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Departamento de Idiomas
Sub sector Inglés
Profesor: Viviana Paz / Jaume Vizcarro
4º Año Medio
When you are reading a text without the help of a dictionary and there
is a word which you don’t know, you may carry out the following
techniques:
What function does the word have in the sentences – what work
is it doing?
Exercise A 1
a. Put each of these NOUNS into two correct columns in the table below. First decide if
you can or can’t see each on and then decide if you can or can’t count each one.
Collective word
Person
Thing
Animal/Insect/Bird
Plant
Part of person
Building
Liquid/gas
Other material
Food
Abstract idea
Exercise A 2
Age/ Time
Colour
Material
Positive
Shape
Origin
Size
Negative
Exercise A 3
a. Put the VERBS in one correct column in the table below. If you’re not sure, try
adding it after the verb and decide it it sounds right.
Exercise A 4
Exercise A 5
a. Look at these sentences, and decide whether the words in bold are working as
nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs.
A:
Can see : luggage suitcase firefighter furniture finger plastic family flower water
cow blackbird back factory beef pencil wool musician steel beetle
Can count: suitcase problem firefighter finger family flower cow blackbird back factory
pencil musician beetle
Can’t count: luggage happiness furniture plastic love water beef advice wool Marxism
steel oxygen
B:
Collective word: luggage family furniture
Person: musician
Thing: suitcase pencil
Animal/Insect/Bird: blackbird beetle cow
Plant: flower
Part of person: back finger
Building: factory
Liquid/gas: oxygen water
Other material: plastic wool steel
Food: beef
Abstract idea: happiness love problem advice Marxism
Exercise A 2
A:
Age/ Time: new last elderly former
Colour: green dark cream
Material: glass wooden silk
Positive: attractive generous lovely exciting clever satisfied priceless
Shape: round long square oval
Origin: Chinese artificial
Negative: careless stupid impatient destructive unimaginative
Size: little wide
Exercise A 3
A:
Usually with direct object: cut know hit carry find discuss surprise
A:
HOW: carefully fortunately well fast badly
WHERE: away backwards here outside upstairs
WHEN: late son recently yesterday finally
Exercise A 5
A:
2 adjective
3 noun
4 noun
5 verb
6 adverb
7 verb
8 adjective
9 adjective