and any information you wish. You can write your answers to use in our quantifier forum and get feedback and corrections from our teachers.

Download our one-page summary of the topic to use for reference.

We list the objectives of this course and your achievements, so you can see how much you have progressed by taking our course.

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We always appreciate any feedback from our learners. Here you have the chance to fill in an optional questionnaire telling us what you liked and didn't like so we can keep on improving for our future learners.