2017-02-02 Daily Life: container words for food

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Handout: containers - Choose from the words in the box to complete each phrase (sometimes more than one answer is correct). Can you think of any other words to put in the spaces?
1 bunch
2 bottle/can/case, glass (In a restaurant you can have a glass of beer.)
3 tin, bag (A tin is a metal container, usually a circle, that you can open and close many times.)
	(You could also buy a bottle of coffee that’s ready to drink.)
4 box, bag
5 bar/bottle
6 can (This would probably be called a “tin” in British English.)
7 packet/box
8 packet/bag (In the United States, we usually say “chips” instead of “crisps”.)
9 bottle
10 box
11 jar
12 bottle/carton, jug
13 tube
14 bottle
15 bar
16 bottle/can
17 tin/box
18 jar/bottle
19 pack/carton (People understand “packet”, but we usually say “pack”.)
20 bouquet
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For noncount nouns (like most of the nouns on this handout), we must use container words to say the quantity.
You don’t say, “I would like to buy one bread,” at the grocery store. (Bread is in a loaf.)
You buy a box (or 2 boxes or 3 boxes) of cereal.

You can also buy and use by weight or volume:
- 1kg of sugar, 5lbs of rice (“lbs” means pounds)
- 2 liters of soda, 1 gallon of milk