Controlled Practice

1) Read the following article. Pay special attention to countable and uncountable nouns.

On thanksgiving, Americans come together to give thanks for all the good things in their lives. Thanksgiving officially began in 1863, when President Lincoln declared that Americans would have a day of thanks. What is the origin of this great day? In 1620, a group of 120 men, women, and children left England for America on a ship called the Mayflower. They came to America in search of religious freedom. They started their new life in a deserted Indian village in what is now the state of Massachusetts. But half of the Pilgrims did not survive their first cold, hard winter. In the spring, two American Indians found the people from England in very bad condition. They didn´t have enough food, and they were in bad health. Squanto, an English-speaking American Indian, stayed with them for several months and taught them how to survive in this new land. He brought them beer meat, and animal skins; he showed them how to grow corn and other vegetables, he showed them  how to use plants as medicine; he explained how to use fish for fertilizer-he taught them many skills for survival in their new land. By the time their second fall arrived, the Pilgrims had enough food to get through their second winter. They were in better health. They decided to have a Thanksgiving feast to celebrate their good fortune.

They invited Squanto and neighboring Indian Families of the Wampanoag tribe to come to their dinner. The Pilgrims were surprised when 90 Indians showed up. The

Pilgrims did not have enough food for so many people. Fortunately, the Indian chief sent some of his people to bring food to the celebration. They brought five deer, fish, beans, squash, corn bread, berries, and many wild turkeys. The feast lasted for three days. There was a short time of peace and friendship between the Indian and the Pilgrims. Now on Thanksgiving, we eat some of the traditional foods from this period in American history.

Make a list of the countable and one for the uncountable noun you found in the passage. Do it in a microsoft word document and send it to this mail alma.rosales@catolica.edu.sv

2) Go to the following link and decide whether these nouns are countable (C) or uncountable (U) share your answers on our facebook  group, share it as an image.

3) Click on the next link and do the exercises based on the information seen in class.

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