Quantifiers: countable and uncountable nouns

Ejercicio h

Did your interaction with the rest of the community contribute to your personal and academic growth? Explain why.

1. Identifico la pregunta: pide explicar si la interacción con la comunidad aportó al crecimiento personal y académico.
2. Recuerdo mi participación: compartí ideas, escuché a mis compañeros y recibí retroalimentación sobre mi instrumento.
3. Explico el aporte: aprendí a comunicar mis hallazgos y a aceptar críticas constructivas.

Respuesta orientativa: Yes, it did. Sharing my ideas and listening to my classmates helped me improve my instrument and learn how to work in a team, which contributed to my personal and academic growth.

In communities, evaluate your teacher's and classmates' contributions and answer the following questions:

Share your answers with your classmates and ask them for ideas to improve your instrument.

1. Preparo mis respuestas de forma clara y ordenada.
2. Escucho las sugerencias de mis compañeros y las anoto.
3. Selecciono las ideas más viables para mejorar mi instrumento.

Respuesta orientativa: I would present my answers to the class, listen to my classmates' suggestions, and choose the most useful ideas to improve my instrument.

Finally, write in your notebooks the assembly agreements reached by the community in order to contrast your knowledge about the natural phenomena and the physical magnitudes through experimentation.

1. Reviso los acuerdos tomados en la asamblea del grupo.
2. Los escribo en mi cuaderno de forma ordenada.
3. Relaciono esos acuerdos con los fenómenos naturales y las magnitudes físicas estudiadas.

Respuesta orientativa: In my notebook I would write the agreements of the assembly, such as respecting opinions and verifying data, and relate them to the natural phenomena and physical magnitudes we studied through experimentation.

Grammar: Quantifiers

A quantifier is a word used before a noun to express quantity. Frequent quantifiers are some, any, much, many, a few, a little and a lot.

Some quantifiers are used with countable nouns (you can tell their exact number) and others with uncountable nouns (you cannot tell their exact number). Uncountable nouns are always singular.

1. Observo la tabla de la página siguiente.
2. Identifico qué cuantificadores acompañan a sustantivos contables y cuáles a incontables.
3. Comento con mi comunidad las diferencias y doy ejemplos.

Respuesta orientativa: I would read the table, identify that many and a few go with countable nouns, while much and a little go with uncountable nouns, and discuss examples with my classmates.