How many/ How much do you have?

 Howmany/muchdoyouhave? 

Palotás Gyöngyi Adél 

 

This is a simple game for practising countable and uncountable nouns and quantifiers. I saw this idea in a book called “165 ideas for language teachers”.  

 
 

Preliminaries 

Number of players: 15 

Age/ ProficiencyLevel: A2-B1 

Preparation Time: 2 minutes 

Play Time: 10 minutes 

 
 

Preparation 

The only preparation that is needed for this game is to come up with some examples for the demonstration of the game.  

The examples are provided in the table below. 

How much do you have? 

How many do you have? 

I have 500 forints.                 

I have a lot of chocolate.  

I have little water. 

I have 2 brothers. 

I have plenty of pencils. 

I have a few tissues.  

 
 

Object of the game 

The aim of the game is to practice the use of countable and uncountable nouns as well as the  corresponding quantifiers in speaking in a simple question-answer format.  

The goal is to remain standing by giving grammatically correct answers to the questions. The student who stays standing last wins. 
 

Roles 

Interviewer: a student who asks the questions alternately (How much / How many do you have?) 

Interviewees: The rest of the group who have to answer the questions. 
  

Rules of Play 

The class stands up. A volunteer  becomes the first interviewer.  

The interviewer comes to the front  of the class and asks one of the students one of the questions. . The interviewee has to answer by saying something that they have (or imagine that they have), but 

they have to pay attention to whether the noun is countable or uncountable. For example, if the 

interviewer asks, ‘How much do you have?’. the interviewee may reply ‘I have 500 forints.’  

The interviewer asks each person in the group switching between the two questions. 

Answers need to be grammatically correct. If students say an incorrect sentence or something that has already been said, they have to sit out of the game.  

Answers need to be original; that is, the same sentence cannot be repeated. Students may use the same nouns twice but with different quantifiers (e.g.: I have some apples. I have a couple of apples.) 

 

Once the interviewer has asked everyone a question, a new interviewer is chosen  The same procedure is repeated until only one person remains standing.  

 

Scoring 

Students who say grammatically correct and original sentences can stay standing. The winner is the last student standing.  

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