Chapter 7 Comic strips

Adjectives before

nouns

Adjectives after

verbs

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Creating a comic strip Plan a (1) ________ or (2) ________ plot.

Design an (3) ________ finish.

(4) ________ things happen in each

picture.

Characters need (5) ________

personalities.

Draw with a dip pen with a (6)

________ nib.

Set the pictures in frames of (7)

________ sizes.

Draw (8) ________ sceneries to make

the strip

come to life.

beautifulnew

specialdifferent

funnydramaticexcitingstrong

funny dramaticexciting

New

strong

special

different

beautiful

Review

Create a character

hair

eyebrows

nose

cheeks

glasses

frame

mouth

long/black/curly

//

thin/black

small

thin/red

//

thin/black

smiling/big

Create a character

This girl has (1) ________________

cheeks, (2) ________________ eyes, a

(3) ________________

mouth and (4)

________________ hair. She also

wears glasses with (5)

________________, (6) ________________

frames.

straight round smallthin brown smiling

roundsmall

smilingstraight

thinbrown

Create a character

We can make people’s faces look funny by making one

part of the face bigger. Draw the girl’s face. Add a (7)

___________ nose, and bigger glasses with (8) ____________

frames. Now, draw very (9) _____________ eyes, and a

more (10) _____________ mouth. Add (11) _____________

cheeks, and (12) _____________ eyebrows and hair.

round thick bigblack small smiling

bigthick

small smilinground black

How good?

How big?

How much?

How old?

What colour?

Made of?

It’s a nice, new book.

It’s anexpensive,

cotton

shirt.

The glasses have a

thin,

brown frame.

Adjectives before nouns

• (large/glasses/modern/she/wears)__________________________________________________

• (long/curly/black/has/she)__________________________________________________

• (a/cotton/she/wears/green/dress/nice)__________________________________________________

• (the/has/girl/red/thin/cheeks/got)__________________________________________________

She wears large, modern glasses.

She has curly, long, black hair.

She wears a nice, green, cotton dress.

The girl has got thin, red cheeks.

How good?

How big?

How much?

How old?

What colour?

Made of?

She has

cheeks.eyebrows.eyes.hair.…

Adjectives before nouns

Using adjectives before

nounsWe often put adjectives before the nouns they describe.

He was a plump, middle-aged man. He had a little thinning, grey hair and a little moustache. Yes, that’s him.

Listen and choose: Our idols

1

23

4 5

6

How is she?

afraidhappyexcitedangrysad

worried

1 2 3

4 5 6

She is ______.

excit

ed

worrie

d

angr

y

sad

afra

id

happ

y

She looks ______.

How does she look?

How does his/her voice sound?

funny gentle

rough sweet

sweetgentlefunnyrough

How does it feel?

hardsoft

sharpcomfortable

roughsmooth

How does it smell?

nice awful/terrible/ horrible

How do they taste?

sweet salty

spicy sour

Using adjectives after

verbsWe also put adjectives after certain verbs.

He looks angry.

She looks happy.

belook

soundfeel

tastesmell

Using adjectives after

verbsWe can also put adjectives after the following verbs:

His face turned red.

The weather becomes cold.

He gets angry.

The boy grows tall.

FeedbackComplete the dialogues in the cartoons below by using the adjectives from the box. You can use the adjectives more than once.

Look, there’s Tom. He’s working as a waiter in the summer holidays.

He looks (1) __________.

Let’s go in and have a meal.

No! This is the worst restaurant in our city. Tom said the food is (2) __________.

Oh, come on!happy

awful/horrible/terrible

Hello Alice, hello Tim. Welcome to the worst restaurant in our city!

Well, at least the waiter sounds (3) __________.

This dish smells(4) __________.

It tastes (5) __________.

Here’s the bill.

Tom, is this right? It is very (6) __________.

This is a very bad restaurant, and a very expensive one!

polite

awful/horrible/terrible

awful/horrible/terrible

expensive

I heard that! Get out!

He sounds (7) __________.

I’m (8) __________. Let’s go to a good restaurant and have something nice to eat!

angry

hungry

Guessing game

Consolidation

• Student’s Book 9A, page 102, Exercise B.• Workbook 9A, page 31, Exercise B and C.