Descriptive writingFacts and opinions

Facts: Hula Hoop

Physical appearance Action Mood

Facts: Ice-skating

Facts and Opinions: City at night Physical environment Impression

Facts and Opinions: City and you

Order of adjectives

1. Opinion2. Size3. Age4. Shape5. Colour6. Origin7. Material8. Purpose

Practice 1

Silly English Young A nerd

Practice 2

Huge Metal Notebook A Brown

Practice 3

Red monitor Small A

8 parts of speech

Noun Verb Adjective Adverb Pronoun Conjunction Preposition Interjection

Noun/ Noun phrase/ Noun clause The computers made surfing the information

on the world wide web an easy job. The keyboards of the computer were broken

by a hammer fallen from nowhere. Out of curiosity, Peter and his courageous

friends decided to stay at the computer room at midnight to look for the answer to the mystery.

What the teachers intended to do in the coming examination was to hone the computer skills and boost the confidence of the students.

Verb: tenses We need to inform the principal at once

because Peter has downloaded some software illegally.

While the teachers were questioning the students, the principal informed the police.

We were alarmed when students could get access to pornographic materials online easily.

It was shocking to see many students did not know that illegal downloading was infringing copyright.

Adjective/ adjective phrase/ adjective clause

The apples are red, round and delicious. The red, round and delicious apples are

quickly out of stock. At the end of the lesson, three naughty

students hacked into the school website, stealing some confidential documents.

The girl sitting to the old man whose son had invented the bluetooth technology is my youngest sister just arrived from New York.

The scientist showed how to use the infra-red device on the brightly lit stage, in front of a large crowd of audience who was fascinated by the demonstration.

Dolphins: spot the relative pronouns Dolphins are mammals which live in the

water. Most species of dolphins can be found in the oceans where the water is salty. However, some dolphins live in fresh river water. In the wild, dolphins move around in large groups. They communicate with one another by making sounds in air-filled sacs which are connected to their blowholes. Humans cause the death of thousands of dolphins each year. Fortunately, in many parts of the world, laws have been made to punish people whose actions endanger dolphins. People who hunt dolphins may be heavily fined or even imprisoned.

Adverb/ adverb phrase/ adverb clause Susan plays well and won computer

games quite easily. She screamed like a frightened crow. She screamed as a crow does. She screamed as if she had seen a

ghost.

Ex 1: Act

The ________ performed very well in the play. He could ____ really like a hero.

You have to take ______ now. Otherwise, it will be too late.

John is both talkative and __________. He usually takes part ___________ in all kinds of extra curricular __________ at school.

Angry

Mother is _________ with John’s terrible misbehaviour. She shouted _________ at him and she was red with _________.

Attention

You must _________ all lessons on time. All students must pay ________ in class.

If you are not ___________, you will miss a lot. We must listen __________.

Beauty

Michelle is a great _______________. She is the most _________ girl I have ever seen. She can also dance __________.

We have to ________ our school to prepare for the anniversary celebration.

I want to be a _________ in the future and so I am learning how to look after my skin.

Care

Jane’s mother takes good _________ of her all the time. She __________ for her school work.

We must work _____________ and avoid __________ mistakes.

Cook

She is a good _________. She ________ well and she can _______ dishes of many different countries.

She uses a ___________ to cook rice. She has not ________ any rice yet. She has a _________ class in the

________ room.

Danger To avoid ___________, drivers should not

drink and drive. It is ________ if one does not drive carefully. Have you ever seen anyone driving

_________? Look at those cute pandas. Do you know

that they are __________ species? That patient is a ________ person. He has

killed his mother and his wife. The patient is in ___________. I am not sure if

the doctor can save his life.

Pronouns Give your computers to me and I will

return them back to the library. These students must obey the rules

and by doing so, we can keep the computers in good condition.

My classmates and their friends were having a Christmas party with me. They bought a lot of presents to exchange but I had forgotten to bring mine. I had to send an X’mas e-card to everyone myself to apologize.

Conjunctions

Jill and Jack were late because their alarm clock did not work properly. As a result, they were punished by the teacher for not observing school rules. However, they did not turn up in the detention class.

Preposition/ phrasal verb

The puppy crawled under the gate and ran across the field to the man in the blue jacket.

We picked Peter up at 7 to celebrate his final decision to give up smoking.

Interjection

Hurray! Oh my goodness! Cheer up! What a joke! How terrible! Help! Look! Watch out!

All mixed up!

A man was driving ( ) along ( ) a deserted ( ) country road ( ) when ( ) he met ( ) an old man carrying a heavy bag ( ).

“Do you want a lift ( )?” asked the man.

“Thank goodness ( )!” he accepted ( ) the offer ( ) gratefully ( ) and ( ) he ( ) climbed into ( ) the car immediately ( ).

Proverbs A stitch in time While the cat is

away, When there is a will, The early bird Everybody’s

business All that glitters Prevention is No pain

saves nine. the mice will play there is a way catches the worm is nobody’s

business is not gold better than cure no gain

Proofreading Last Sunday was my fifteen-year-old

birthday. Joe, me cousin, gave me an wireless mouse for my birthday present. I like it very much. It is darker in colour and it’s brand is ComLink.

Before I got this gift, I used to use a mouse connection to the computer with a very short wire. It was really inconvenience. But now, I can use the wireless mouse on the desk or even some distant away from the computer.

Expanding the passage to 120 words Another present I have received is an

USB flash drive. My brother, Thomas, gave it to me.

I like this present because from now on I can use it in many ways. I really have to thank my brother for this birthday gift.

Proofreading II (p.155) Time is money. Now, people are always

looking for a quickest means of shopping. Take necessary as an example. If we need some products such as rice, toothbrush, tissue paper, detergent, we no long need to go to different shops. Thanks to modern technology and advance network, these can be done in shorter time. For example, we can browser some shopping sites and conductive e-shopping. Or we may go to the supermarket and everything is there for us to choice.

Fill in the missing words For me, I would like to do my shopping on

the Internet. First, the _______ takes me only minutes and

the products will be ________ to my door. All I have to do is to go to the shopping website, ________ on the products that I want and a shopping list will be _________.

Then, _______ the process, there will barely be a mistake. With the computer ________ the calculation, it allows no discrepancy at all. Since I use my credit card to pay, no ______ is needed and everything is recorded.

Last, it does _______ me a lot of time.

Conditional sentences Type 0 (If + present, present)

If we put water into the freezer, it turns to ice. If we heat the metal bar, it expands.

Type 1 (If + present, future) If it rains, I will bring my umbrella. If there are more cases of H1N1, we will have no

school. Type 2 (If + past, would/ could)

If I had the money, I would buy a house. If I were you, I would send an e-card.

Type 3 (If + past perfect, would/could + have+ pp) If I had studied hard, I would have passed the

exam. If I had heard of the bad news, I would have been

more careful.

Fill in the missing words In the past, human beings ___________

(communicate) with others by means of a pigeon. The pigeons ________ (carry) messages across continents and _______ (connect) people. If there ______ (not be) pigeons, contacts _______ (cannot be made).

Now we ________ (have) Bluetooth technology, infrared devices and wireless broadband. If we ______(use) them in our computer, we _______(get) information more easily. However, if we ______ (be) not careful enough, we ________(lose) our personal data.

If you ________(have) a choice at present, ________ (you pick) a pigeon to send messages to your friends?

Proofreading: p.160 In the modern world, power supply was

the key to success. With sufficient power supply, the economic industrial develop can flourish in a country.

However, due to the pollution explosion and the short of raw material, country are developing new technology to generation power from alternative sources. The most rely and environmentally friendly one are solar power and hydro-power, which extact energy from the sun and water respective.

Rewrite the passage to 250 words Expand the three paragraphs given

and complete the last paragraph. Use conditional sentences to expand

the ideas.