References

Main literature

1. Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig. New English File. Elementary. Student’s book, Oxford, 2010.

2. Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig . New English File. Elementary. Workbook. Oxford , 2010.

Additional literature

3. John and Liz Soars. New Headway. Elementary, Oxford, 2009.

Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Hand out

English as a foreign language DGHT

Credits 2 Academic year 2012-13

Practical lesson 9 The 1^st term

Elementary

Lexical theme: “Describing people and things”.

Grammar: “Adjectives, very and quite”

Assistant Professor: Gaiipova Gulipa Abdiraimovna

Grammar: “Adjectives, very and quite”.

Adjectives go before a noun. NOT It`s a house big. It`s a big house.

Adjectives don`t change before a plural noun. NOT They are prettys flowers. They`re pretty flowers.

Underline the adjectives in these sentences

1. She is pretty girl.

2. They are typical Kazakh family.

3. I`m professional footballer.

4. This game is quite interesting.

5. My father makes fantastic beshbarmak

6. Our academy is very clean.

7. They are good players.

8. He drives very fast.

9. This garden is beautiful.

10. It is so interesting.

Adjective Order. Write the correct noun phrase, putting the adjectives in order.

physics / boring / old / teacher slim / Canadian / handsome / snowboarder

sugar / blue / round / bowl wooden / huge / sailing / ship German / old / yellow / car

Listening and writing: Tapescript 3.2 [1.29]

Listen and write six sentences.

1. It is an easy exercise.

2. _________________

3. _________________

4. _________________

5. _________________

6. _________________

Write the opposites of these adjectives .

Cheap	expensive
clean slow good poor difficult safe full ugly new

Now think of a famous person in your country. Write five clues. Tell your partner. Can he/she guess.

Speaking: a) Tell your partner how you feel. Example: I`m not tired. I`m quite hungry.

angry hungry

cold sad

happy thirsty

hot tired

b) Describe these pictures and prepare short stories using the adjectives (red, beautiful, rich, expensive, beautiful, big, clean, blue and white, dangerous, difficult, new, long, green).

c) Find a person in your group who is …..

• very tall and has short dark hair.

• quite fat, with long dark hair and black eyes.

• elder you and with short fair hairs.

• quite young but very talkative.

• is quite short, thin and has long hair.

• very hard-working and clever.

• very late to the first class.

• quite silent and not talkative.

IV. Reading and speaking.

a) Read the text.