Do They Have Any...?

Elementary (A1-A2) 20 minutes
Do They Have Any...? - A1-A2 some and any information gap tables about travel bags

ESL Some and Any Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Table Completion - Pair Work

In this quantifiers information gap activity, students ask and answer questions with 'some' and 'any' about what people have in their travel bags. In pairs...

ESL Some and Any Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Table Completion - Pair Work In this quantifiers information gap activity, students ask and answer questions with 'some' and 'any' about what people have in their travel bags. In pairs, students take turns asking questions about the missing information in their tables, e.g. 'Does Mia have any jeans in her travel bag?' Their partner answers using 'some' or 'any', and students mark each answer with a tick or cross. Students continue until both tables are complete, then compare their worksheets to check their answers.

How Much and How Many

Elementary (A1-A2) 30 minutes
How Much and How Many - A1-A2 worksheet with noun categorising, question completion, word ordering and matching

ESL How Much How Many Worksheet - Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises: Categorising, Gap-fill, Ordering, Matching, Forming Questions - Speaking Activity

In this free quantifiers worksheet, students use 'How much' and 'How many' with countable and uncountable nouns to ask and answer questions about...

ESL How Much How Many Worksheet - Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises: Categorising, Gap-fill, Ordering Words, Matching, Forming Questions - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work In this free quantifiers worksheet, students use 'How much' and 'How many' with countable and uncountable nouns to ask and answer questions about their everyday lives. First, students read questions and write the nouns in bold in countable and uncountable noun boxes. Students then complete questions with 'How much' or 'How many'. Next, students put words in order to make questions. After that, students match questions with their answers. Students then use pictures and 'How much' or 'How many' to complete questions and answer them with true information about themselves. Finally, in pairs, students take turns asking and answering the questions.

Many Guesses

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
Many Guesses - A1-A2 game with 12 partner guesses and How much and How many questions

ESL How Much How Many Game - Grammar and Speaking: Guessing, Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work

In this fun quantifiers guessing game, students predict information about a partner and ask 'How much' and 'How many' questions to check their guesses. Working alone, students complete...

ESL How Much How Many Game - Grammar and Speaking: Guessing, Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts - Pair Work In this fun quantifiers guessing game, students predict information about a partner and ask 'How much' and 'How many' questions to check their guesses. Working alone, students complete 12 sentences with guesses about their partner. Students then complete the questions with 'How much' or 'How many'. After checking the questions, students take turns asking and answering them in pairs, using the units in the guess sentences in their answers. Students tick each guess that matches their partner's answer and score one point. Finally, students add up their points. The student with the most points wins the game.

Some or Any?

Elementary (A1-A2) 20 minutes
Some or Any? - A1-A2 game with 24 sentence cards and matching some and any phrase cards

ESL Some and Any Game - Grammar: Gap-fill, Matching - Group Work

In this engaging 'some' and 'any' game, students race to use all their phrase cards by completing sentences. In groups, students take turns picking up a sentence card and reading it aloud. All the students look at their phrase cards for a match...

ESL Some and Any Game - Grammar: Gap-fill, Matching - Group Work In this engaging 'some' and 'any' game, students race to use all their phrase cards by completing sentences. In groups, students take turns picking up a sentence card and reading it aloud. All the students look at their phrase cards for a match. The student with the matching phrase puts it down and reads the complete sentence, e.g. 'I listen to some music on my phone.' If the other students agree that the sentence is correct, students remove both cards from the game. The first student to use all their phrase cards wins. The other students continue until all the sentence cards have been used. Finally, students check the answers with the class.

Athletes

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL quantifiers activity preview for A2 showing information gap about athletes and pair speaking practice

ESL Quantifiers Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this intriguing quantifiers speaking activity, students write 'How much' and 'How many' questions in order to find out missing information in a text about...

ESL Quantifiers Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Freer Practice - Pair Work In this intriguing quantifiers speaking activity, students write 'How much' and 'How many' questions in order to find out missing information in a text about four athletes. Students then ask and answer the questions with a partner. In two groups, students read the paragraphs and write down the 'How much...?' or 'How many...?' questions they need to ask in order to complete the missing information about the four athletes on their worksheet. Students then pair up with someone from the other group. Students take it in turns to ask their partner the 'How much...?' and 'How many...?' questions they prepared and fill in the gaps on the worksheet with their partner's answers. When the students have finished, they check their answers by comparing worksheets.

Health Questionnaire

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL how much how many activity preview for A2 showing health and lifestyle questionnaire pair work

ESL How Much How Many Activity - Speaking: Question Completion, Asking and Answering Questions, Discussion - Pair Work

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...

ESL How Much How Many Activity - Speaking: Question Completion, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Guided Discussion - Pair Work 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.

How Much or How Many?

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL how much or how many board game preview for A2 showing group question forming and freer speaking

ESL How Much How Many Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this entertaining How much and How many board game, students ask conversation questions with 'How much' or 'How many' and reply using quantifiers...

ESL How Much How Many Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Freer Practice - Group Work 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.

Much, Many, A few, A little

Pre-intermediate (A2) 20 minutes
ESL quantifiers worksheet preview for A2 showing countable and uncountable sorting, gap-fill, and question writing

ESL Quantifiers Worksheet - Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises: Categorising, Gap-fill, Writing and Answering Questions

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 ...

ESL Quantifiers Worksheet - Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises: Categorising, Gap-fill, Writing Questions and Answering From Prompts 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'.

Much, Many, Some, Any

Pre-intermediate (A2) 20 minutes
ESL quantifiers worksheet preview for A2 showing gap-fill exercises and grammar rules for much, many, some, any

ESL Quantifiers Worksheet - Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises: Gap-fills

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...

ESL Quantifiers Worksheet - Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises: Gap-fills 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.

Place your Bets

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL quantifiers error correction activity preview for A2 showing students identifying and correcting quantifier mistakes

ESL Quantifiers Activity - Grammar and Vocabulary: Identifying, Error Correction

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...

ESL Quantifiers Activity - Grammar and Vocabulary: Identifying, Error Correction 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.

Quantifiers Race

Pre-intermediate (A2) 45 minutes
ESL quantifiers game preview for A2 showing students racing to list nouns for quantifiers and categories

ESL Quantifiers Game - Vocabulary, Grammar and Speaking: Categorising, Forming Sentences, Freer Practice

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...

ESL Quantifiers Game - Vocabulary, Grammar and Speaking: Categorising, Forming Sentences from Prompts, Freer Practice 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.

Ask Yourself

Intermediate (B1) 35 minutes
ESL quantifiers game preview for B1 showing group question completion and 30-second speaking rounds

ESL Quantifiers Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this free quantifiers game, students race to complete questions with quantifiers (much, many, a few, enough, a lot of, any) and then answer the questions by speaking for 30 seconds. In groups...

ESL Quantifiers Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Freer Practice - Group Work In this free quantifiers game, students race to complete questions with quantifiers (much, many, a few, enough, a lot of, any) and then answer the questions by speaking for 30 seconds. In groups, students take it in turns to turn over a card and read the question on the card to the group, saying the word 'blank' where the quantifier should go, e.g. 'Are there BLANK of restaurants in your town or city?' The other students then race to repeat the question, inserting the correct quantifier as they speak. The first student to repeat back the entire question correctly must then answer the question by speaking for 30 seconds. If the student manages to do this, they keep the card. If the student stops speaking before the time limit has been reached, another student can try to steal the round by repeating the question and talking for 30 seconds. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins.

Expressions of Quantity

Intermediate (B1) 35 minutes
ESL expressions of quantity worksheet preview for B1 showing birthday party, grouping nouns, and writing quantifier questions

ESL Expressions of Quantity Worksheet - Vocabulary, Grammar and Writing Exercises: Categorising, Writing Questions, Gap-fill, Writing an Email

In this comprehensive expressions of quantity worksheet, students use the topic of a children's birthday party to practice quantifiers. Students start...

ESL Expressions of Quantity Worksheet - Vocabulary, Grammar and Writing Exercises: Categorising, Writing Questions from Prompts, Gap-fill, Writing an Email In this comprehensive expressions of quantity worksheet, students use the topic of a children's birthday party to practice quantifiers. Students start by grouping party-related nouns into countable, countable or uncountable, or uncountable nouns. Students then use prompts to write questions with 'How much' or 'How many' that go with a set of answers. Next, students choose the correct expressions of quantity to complete sentences about a birthday party. In the last exercise, students write an email describing the party using some expressions of quantity from Exercise C. Finally, students read their emails to the class.

Quantifiers Board Game

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL quantifiers board game preview for B1 showing group dice game and forming sentences with topics and quantifiers

ESL Quantifiers Board Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Forming Sentences - Group Work

Here is a rewarding quantifiers board game to help students practice or review quantifiers. Players take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter along the board. When a player lands on a quantifier...

ESL Quantifiers Board Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts - Group Work Here is a rewarding quantifiers board game to help students practice or review quantifiers. Players take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter along the board. When a player lands on a quantifier square, they turn over the top card from the pile and make a sentence combining the quantifier in the square with the topic on the card. For example, if the player lands on the 'several' square and turns over the topic card 'clothes', the student might say 'I go shopping for clothes several times a year.' The other students in the group judge the player's sentence. If the sentence is grammatically correct and makes sense, the player stays on the square. If not, they go back two squares. The first player to reach the finish wins the game.

Understanding Quantifiers

Quantifiers express amounts and numbers without always giving an exact figure, as in 'some water', 'a few questions' and 'enough chairs'. Choosing a quantifier that fits the noun and the intended meaning helps students ask about quantities, describe what is available and explain whether they have enough.

This page has 14 resources across A1-A2, A2 and B1: six games, four worksheets and four activities. Three resources are available as free downloads: How Much and How Many; Much, Many, A few, A little; and Ask Yourself.

The table gives examples of quantifiers with plural countable nouns and uncountable nouns.

QuantifierNoun type and useExample
somePlural countable or uncountable nouns; an unspecified quantity, including in offers and requests'Would you like some tea?'
anyPlural countable or uncountable nouns; often used in neutral questions and negative statements'Do you have any questions?'
many / how manyPlural countable nouns; a large number or a question about number'How many chairs do we need?'
much / how muchUncountable nouns; a large amount or a question about amount'We don't have much time.'
a few / a littleA small quantity: a few with plural countable nouns; a little with uncountable nouns'We have a few apples and a little milk.'
a lot of / lots ofPlural countable or uncountable nouns; a large quantity'There are a lot of people here.'
enoughPlural countable or uncountable nouns; a sufficient quantity'We have enough food for everyone.'
severalPlural countable nouns; a number greater than two but not very large'She asked several questions.'
noCountable or uncountable nouns; zero quantity'There is no milk left.'

How to Use Quantifiers

Check the noun's meaning in context: Use 'How much coffee?' for an amount of coffee and 'How many cups of coffee?' for a number of servings. Model the complete noun phrase so students can see what is being counted.

Connect the choice to the speaker's purpose: Contrast a neutral availability question, 'Is there any tea?', with an offer, 'Would you like some tea?' Teach these as useful patterns rather than a rule that every question requires 'any'.

Separate grammar from style: 'Many people work here' is grammatical. In everyday affirmative statements, 'a lot of' is often more conversational, particularly instead of unmodified 'much'; however, expressions such as 'so much time' and 'too many people' are natural in affirmative sentences.

3-Step Framework for Teaching Quantifiers

1. Connect Quantifiers with Noun Types: For an A2 sequence, begin by sorting nouns into countable and uncountable groups. Students then complete 'much' and 'many' questions and 'a little' and 'a few' answers before writing their own. This establishes the noun choices needed to build questions.

2. Ask Questions to Find Missing Information: Give partners texts with different information about athletes. Students prepare 'How much' and 'How many' questions, exchange answers and fill their gaps, then compare worksheets. Having a real information gap gives a purpose to the question forms practiced in the first stage.

3. Extend Questions into Conversation: Use a board game in which students form a 'How much' or 'How many' question from the noun on their square. After the group checks the question, everyone answers using quantifiers. This moves the sequence from finding supplied facts to asking and answering questions about wider topics.

Common Mistakes with Quantifiers

Using a counting expression with an uncountable noun: 'A few' needs a plural countable noun, whereas 'a little' can describe a small amount of water. Incorrect: 'We have a few water.' Correct: 'We have a little water.' To count containers instead, say 'We have a few bottles of water.'

Combining 'not' and 'no' to express zero quantity: In standard English, use a negative verb with 'any' or an affirmative verb with 'no'. Incorrect in standard English: 'We don't have no milk.' Correct: 'We don't have any milk.' Alternatively, say 'We have no milk.' Some dialects use negative concord, so explain this as the standard English pattern being practiced.

Common Questions About Teaching Quantifiers

What worksheet can I use for teaching how much and how many?

The free worksheet How Much and How Many builds from noun categorising to personal questions. Students choose 'How much' or 'How many', order words and match questions with answers. They then complete picture-based questions, answer with true information and interview a partner, connecting question formation with everyday communication.

What game can I use for practicing some and any?

In the game Some or Any?, students listen to a sentence card and find a phrase card that completes it. They read the full sentence for the group to check, then remove the matching pair. Trying to use all their phrase cards gives students repeated practice choosing 'some' and 'any' in context.

What speaking activity can I use for practicing quantifiers in everyday conversations?

The speaking activity Health Questionnaire connects quantifiers with diet and lifestyle. Students complete 'How much' and 'How many' questions, add two of their own and interview a partner. They record answers using expressions such as 'quite a lot' and 'not much', then discuss what those quantities suggest about their partner's habits.

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