Concept Q's Help Please!

Monito wrote:

I'm giving a class tomorrow on Quantifiers: Some, Any, Many, Much, and I'm getting really stuck thinking of good concept questions for these words that don't include one of the other words. Has anyone any suggestions? Any help is very greatly appreciated! Phil

If I understand you correctly, some of these may help:

at least one

a lot of/lots of

a few

a large amount of/large amounts of

a small amount of/small amounts of

numerous

I think the best way is to produce comparison sentences, probably using the passive voice so that the determiner/quantifier is the subject. There's a good example in Michael Vince's Intermediate Lang Practice (p.141)

All (of )     the  tickets for the match have been sold
Many of
Some of
None of

These form a cline from Most to Least. How about bringing along some tickets? Hold up numbers of tickets and ask How many ? Some will respond with numbers initially, so you'll need to keep drawing them back to the sample setences.

You can use the ngeative forms No, Not any, Not Many /Not Much in the same way, I guess.
But clearly you need to teach the positive forms first.

Any help?

Simon