English Out There – Pre-intermediate SS3 free sample English lesson

© 2009 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of the copyright notice or a Licence Agreement. www.languagesoutthere.com/static/termsandconditions Self-study Pack Level 3 Topic Aim Language Focus Skills Lesson 4 Describing objects To describe objects and their uses Adjective order Reading, speaking, listening Self-study 1. Look at Task Sheet 1: describing things. Read about a brick then do Exercise 1. Then do Exercise 2. Check your answers in the Answer Key. 2. Look at Task Sheet 2: adjectives. Read the examples of adjective order then complete Exercise 3. Check your answers in the Answer Key. 3. Look at Task Sheet 3. Do Exercise 4 and be ready to talk to your Out There conversation partner. 4. Now go to the Out There task. Out There Read your sentences describing objects to your Out There conversation partner. They should guess what each object is so only say the adjectives not the nouns. Then listen to your Out There conversation partner describe some objects to you. Write down as much information as you can. Ask them to spell any new words and check you understand what they mean. © 2009 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of the copyright notice or a Licence Agreement. www.languagesoutthere.com/static/termsandconditions SS3.04 p1 Task Sheet 1 Describing things A brick It’s a red clay block. It’s used to build houses, or as a paperweight! Can you think of any other uses? Exercise 1 Think of three more objects, describe them and write about their uses. Think of some unusual ones: A. B. C. Exercise 2 a. In the example of the brick, there are some adjectives. What are they? __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ © 2009 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of the copyright notice or a Licence Agreement. www.languagesoutthere.com/static/termsandconditions SS3.04 p2 Task Sheet 2 Adjectives Remember: if you have many adjectives to describe something, you can put them in order like this: Opinion Size Age Shape Colour (pattern) Origin Material NOUN wonderful blue ceramic plate boring old cabinet little square African mask Exercise 3 Adjective order Put these words in the correct order. 1. black, sports, car, old, beautiful. 2. bowl, new, small, Swedish, wooden. 3. striped, shirt, blue and white, cotton. 4. leather, brown, huge, sofa 5. green, bottle, tiny, glass, ancient, 6. kite, red and green, very big, Chinese. 7. green, trendy, little, plastic, chair. 8. old, big red, house, brick. 9. round, red, great, big, football. 10. thin, small, grey, laptop, plastic. Well done! You have now finished the preparation for the speaking practice task.© 2009 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of the copyright notice or a Licence Agreement. www.languagesoutthere.com/static/termsandconditions SS3.04 p3 Task Sheet 3 Out There Task Read your sentences describing objects to your Out There conversation partner. They should guess what each object is so only say the adjectives not the nouns. Then listen to your Out There conversation partner describe some objects to you. Write down as much information as you can. Ask them to spell any new words and check you understand what they mean. Before you call your Out There conversation partners: 1. Read the task again. 2. Do you understand it? If you do not, read it again. 3. Are you ready to call your partners? 4. Call and introduce yourself: ‘Hi, my name is (insert your name here), I’m learning English. Can I ask you some questions about describing objects?’ 5. Say ‘thank you’ and begin the task. 6. Remember to write your partners’ answers down and ask them to use the chat box to spell words and phrases you don’t understand. Ready? Think of three of your favourite objects. Describe them with as many words as you can, using the right order: 1. 2. 3. Ask your Out There conversation partner to tell you what objects you are describing. Don’t say the noun! Ask your Out There conversation partner to describe three objects: 1. 2. 3. © 2009 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of the copyright notice or a Licence Agreement. www.languagesoutthere.com/static/termsandconditions SS3.04 p4 Answer Key 1. 1. Adjectives: red, clay. 2. e.g. hard, rectangular. 1. a beautiful old black sports car 2. a small new Swedish wooden bowl. 3. a blue and white stripped cotton shirt. 4. a huge brown leather sofa. 5. a tiny ancient green glass bottle. 6. a very big red and green Chinese kite. 7. a trendy little green plastic chair. 8. a big old red brick house. 9. a great big round red football. 10. a small thin grey plastic laptop.