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hi everybody my name is Alisha today I'm going to talk about some counter words that we can use to talk about food so in previous lessons of this whiteboard series we've talked about uncountable and countable nouns some words that we use to talk about food are what's called uncountable nouns they're called uncountable nouns meaning we cannot say one two or three directly before the noun directly before the uncountable noun instead we count these uncountable nouns with counter words so today I'm going to introduce a few common words that we use to count uncountable food now so let's take a look at a few examples okay the first counter word I want to talk about is slice so we use most of these counter words for example slice followed by up so slice of plus the noun so let's look at some examples with slice we can use pizza I have an image here slice of pizza slice of cake slice of bread slice of fruit fruit keep in mind though we use fruit for things we can cut into maybe a shape like this or into a thin piece of fruit so we would not use for example berries with the word slice we would use for example melon or orange something we can divide by cutting is something we use the word slice with so slice is one that we can use with these verbs or sorry so slice is one word that we can use with these uncountable nouns for example we can also use the word piece so piece is a very very general word that we can apply to many different foods because piece refers to a part of something so if you imagine a large a large single item like a chicken or turkey or maybe steak a smaller part of that we can call a piece so we use the word piece we can use it with pizza or cake as we did with slice here but pizza a piece of pizza is a part of a larger item part of a larger pizza same thing with cake so we can use slice and piece with either cake or pizza and there are some other words we can use too so let me say that again so we can use slice or piece with both pizza and cake and there are some other cases some other nouns where we can use both words as well so we can use it for like I said meat because we often need to break meat into smaller parts to eat it so piece we can use with these larger items that we make into smaller parts okay another one you might hear is stick stick we use stick with butter so one piece of butter doesn't quite have the same meaning as one stick of butter so butter is often sold in sticks you might also hear stick used for instant coffee a stick of instant coffee or a stick of instant something else so dried ingredients are often sold in sticks you might hear a stick of coffee or maybe there's an ingredient in your country that is sold in sticks so we use stick to talk about a packet of dried ingredient that's in a long shape we also use stick for butter okay next one is Bowl bowl so foods that are served in a bowl typically we can use the word Bowl to talk about those serving sizes so again we use Bowl plus of plus the noun so a bowl of rice a bowl of soup a bowl of salad if you like you can change if you have a specific soup you want to talk about you can put the word before soup so for example a bowl of chicken soup a bowl of turkey soup a bowl of minestrone soup you can include the word to make the soup specific if you like okay next one jar so a jar is usually a glass container with a lid that you can screw twist the top of so we use jar for Jam or jellies for honey for mayonnaise for olives any item which is sold in a jar in that item we can use the word jar to count that one jar two jars for example next one is a bit special the word loaf so loaf we used to count bread you'll remember up here I said slice of bread slice of bread is used for a a piece a part of bread however loaf is used to talk about the entire bread uncut so bread that has not been touched a bread that has not been changed at all that's a loaf of bread a loaf of bread so we use the word loaf to talk about bread okay on to the other side the next word is head a head of something we use this for some vegetables like lettuce cabbage broccoli cauliflower kind of you can look at it in this sort of shape it has this very round side and then maybe there are some leaves or there like with cauliflower some flowers at the edge the other edge so we use the word head to talk about this so a head of lettuce or a head of cabbage a head of cauliflower we can also to talk about smaller sizes you can say half a head of cauliflower half a head of lettuce as well so we use head to count this kind of shape usually this is a vegetable okay next one is box so items which are sold in boxes for example pasta or cookies we can use box to talk about those another one is bag we can use bag to talk about items like flour sugar may be baking related items a bag of flour a bag of sugar kind of has this image a bag of something another one we use bar we use a bar to talk about candy a bar of candy we use bar for this you might also hear a protein bars that could be something else we use it for but when counting we use bar to talk about this shape of candy a bar of candy ok another interesting word especially for cooking is pinch pinch so to pinch means to put your fingers together in this motion when recipes say add a pinch of salt or a pinch of pepper it means a very small amount enough just enough that it can fit between your two fingers so a very small amount we use this for salt or pepper herbs and spices a pinch of salt a pinch of pepper means a very small amount just enough that can fit between your fingers is a pinch a pinch of something last one here also may be useful for cooking and eating and baking is packet packet so if you've been to a fast food restaurant maybe you say you have seen these small containers that are usually plastic which ketchup and mustard are kept in so we use the word packet to talk about those you might also find yeast packets if you like to bake so these are the small so these are small packages that you can rip you can tear open and the ingredient comes out so we use the word packet a packet of ketchup a packet of mustard we use packet to talk about these so those are a couple of common counter words that we use to talk about food I hope that these are helpful for you of course these are not the only counter words we use for food but there are some of the most common ones so if you have any questions or if there's another common counter word that you'd like to know more about or you'd like to share please let us know in the comments thanks very much for watching this episode if you liked it give it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel and check us out at English class 101.com thanks very much for watching and I'll see you again soon