Tham khảo tài liệu 'new cutting edgepreintermidiate - part 5', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 3 Stuart has lived and worked in Zurich for several years. Listen to him talking about life in the city. Which of the topics below does he mention banks hotels museums nightlife pollution restaurants scenery shops skyscrapers traffic 4 Put the words in the correct order to make sentences. Then listen and check. a really beautiful I around the city scenery some I There s b drive a few for I minutes You c much in the centre I traffic I There isn t d banks a lot There are I of e There are skyscrapers enormous I no f a few years ago open late There I many places I weren t g them all 1 don t enough time to try have Grammar Practice 1 Choose the best quantifier to complete the sentences. a Be careful on the road. There s many much a lot of traffic at this time of day. b My flat s got a nice view but there isn t enough many no space. c There aren t many much some young people in our apartment block. d I can t go out tonight. I haven t got any no many money. e The city s mainly modern but there are any much some old buildings. f We re very lucky there are a lot of much too many parks where we live. g There aren t any no much shops around here. h There are no a few any good restaurants but they re a bit expensive. 2 Imagine you are trying to persuade a foreign visitor that one of these places is the world s best city . a town city you know well your town your capital city Use some of the ideas in Language focus 2 exercise 3 or other ideas of your own. 1 Look at the list of nouns in exercise 3 above which are countable and which are uncountable Skyscraper is an example of a countable noun it has a singular and a plural form . Traffic is an example of an uncountable noun it has no plural form . 2 Look at the pairs of sentences below. Tick the pairs where the meaning is the same and put a cross X next to the pairs where the meaning is different. a There s a bank in the main square. There are some banks in the main square. b There aren t any good restaurants near here. .
