Food and Drinks I Like

1Words for food and drinks

• rice, beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava
• bananas, mangoes, oranges, avocados, passion fruit
• tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, green vegetables
• meat, fish, eggs, bread, porridge

Drinks we drink:

• water, milk, tea, juice

Say them out loud. Point to the ones you ate this week.

2Saying what you like

• I like beans.
• I like milk.
• I like bananas.

3Saying what you do not like

Now Mugisha looks at his fish. He wants to say the opposite. Watch what he does — he pushes the two words do not in front of like:

• I don’t like raw onions.
• I don’t like cold porridge.

So here is the rule you just saw: to say NO, keep the word like and put don’t in front of it.

4Asking your friend

Keza wants to know about Gatete. She does not say “You like beans?” She puts the word Do at the front:

• If he likes them: Yes, I do.
• If he does not like them: No, I don’t.

Here is the whole talk:

Keza: Do you like beans?
Gatete: Yes, I do. I like beans very much.
Keza: Do you like fish?
Gatete: No, I don’t. I like meat.

5Talking about somebody else

Now watch carefully. When we talk about one other person — he, she, Keza, Mugisha — the word like grows a little tail:

• I like mangoes. → She likes mangoes.
• I like milk. → He likes milk.
• I like bread. → Uwase likes bread.

Look at that sentence again. The s jumped off likes and went to sit on doesn’t. So we never write “doesn’t likes”. Only one s in the sentence, and doesn’t already took it.

6One banana, or bananas?

Uwase says I like bananas, not “I like banana”. Why? Because she likes ALL bananas, not one special one. Foods you can count go in the plural, with an s: bananas, mangoes, eggs, tomatoes.

But look at rice. You cannot count rice — one rice, two rices? No! You scoop it. Foods and drinks you scoop or pour keep no s: I like rice. I like milk. I like porridge.

Try it yourself

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