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Discipline: English as a foreign Credits - 2
language
Beginner level Practical lesson
Lexical theme: Describing people and
things
Grammar: Adjectives, quite/very
Teacher: assistant professor
Gaiipova Gulipa Abdiraimovna
Exercise 1.Read and translate the text. Some thieves stole things from your
classroom. A student saw them steal some pencils. Here is what he told the
police. Read the descriptions.
Describing people
The first thief is quite tall and thin. He has a long face, small eyes and a
long nose. The second thief is short and fat. He has a round face. The other thief is
very short and thin. He has oval face, big eyes and a small mouth. The fat thief has
big ears and short hair. The thief with a round face has a big nose. All of the
thieves wore T-shirts and jeans.
Exercise 2.Draw the pictures of the thieves.
Thief 1 Thief 2 Thief 3
GRAMMAR COMMENT
Adjectives, very and quite
Use of quite and very
A word, usually an adverb, that has little meaning in itself but
provides force, intensity or emphasis to another word. The most
common intensifier in English is ‘very’. ‘Quite’ is a degree adverb. It
has two meanings depending on the word that follows it: ‘a little,
moderately but not very’ and ‘very, totally or completely’
Example: That is very interesting
That is quite interesting. (reducing intensity)
The green and yellow ribbons are quite long.
The purple ribbon is very long.
Underline the adjectives in these sentences
1 She is a pretty girl.
2 I`m a professional footballer.
3 This game is quite interesting.
4 Our academy is very clean.
5 They are good players.
6 He drives very fast.
7 This garden is beautiful.
Put the words in the right order.
new/live in/house/they/a. They live in a new house.
1 like/jacket/I/that/green.
2 music/like/do/classical/you?
3 had/wonderful/a/I/holiday.
4 went to/ restaurant/a/Chinese/we.
5 he/car/has/beautiful/red/a.
Exercise 3.Tell your partner how you feel (using the following adjectives).
E.g.: I`m not tired. I`m quite hungry
angry
hungry
cold sad
happy thirsty
hot tired
Exercise 4.Describe these pictures and make a short dialogue with your
partner using
the adjectives in brackets (red, beautiful, rich, expensive, big, clean, blue and
white, dangerous, difficult, new, long, green).
Exercise 5. Use the following words to complete the paragraph below.
is, am, am wearing, has, China, have, wear, have, first, year, am, wore, has
My name is Miko. I am a ___student. I come from__. I __ not tall, and I __ not fat
either. I __ long hair and a pony tail. Like most Chinese, I __brown eyes. Today I
__ my student uniform. Yesterday I didn’t have class, so I didn’t __my uniform. I
__ jeans and a yellow T-shirt. I went to a movie with my friend Noi. She __ 154
cm tall and __short hair. She __ a big nose, but I think she is pretty.
Exercise 6. Write a short paragraph to describe yourself.
Remember: height and body build (verb to be)
hair color, length and facial features (verb to have)
clothes(wearing)
Exercise 7.Listen to the text [T.9] and answer the questions.
1 What was there in the middle of the picture?
2 Was the door between two windows?
3 Where was the cat sitting in the picture?
4 How many flowers were there in the picture?
Exercise8.Listen to the text again and retell it.
Father: What are doing?
Son: I’m writing a letter to my sister.
Father: But she can’t write.
Son: So what? She can’t read!
Check yourself
1. Choose the right opposite adjective:‘beautiful’.
a) cheap
b) ugly
c) tall
d) big
2. Choose the right opposite adjective: ‘expensive’.
a) cheap
b) new
c) white
d) long
3. Choose the right variant:Juan is 1.65m tall. Joe is 2m tall and Jim is 1.85m
tall. I think Joe is _____ tall.
a) very
b) very quite
c) not very
d) not
4. Choose the right variant:He is a millionaire, he is ____ rich.
a) quite no
b) not very
c) not
d) quite so
Glossary
English Russian Kazakh
cheap [ʃːip] дешевый арзан
beautiful [ˈbjuːtɪfʊl] красивый әдемі
tall [tɔ:l] высокий биік, ұзын
expensive [ɪksˈpensɪv] дорогой қымбат
dangerous [ˈdeɪndʒərəs] опасный қауіпті
poor [pʊə] бедный кедей
clean [kliːn] чистый таза
ugly [ˈʌɡli] безобразный ұсқынсыз
cheerful[ˈtʃɪəfʊl] весёлый, радостный көңілді, қуанышты
foreign[ˈfɒrɪn] иностранный шетелдік
Offi Make up a topic ‘My bedroom (description)’ and retell it (20 words).
ce Deadline - 1 week
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LI Read the poem ‘A light brown face, with two blue eyes’ and learn
it by W heart (p.163). Deadline - 1 week
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References
Main literature:
1. Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig. New English File. Elementary.
Student’s book, Oxford, 2012.
2. Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig. New English File. Elementary.
Workbook, Oxford, 2012.
Additional literature:
3. John and Liz Soars. New Headway. Elementary. Student’s book. Oxford, 2012.
4.CD New English File. Elementary level. Disc-1, 2012.
5. Murphy R. Essential Grammar in Use. A self study reference and practice book
for elementary students of English, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
