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Describing pictures

and people

Educasia

Education in Context

Reading and Writing 2

Student's Book

RW 2 - page 1

Welcome to Reading and Writing Module 2: Describing Pictures and People.

In this module, you will focus on:

Describing Pictures

1. Introduction2

2. Sentences3

3. Structures to describe pictures: there is/are4

4. Structures to describe pictures: countable and uncountable nouns6

5. Structures to describe pictures: quantifiers8

6. Structures to describe pictures: prepositions11

7. Using your imagination12

8. Writing assignment13

9. Checking your writing: subject/verb agreement14

Describing People

10. Describing People: Appearance16

11. Describing People: Character23

12. Describing People: Putting it Together28

13. Check your Writing: Parts of Speech31

Reading and Writing Module 2:

Describing Pictures and People

Contents

structures - parts of a sentence - there is and there are - countable and uncountable nouns - quantifiers; some, any, much, many, a lot of - prepositions - parts of the body - state and manner adjectives - comparative adjectives - topic sentences - like as preposition - parts of speech skills - describing pictures, photographs and scenes - making mind maps - inferring - using your imagination - recognising subject/verb agreement mistakes - checking your own work - describing appearance and character - comparing people - identifying main ideas - ordering ideas - identifying irrelevant sentences - interviewing

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- What can you see in the picture? - What is he doing? - Do you think he is happy? - How old do you think he is? - Where do you think he should be at his age and WHY?

Think of a TITLE for this picture.

1. Introduction

A. Look at the picture, and discuss in groups:

Look at the following sentences to

describe this picture:

There is a boy in the picture.

He has a gun.

He is sitting.

B. In groups, make more sentences

about this picture.

C. In your groups, think of ideas to

complete the chart.

What can you see in the picture?

What can you imagine about what

you see in the picture?

DISCUSSION

BRAINSTORM

EXERCISE

D. Here is a description of this picture.

What is wrong with this description? List the mistakes. There's a boy in this picture. He is about 20 years old. He looks happy. He isn't smiling. He has a small gun. He's wearing a school uniform and a watch. There are some trees behind the boy. There's an elephant beside the boy.

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2. Sentences

A. What is in a sentence?

Think of some things that you find in a sentence.

B. Some of the following lines are sentences, some are not. Tick the sentences.

If it is not a sentence, why not?

1. Law Meh worked in a hospital for six years.

2. My friend in Mae Sot.

3. Ma Ma studies English after dinner.

4. He's tired.

5. Teaches mathematics to high school students in Shan State.

6. My father's old blue motorcycle.

7. I walk.

8. There are two dogs.

9. A beautiful house beside the Salween River.

10. It's raining.

Now read the information about sentences in the box. In pairs, discuss your answers.

EXERCISE

BRAINSTORM

Parts of the Sentence

A sentence has a subject and a verb.

It can have only a subject and a verb,

but usually sentences have other words, too.

Subjects come before the verb. They often

come at the beginning of a sentence.

Subjects can be one word, or many words.

The first letter of the first word of a

sentence is a capital letter.

A sentence ends with a full stop, question

mark or exclamation mark.

He cooks.

He sometimes cooks special cakes for us.

Everybody likes eating his cakes.

My uncle, my sister and my friends like cake.

We ate many cakes last night.

Do you want some cake?

I'd love some!

verb verb verb subject subject subject subject

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EXERCISEC. These sentences all have one mistake. Correct the mistake.

1. I think the boy's name Maung Maung Soe.

2. he was born in a village near Pa-an, in Karen State.

3. Didn't go to school.

4. His mother and sisters are very poor, and his father is dead

5. There a cinema in his village.

6. Likes Maung Maung Soe going to the cinema.

7. One night, some soldiers to the cinema.

8. Took Maung Maung Soe to the army headquarters.

D. Work in pairs. Write some sentences that have one mistake: - no verbor- no subjector - wrong subject/verb orderor- wrong punctuation Give these sentences to another pair. Can they find and correct the mistake?

3. Structures to describe pictures: there is/are

A. Look around you, at your classroom. Are these sentences true or false?

1. There's a teacher.

2. There are twelve students.

3. There's a blackboard.

4. There are two whiteboards.

5. There are some pictures on the walls.

6. There's some water in a bucket.

7. There are more male students than female students.

8. There's a lot of money on the desk.

9. There are a lot of chickens outside.

10. There are many intelligent, hardworking students!

B. Fill in the gaps in the box with these grammar terms. uncountable noun singular plural countable negative

ACTIVITY

EXERCISE

There is/are

There is + singular , _____________There is a shop near my house. There is + __________________There is some sugar in the bag. There are + ________________ noun.There are students in the class. In the _______________, use isn't and aren't with there. There isn't a teashop nearby. Use any with ________________ andThere aren't any teashops nearby _________________ nouns.There isn't any water in the river.

There's = There is

EXERCISE

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C.Make true sentences. Fill the gaps with there is/are/isn't/aren't.

1._____________ some food in the kitchen.

2._____________ any gold under the classroom.

3._____________ a lot of dust outside the window.

4._____________ a good football team in this school.

5._____________ any tigers near here.

6._____________ a piano in my house.

7._____________ some soldiers at the checkpoint.

D.Look at this picture for one minute. Then close your book. You have three minutes to write as many sentences as you can about this picture.

ACTIVITY

EXERCISE

Questions with there is/are

For questions, put there after is/are.Is there a toilet nearby? Use any with plural and uncountable nouns.Are there any shops in this village?

Is there any water in the bucket?

EXERCISE

F. Make questions using 'there is/there are'.

Example:elephants/in the jungle? Are there any elephants in thejungle?

1.dog /at your house?

2.ants / in the kitchen?

3.chalk / in the classroom?

In pairs, ask and answer these questions.

4.computers / at the school?

5.money / in your bag?

6.box / under the desk?

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Countable / uncountable nouns

Countable nouns are the names of objects that we can count. We can use numbers and a/an with countable nouns; they have plurals. a catthree cat sa newspapertwo newspapers Uncountable nouns are the names of things that we cannot count. We cannot use a/an or numbers with uncountable nouns; they have no plurals. water(NOT a water; two waters) wool(NOT a wool; two wools) weather(NOT a weather; two weathers)

4. Structures to describe pictures: countable and uncountable nouns

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