Foscari - Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica

A few letters of my friends ore coming. (means a small number; but is neutral or positive)
Few people come to the meeting. (means 'not many' and is negative)
a little / little
with uncountable nouns
We have spent a little of the money already. (means a small amount, but is neutral or positive)
You have little chance of succeeding. (means 'not much' and is negative)
A Write countable (C) or uncountable (U) after the following nouns.
1 baggage 2 behaviour 3 suggestion 4 evidence 5 function 6 furniture
7 help 8 insurance 9 job 10 idea 11 merchandise 12 news
B Underline the correct form.
The Internet search engines are some / any oft he largest and most commonly used search engines on
the World Wide Web. Their huge databases of millions of web pages typically index each / every
word on each / every one of these pages. By using them, searchers hope to find every / all page that
contains an occurrence of their search term.
Several/ Enough search engine companies have boasted for years of the millions of pages indexed in
their data base, and much / many others gladly announce the latest total number of pages, or URLs, in
their data base. However, not all / every search engines can actually deliver the total number of results
that they claim to find, and for the moment there aren't any / some that can make really intelligent
searches which always find what the searcher was looking for. Despite this, most generate enough /
several information for the general public but for serious researchers this may be too little / few.
4 Future forms
There are three main forms which we use to talk about the future.
l be + going to + infinitive
We use be + going to to refer to plans and intentions which we decided before the rime of speaking.
He's going to change job next year. (He has already decided to do this.)
Are you going to see the Louvre while you're in Paris?
(Is this part of your planned itinerary?)
We also use this form to make predictions based on present or past evidence. In some cases we can
already see that something is starting to happen. Look - it's going to rain. (The clouds are black.)
They're not going to like these changes to the schedules. (past experience shows they don't like
changes.)
2 Present continuous
We use the present continuous to talk about personal plans and arrangements in a very specific way,
particularly when we mention the time and place.
I am meeting Catriona at 4.30.
They're flying on Wednesday.
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