How Old is Your Body?

Week 17^th -19^th March

Hello!

We started the week going through some acronyms…

Remember that you shouldn’t use abbreviations or acronyms if you write a formal email.

Do you remember what these ones stood for? (stand for: meaning of the initials)

GL -  NM – IOW  -  JAS  -  HF  -  AOB  -  IMO  -  GA  -  GBH  -  LOL  -  ASAP

…and spelling.

How do you say ¿(¡*ñ@ü)?

Well, when those symbols or letters don’t exist in English, the only option left is trying to describe them or explain what they are like.

Last week we also talked about health and lifestyle.

We learnt that our body age is not usually the same as our calendar age.

This, according to scientists and nutritionists, depends on several factors: exercise, diet, lifestyle, personality and social life.

·         How much do you walk a day?

·         How much sport and exercise do you do a week?

·         Do you eat too much fast food?

·         How many portions of fruit and vegetables do you eat a day?

·         Do you eat too much fat? And too many sweets?

·         Do you drink enough water?

·         Are you too stressed or quite relaxed?

So, there’s somebody in the class whose body age is 14! Good for you! I, on the other hand (on the contrary), would be a 150 years if I took the test today!

Study the chart below:

		Big Quantities	Small quantities
Singular / uncountable nouns	+	A lot (of) /plenty (of) /Lots (of)	(a) Little /(very)little
	-	much
	?	How much?
Plural / countable nouns	+	A lot (of) /plenty (of) /Lots (of)	(a) Few/ (very) few
	-	many
	?	How many?

“Much” and its compounds for singular; “many” and its compounds for plural.

·          “Too” before an adjective. He is too young to drive. He’s only 16.

·          “Too much” singular/uncountable nouns. There’s too much milk. Don’t buy more. It’ll go off!

·          “Too many” plural/countable nouns. There are too many chairs in this room. Take two to the other room, please.

·          “enough” before nouns. Are there enough photocopies for everybody?

After adjectives. Are you hot enough? Shall I turn the heating up?

“very”, just an opinion. “too”, often with a negative connotation.

·        That boy is very tall.

·        That boy is too tall. If he continues growing up like that, he may have problems with his bones in the future.

/too much / too many / enough

And that was all!

Tomorrow we’ll learn more things!