Revise or learn the following quantity expressions

Put the following expressions in the box under one of three headings.

Read and learn a dialogue by heart.

At the doctor’s

Patient.-Good morning, doctor.
Doctor.- Good morning, Mr. Akhmet. What's the matter with you?
P.- Oh, Doctor, it's quite difficult to describe my condition! It seems to me that the things are very awful. I've got all the diseases you have ever met during your practice. May be I'm the first patient who will die during your consulting. First of all, I've got a horrible headache. It has been lasting since Saturday and it seems to me that it'll never be ended. Moreover I'm constantly coughing, I suspect I've caught a cold. I have a sore throat and I haven't been sleeping for the last 24 hours well.
D-. Please, don't worry. I don’t think you will die here or somewhere else. I'll try to give a hand to you. Have you taken your temperature?
P.- Of course, I have. It's 37.50 (thirty seven point five).
D.- Well, let me see... Open your mouth... The things don't seem so bad as you think. You've really caught a cold: your headache, cough and insomnia are the direct aftereffects of it. The temperature is not very high, and your lungs are all right, but I'll prescribe you pills and tonic to gargle your throat. You have to take them four times a day during this week. Also I am sure that you've been rush down and you need to have a short rest.
P.- Do you really think so? Maybe you're quite right, Doctor. I'll try to follow your advices, but as for my rest... Unfortunately I have no time at all.
D.- But you'll have a nervous breakdown!
P.- Well, I'm ready to make my will and prepare for a better world!
D- Good luck, Mr. Akhmet. See you later.
P.- In a better world?
D.- No, no! Let's hope for the best!

Additional grammar and vocabulary exercises:

agreeing

disagreeing

half agreeing

1. I don’t think that’s true. 8. That’s rubbish

2. You are absolutely right. 9. I see what you mean, but…

3. I disagree, I am afraid. 10. That’s true in a way, but….

4. I take your point, but… 11. That’s right

5. Absolutely 12. Well, it depends.

6. Come on! 13. To a certain extent, but….

7. Do you really think so? 14. I would agree with that.

These expressions are used in more formalEnglish instead of wordslike most, many, some etc. Divide these expressions into two groups, according to if they are used with countable or uncountablenouns.Some can be used with both. Make up sentences of your own.

a great deal of	vast amounts of	a large number of
a great many	the majority of	a tiny majority of
a certain amount of	a small number of	a small amount of
the vast majority of	the overwhelming majority of	a number of
virtually all	virtually no

3. Which expressions from the ex.3. are followed by a plural verb and which by a singular verb? Give examples.

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