Step 10: Food and Drink
At the table — Some / any; countable and uncountable nouns
📖 Read — Breakfast Time
For breakfast, I eat bread and cheese. I drink tea with milk. My brother eats eggs. He drinks juice. We have some apples and some bananas on the table. Do you want some tea? We don't have any coffee today. Breakfast is my favourite meal!
🧩 Grammar — Some / any — countable and uncountable
Countable nouns have plurals: apple → apples. Uncountable nouns have no plural: bread, milk, tea, rice. Positive sentences use some: some apples, some bread. Questions and negatives use any: Do you want any tea? We don't have any coffee.
- I eat some bread.
- We have some apples.
- Do you want any tea?
- We don't have any coffee.
🏗️ Key structures
- I eat/drink + some… — I drink some milk.
- Do you want some/any…? — Do you want some tea?
- We don't have any… — We don't have any eggs.
⭐ Idiom & natural phrases
This lesson is a piece of cake!
🔤 New words
food made from flour, baked
I eat bread and cheese.
food made from milk
Bread and cheese, please.
food from a chicken
He eats eggs.
small white grains, cooked for meals
We eat rice at lunch.
a round fruit, red or green
An apple a day…
the white drink from a cow
Tea with milk.
a hot drink
Do you want some tea?
a drink from fruit
He drinks orange juice.
🎧 Say it with me
I eat some bread and cheese, and I drink tea with milk.
🎤 Your turn to speak
Talk about your breakfast: say what you eat and drink with some/any.
Say it out loud three times. Even better: record it on your phone and listen — your ear is your best teacher.
✍️ Your turn to write
Write a breakfast list: 3 sentences with some and 1 question with any.
See a model answer
I eat some bread and cheese. I drink some tea. We have some eggs. Do you want any juice?
Self-check: capital letters? Full stops? Did you use the grammar of this step?
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