🍔 I Want A Hamburger! — Food, Wants & Favorites
Welcome to the food unit! Today you will learn common foods, say what you want ("She wants some ice cream.") and what you don't want, talk about your favorite food, and discover countable and uncountable nouns: a hamburger, some rice.
Lunch At The School Cafeteria
Read the little scene below.
🤔 What's YOUR favorite food?
🍕 Common Foods — And Your Favorite
Click a food to hear it. Use favorite to talk about the food you like best: "What's your favorite food?" — "Pizza's my favorite food!"
Favorite is the American spelling (in British English: favourite). Fries = French fries. And when food tastes very, very good, say: "It's delicious!" 😋
🍽️ Build Your Favorite Plate
Choose a person and their favorite food — the plate fills up and the sentence appears!
🙋 I Want, She Wants — Saying What You Want
Use want + noun to say what somebody wants. Remember to add -s after he, she, it!
✅ Statements
- "I want a hamburger."
- "She wants some ice cream."
- "They don't want coffee."
❓ Questions
- "What do you want?"
- "Do you want some water?"
- "Does he want a salad?"
🧾 The Cafeteria Order Board
Pick a person, a food, and ✅ or 🚫 — the board writes the order (with a, an or some!).
🧮 A Or Some? — Countable & Uncountable Nouns
Some nouns can be counted (one apple, two apples). Others cannot be counted (rice, water). They are uncountable.
🍎 Countable
- a hamburger · an apple (one)
- two hamburgers · three apples
- some hamburgers · some carrots (plural)
🍚 Uncountable
- some rice · some water · some beef
- never "a rice" ❌ or "two waters" ❌
Use an before a vowel sound: an apple, an orange, an egg. Use some for plural countable nouns and for uncountable nouns.
🧺 Count It Or Not?
Put each food in the right basket: a / an (you can count it) or some (you can't count it)!
Listen And Repeat!
Click 🔊 Listen to hear the phrase, 🐢 Slowly to hear it slower, then 🎙️ My turn and say it out loud into your microphone!
✍️ Practice Time!
Exercise 1 — True Or False?
Exercise 2 — Complete The Dialogue
Fill in the missing word in each line of the conversation.
🎭 Create & Record: Discussing A Meal
You're at the cafeteria with a friend. Write a conversation: ask what your friend wants, say what you want (and don't want), and talk about your favorite foods. Use a, an and some!
🎙️ Now, Record It!
Act out your conversation out loud (alone with both voices, or with a friend) and record yourselves. Then listen back!
🎯 Final Quiz — I Want A Hamburger!
Answer 7 questions to test everything you learned in this lesson!