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The document provides vocabulary about personality adjectives that can be used before or after verbs like "be". It then provides examples of adjectives with positive and negative meanings. There are also examples of using adjectives in sentences and questions about subjects and objects. Finally, it discusses grammar around present tenses and forming questions without or with auxiliary verbs like "do", "be", and "have".

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FOCUS - Unit 1

The document provides vocabulary about personality adjectives that can be used before or after verbs like "be". It then provides examples of adjectives with positive and negative meanings. There are also examples of using adjectives in sentences and questions about subjects and objects. Finally, it discusses grammar around present tenses and forming questions without or with auxiliary verbs like "do", "be", and "have".

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VOCABULARY: PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES

You can use personality adjectives:

* before a noun, e.g. He is a caring friend,

* after the verb be, e.g. My friend is caring.

My dad is usually cheerful. He's not a miserable man.

 significado  significado

clever stupid
funny serious

negative positive
kind unkind

interesting boring
caring selfish

outgoing shy
hardworking lazy

modest arrogant
cheerful miserable

sensible crazy

Negative prefixes un-, in-, ir-, dis-

___popular ___fit
__ fair ___healthy
__ honest ___loyal
__ experienced ___ sensitive

__ responsible ___cooperative
___ successful

Adjective + preposition

Passionate interested responsible involved good keen serious disappointed

about at for in on with


clever boring negative funny stupid unkind positive interesting kind serious

 

1 You were serious I negative I stupid to walk home on your own late at night. Next time call your parents.

2 Chris is clever I boring I serious. He never has anything interesting to say because he spends all his time playing computer
games.

3 Megan is so interesting I clever I unkind. She's only three and she can already count to fifty.

4 Joe complains about everything There is always l something wrong. He's very boring I positive I negative.

5 I think it was very kind I positive I funny to help Abi with her homework, Luke. Thank you.

arrogant caring cheerful crazy hard-working miserable modest

outgoing selfish sensible shy lazy

 Positive  Negative

1 He's really ___________, you know, always happy and smiling.

2 My brother only thinks about himself. He's so _______________ .

3 Sheila thinks she's the best at everything. She's really ___________.

4 Peter doesn't like parties. He's very _______. I´m the opposite. I´m really_________________.

5. He's very _____________ . He wants to be a teacher and he does lots of studying in the evenings.

GRAMMAR: PRESENT TENSES, QUESTIONS

 In object questions where we want to find information about the object, we use the auxiliary verb do/does

PRESENT SIMPLE BE: Am I crazy?


Is she at home?
Are they teachers?

Do you live in a house?

Does he work in a bank?

 In subject questions where we want to find information about the subject, we do not use the auxiliary verb do/does
 John broke a window.

This sentence has a subject (John), a verb (broke) and an object (window).

Now when we make questions to find this information, there are two possibilities.

object-----If we want to make a question where the answer is ‘window’, the question would be:

What did John break? John broke a window.

subject-----Now if we want to make a question where the answer is ‘John’, the question would be

‘Who broke the window?’ ‘John broke the window.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS Am I sleeping well?


V- ING Is she doing her homework?
Are they working now?

PRESENT PERFECT Have you ever been to Mexico?


Has he gone to New York?

Be – was. Were – been

Go- went - gone

Do – did - done

* Complete the questions with the correct form of do, be or have.

0 Why ____ you always so selfish?

1 ______ Carl ever been involved in a fight?

2 What ___________ an appropriate birthday present for my five-year-old nephew?

3 ____________doctors need to be good at Maths?

4 Why ___________ Kelly so miserable today?

5 Which sports _ __ you keen on?

6 How much_________________ they pay for their children's dance lessons?

Read the sentences and complete the questions about the subject and the object.
1 •Edward has eaten chips

a Who's_____________?

b What __________?

2 •Lawrence and Lucy are living in London.

a Who __________?

b Where ____________?

3 ·Katie reads about running marathons.

a Who ___________?

b What _____________?

4 •Charles has chosen hamburgers for lunch.

a Who _____________ ?

b What ______________?

Read the answer and write a question about the underlined part.

0 What_________?

They're talking about Emily's birthday party.

1 What _____?

I spend my money on clothes and music.

2 Who _____?

She's waiting for Ken.

3 What_______?

Oscar has read about Istanbul.

4 Which hotel _____________?

Liz has heard about the Regent Hotel in London.

5 Which team ____?

We play for the school team.

Conversation 1

A: Who________________?

B: My brother is interested in writing.


A: What 1 _____________ ?

B: He's writing a short story now.

A: Why 2 _____________?

B: He's writing it because he wants to win a competition at school.

A: Do 3 ___________ ?

B: Yes, I like writing.

4 ________________?

B: No, I haven't written a story for the competition.

A: What 5 __________________ ?

B: I'm baking a cake.

k Who 6 _____________ ?

B: I'm baking it for my mum.

k Why 7 _____________ ?

B: lt's brown because it's a chocolate cake.

A: Have'______________?

B: No, I haven't baked a cake before.

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