How much water do you drink? >) Not much. How much water do we really need? G how much / how many?, quantifiers: @ lot, not much, ete V drinks P /w/, /v/,and/b/ \B \ BA 1 PRONUNCIATION /wi, /v/, and /b/ 3 GRAMMAR how much / how many?, quantifiers a ©73> Listen and repeat the sounds and words. a Complete the questions with How much or How many. litres of water do you drink? 1 sa ¥ ’ 2 mineral water do you drink? b Match the sentences and pictures. water vodka beer 1 Idontt drink any water. 2 1 don't drink much water. V Would you like a beer, Bill? 3 I drink quite a lot of water. B No, thanks, Vieky. A whisky and water. La V Do you want some biscuits ora sandwich? | BA sandwich A B c V Brown bread or white bread? \ B Brown bread. It's very good for you. BEE | se ; B ata ¢ © p.134 Grammar Bank 7B. Read the rules and do | the exercises. 2 SPEAKING ' a Read the introduction and the questionnaire. b <74 Listen and practise the dialogue. b In pairs, interview your partner: Who drinks more water? ‘What do many people take with them everywhere these days? A bag? A mobile? A credit card? ‘Yes, but alo a bottle of mineral water: In magazines today there are many articles telling us that we need to drink a lot of water to be healthy and beavtitul a I drink a lot of water. 2+ litres) a healthy but boring Iidrink quite a loc of water. (I-2 tres) —_b healthy and rice I:dor'e drink much water: (0-I lite) «perfect when you're thirsty | 4 { dorte drink any waeor: (0) s 1 Very often. a Yes. b No. “¢ I don't know. a Only b Only tap water. ¢ Mineral water and tap water.4 Complete the questions with How much or How many. 1 cups of coffee | 2 milk 3 glasses of wine | 4 cupsoftea|doyou | 5 fruit juice (drinka cay?) 6 beer ; recat vs 8 Coke In pairs, ask and answer. Answer with an expression from d ‘ora number. How many cups of coffee do you dank a day? Not many ~ two or three, 4 READING "4 Cover the magazine article Water —facis and myths. In pairs, Jookat these questions, Can you answer any of them? ‘b Read the article. Put the questions in a in the gaps. ¢ Read the article again, Match the [highlighted words with these phrases. 1 —________ howhot or cold it is ey when water comes out of your body when you are hot scientists do these not a long time ago things people believe which are not true minimum of havein it the truth is 4 Look at the questions in a again. In pairs, answer them fiom memory. Is there anything in the article you don’t agree with? Cc No. When need to drir Yes, of course. We get water from food, especially {ruit and vegetables (an apple is 85% water, an onion is 87%). We can also get water from other drinks like fruit juice, coffee and colas, which eontain a lot of water. No. In €xpetiiielits in America some people drank ‘only water and other people drank water, cola, and Coffee. Their levels of hydration were more or less ‘the same. m Yes. It can be dangerous to drink a lot of water. IRezehilly a British actor nearly died after drinking eight litres of water a day for several months.