Quantifiers ESL Games, Worksheets and Activities

In this insightful How much and How many speaking activity, students ask and answer health, diet and lifestyle questions with How much and How many and reply using a lot, quite a lot, not much, not many and none. First, students complete questions on the worksheet with How much and How many, adding two more health, diet or lifestyle questions of their own at the end. Next, in pairs, students take it in turns to ask their partner the questions on the worksheet and note down their answers. Their partner replies to each question using a quantifier from the board, expanding their answers where possible. When the students have finished, they look at their partner's answers and decide whether they have a healthy diet and lifestyle or not. Students discuss the findings in their pairs. Finally, students tell the class about their partner’s diet and lifestyle and discuss if each lifestyle is healthy or unhealthy and why.

In this entertaining How much and How many board game, students ask conversation questions with How much or How many and reply using quantifiers. Players take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter along the board. When a player lands on a square, they make a conversation question with How many or How much, depending on whether the noun in the square is countable or uncountable. For example, if a player lands on the word 'holidays', the player might ask 'How many holidays did you take last year?' If the group members agree the question is correct and appropriate, the player stays on the square. The group members then take it in turns to answer the question using quantifiers. When everyone has answered the question, it's the next player's turn. If the question is incorrect or doesn't make sense, the player goes back two squares and play passes to the next student. The first player to reach the finish wins the game.

This free quantifiers worksheet helps students learn and practice how to use much, many, a few and a little with countable or uncountable nouns. Students start by sorting nouns into countable and uncountable nouns. Next, students complete questions using the quantifiers much or many with the nouns from the first exercise. Students then complete answers to the questions with a little or a few. In the last exercise, students write much or many questions and answers with a little or a few.

Here is a useful quantifiers worksheet to help students learn the grammatical rules associated with much, many, some and any. Working alone, students complete the 20 sentences on the worksheet with much, many, some or any. Next, students look at the sentences on the worksheet and think about the grammar rules for using the four quantifiers. Students then complete a gap-fill text, explaining the grammar rules.

In this handy quantifiers error correction activity, students identify and correct errors in sentences that contain quantifiers. First, students read sentences on the worksheet, some of which contain errors in the use of quantifiers. If students think a sentence is right, they put a tick. If they think a sentence is wrong, they put a cross and correct the mistake. Next, students bet on their answers, depending on how confident they are about their decisions. Students bet between 10 and 100 points for each item. When the students have placed a bet for each sentence, elicit the correct answers from the class. If students guessed correctly, they win the amount they bet. If they guessed incorrectly, they lose that amount. The student with the highest grand total at the end is the winner.

In this creative quantifiers game, students race to write down countable and uncountable nouns that belong to different quantifiers and categories. The worksheet contains five columns with quantifiers as headings (a few, a little, some, a large number of, a large amount of). The students' task is to complete each row with nouns that fit a certain category. Read the first category to the class, i.e. something you can see in the classroom. Students then have one minute to complete the first row on their worksheet with nouns that fit that category, one for each quantifier heading. After one minute, students take it in turns to give their answers by making a sentence with the quantifiers, e.g. 'I can see a few bags, a large number of students, a little dust on the table', etc. Students score one point for every grammatically correct and appropriate noun. Two points are awarded for every original noun - a noun that no one else has written. This process continues until all the categories have been used. The student with the most points at the end of the game is the winner.

In this inventive a few and a little game, students use a few and a little alternately with countable and uncountable shopping items in a sentence chain format. Standing in a circle, the first student completes the sentence on the board with a few or a little and a matching shopping item, e.g. 'I went to the supermarket and bought a few oranges'. The second student repeats the first student’s sentence and adds a suitable shopping item preceded by a little, e.g. 'I went to the supermarket and bought a few oranges and a little chocolate'. The third student repeats the sentence, adding a few and a shopping item, and so on. This continues around the circle. If a student can't remember all the shopping items or uses a few or a little incorrectly, they are out of the game and must sit down. The last student left standing wins the game.