Exercise 1: Decide whether each of the following nouns in Countable (C) or uncountable (U) ? Write in the blank
| 1. group: C | 2. people: C | 3. farmer: C | 4. land: U | 5. technique: C |
| 6. population: U | 7. area: C | 8. garden: C | 9. village: C | 10. culture: U |
| 11. field: C | 12. banana: C | 13. tree: C | 14. ash: U | 15. soil: U |
| 16. pollution: U | 17. crop: C | 18. rice: U | 19. com: U | 20. coffee: U |
| 21. flower: C | 22. water: U | 23. salt: U | 24. mountain: C | 25. information: U |
| 26. free time: U | 27. nature: U | 28. money: U | 29. game: C | 30. musical instrument: C |
Exercise 2: Write the plural form of the nouns below
| 1. river: rivers | 2. costume: costumes |
| 3. buffalo: buffaloes | 4. sheep: sheep |
| 5. tree: trees | 6. strawberry: strawberries |
| 7. toy: toys | 8. person: people |
| 9. piano: pianos | 10. woman: women |
| 11. dish: dishes | 12. leaf: leaves |
| 13. kite: kites | 14. loaf: loaves |
15. mouse: mice | 16. child: children |
| 17. goose: geese | 18. fish: fish |
| 19. man: men | 20. foot: feet |
Exercise 3: Put the words in brackets into the plural form where necessary.
1. Minoirty groups have their own musical (instrument) ......instruments...... like dan tinh and gong
2. The King use sticky (rice) ...rice... to make Banh Chung
3. My grandmother used to teach me many folk (song) ........songs...........
4. The staircase of a Muong's stilt house has an odd number of (step) .....steps..... such as 5,7 or 9
5. A big stilt house stands on high (post) ....posts............
6. The Lahu built their houses from (wood) .....wood........ and wild banana (leaf) ......leaves.......
7. Most minority (woman) .....women...... weave clothes and do (housework) ....housework........
8. In the mountains, there is not much (land) ...land... for growing (crop) .....crops.........
9. The number of minority (child) ....children... going to school is going up
10. People in the mountains live close to (nature) ...nature...
