General English Level 1 GELEV1 Unit 03 Topic 01.doc LANGUAGE FOCUS 08 Countable and uncountable nouns Julia says: We have some green curry paste and coconut milk, but we only have three mushrooms. Could you also buy a cabbage and four onions? 1 cabbage 3 mushrooms 4 onions We can count mushrooms, cabbages and onions – one, two, three, four … Mushroom, cabbage and onion are countable nouns. Julia says: We have some green curry paste and coconut milk.. How about some chocolate ice cream? oil rice ice-cream We cannot count rice, oil or ice cream. Rice, oil and ice cream are uncountable nouns. 110 QUESTLANGUAGE
