●Word power
Boys and girls, look at the screen, please. Can you tell us their jobs?
( model, farmer, composer, driver, worker, teacher, air hostess and soldier)
Word power in this unit deals with different expressions related to jobs. Try to increase your vocabulary by learning rules of word formations, such as adding suffixes to verbs, nouns and adjectives to form nouns. Practice and reinforce new vocabulary by doing the exercises. Try to acquaint yourselves with these different expressions and express opinions about your favorite jobs.
Step 1: Brainstorming
1. make a list of jobs you are familiar with. Then exchange your opinions about the reasons for your favorite jobs.
?? list of jobs__________________
?? your favorite job _______________
?? reasons for the favorite job______________
2. Think of rules for word formation you know and try to give examples of these rules.
?? For example:
?? beauty→beautiful??? strange→strangely?? operate→operation
?? comfortable→uncomfortable??? speech→speechless
Step 2: Vocabulary learning
1. Please look at the rules for word formation listed in the book. And try your best to think of more words that fit the rules. For example:
+ er??? bank→banker??? compose→composer???? think→thinker
+ or?? educate→educator?????? edit→editor?????????? sail→sailor
+ ant?assist→assistant??? serve→servant???? depend→dependant
+ ist?art→artist????? chemistry→chemist???? science→scientist
+ ian?music→musician?history→historian ????technique→technician
2. Complete Part A first and then we we’ll check the answers together.
Answers
A?(1)teacher?? (2)actor?? (3)electrician??? (4)artist???? (5)photographer?? (6)musician
3. Focus on Part B and try to guess the meanings of all the words. I’ll give you some explanations first:
A principal is a person who is in charge of a university, college or school.
A composer is a person who writes music.
A sculptor is a person who has the talent of making solid objects representing people or animals out of stone, wood, clay, etc.
An accountant is a person whose job is to keep and check financial accounts.
4. Complete Part B together. Any different answers are welcome.
Answers
dealer
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sculptor
the arts
education
business
accountant
manager
librarian
principal
professor
musician
composer
Job words
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Step 3: Vocabulary extension
1. Focus on Part C and complete it individually. Don’t forget to give your reasons for the jobs you choose. You may provide as many reasons as possible.
Sample answers
C?I’d like to be a librarian because I love reading books. It’s usually very quiet and peaceful in the library, with a variety of books on different subjects.
2. Please think about the different qualities we have to possess in order to take up a specific job. As you mentioned, you’d like to be a teacher. Then, in your opinion, what qualities should you possess in order to be a teacher? Do you think it’s easy to be a good teacher?
3. Please read the article in Part A in Writing on page 103 in Workbook to learn how to write an article to describe a person. Then do Part B on the same page.
Answers
Part B (P103)
Jiang Tianyi, first prize winner
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Jiang Tianyi, a sixteen-year-old boy from Class 5, Senior High 1, has won first prize in the Jianghai Web Page Design Competition held last week.
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A total of 356 contestants from all walks of life took part in the competition, which required them to use Flash to make a web page.
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Jiang Tianyi has been interested in computers for quite some time. He’s also interested in English. His favoutite lessons in school are Maths and Science. In his spare time, he likes to play football and Chinese chess.
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Jiang Tianyi attended the No. 1 Primary School and No. 1 Secondary School in Jianghai City. He dreams of going to the best university when he graduates from high school. His goal is to have a successful career in the IT industry.
Step 4: Exercises
A. Give the noun form of the following word to express the occupation or station.
(1) examine?? (2) art??? (3) build?? (4) chemistry??? (5) conduct???? (6) dance
(7) design??? (8) beg?? (9) dive??? (10) invent???? (11) translate?? (12) physics (13) lead??? (14) library?(15) employ?(16) piano?(17) prison??? (18) sail
(19) serve?? (20) discover?(21) technique?? (22) win?(23) visit?(24) operate
B. Choose the proper words for the blanks.
(1) west, western, westerner
?? Some _______ forms of greeting are not used in the East.
?? A ______ may find that traveling in Asian counties is quite an experience.
(2) compose, composer, composition
?? Beethoven was one of the greatest ______ in the world.
?? He played a piano piece of his own _______.
(3) advertise, advertiser, advertisement
?? If you want to sell your house, you may put an ______ in a newspaper.
?? Factories often ______ their goods on TV or over the radio.
?? An _______ always uses various means to attract the public attention.
(4) create, creative, creation, creator
?? The invention of steam engine led to the ______ of modern machine.
?? It is essential to develop a student’s _______ ability.
?? The people are the _______ of history.
Answers
A?(1) examiner?? (2) artist??? (3) builder?? (4) chemist???
(5) conductor???? (6) dancer?? (7) designer??? (8) beggar?? (9) diver???
(10) inventor???? (11) translator?(12) physicist (13) leader??? (14) librarian?(15) employer, employee?(16) pianist?(17) prisoner?? (18) sailor (19) servant?? (20) discoverer?(21) technician?? (22) winner?(23) visitor?(24) operator
B?(1) western , westerner
(2) composers, composition.
(3) advertisement, advertise, advertiser
(4) creation, creative, creators
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