I. Write the words from the list in the correct column in the chart

advice business chocolate clothes furniture glass hair

iron jeans luck news paper people police politics toast

weather wood work trousers footwear

Always plural	Uncountable	Countable or uncountable

II. Complete with a/an or some.

1. I’m afraid the boss has got ____ bad news for you.

2. Can you lend me ____jeans? Mine are dirty.

3. We’ve had ____ really bad weather recently.

4. Have you got ____ iron? I need to press my shirt.

5. Could you buy me ____ paper – the Guardian?

6. I’ve got ____ advice for you: don’t do it!

7. My brother’s given me ____ interesting information.

8. We’ve got ____ luggage, a really big suitcase.

9. I’ve just bought ____ furniture for my new flat.

10. I’d like ____ glass of water, please.

III. In which sentences in task II could you also use a piece of?

IV. Choose the correct form.

1. People today is/are very stressed.

2. Most of the furniture in our flat is/are awful.

3. The traffic was/were terrible this morning.

4. What do you do when people give/gives you clothes that doesn’t

/don’t suit you?

5. We had a terrible holiday. All the accommodation was/were awful and

the weather was/were terrible.

6. Why is/are the news always about politics? Politics is/are boring!

7. The police have/has just phoned about a robbery.

8. Mathematics is/are my favourite subject at school.

READING

TEXT 4

I. Do you know anything about the philosophy of feng shui? Where is it

from? What is it about?