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Leo ? Taurus ? Gemini ? Cancer ? … Capricorn ? What characteristics does David have? Leo ? Taurus ? confident hard-working David clever helpful organized Gemini ? Cancer ? … Capricorn ?

What is the star sign? Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer 21st Jan-19th Feb 20th Feb-20th Mar 21st Mar-20th Apr 21st Apr-21st May 22nd May-21st Jun 22nd Jun-22nd Jul Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer

Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn 23rd Jul-22nd Aug 23rd Aug-22nd Sep 23rd Sep-22nd Oct 23rd Oct-21st Nov 22nd Nov-20th Dec 21st Dec-20th Jan Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn

What is your star sign? What are your characteristics?

Do you know their opposites? What does your star sign say about you? Do you know their opposites? active generous modest strong inactive selfish proud weak outgoing clever patient fair shy silly impatient unfair honest hard-working polite impolite dishonest lazy kind successful helpful unkind unsuccessful helpless

A new chairperson/ monitor of the Students’ Union You are confident enough to take this job. You are brave enough to speak in front of many people. = It is confident of you to take this job. = You are so confident that you can take this job = It is brave of you to speak in front of many people. = You are so brave that you can speak in front of many people

It is kind of you to recommend me as the new chairperson. = You are kind enough to recommend me as the new chairperson = You are so kind that you can recommend me as the new chairperson It’s nice of you to say so. = You are nice enough to say so. = You are so nice that you can say so. More exercises

1.It’s+ adj+of+sb.+to do sth. 2.Sb.+ be + adj+ enough + to do sth. A word game Game rule: Look at the following pictures, find the most suitable adjectives, and make sentences with these two structures to describe them. 1.It’s+ adj+of+sb.+to do sth. 2.Sb.+ be + adj+ enough + to do sth. Try your best. Be active!

generous impatient creative energetic curious selfish

Practice Can you rewrite the sentence? 1. My sister is very kind. She likes to take care of others. (同义句) It ______________ take care of others. 2. David is curious. He asks his parents many questions every day. (同义句) David is _________________________ his parents many questions every day. 3. Reading English every day is necessary for us. (同义句) It’s ________________________ English every day.

Practice 4. To learn English is useful to us. (同义句) It’s ________________________________ English. 5. Millie is very clever. She can work out this difficult problem.(合并成一句) ___________________________________________. 6. meaningful, is, help, people, in need, it, to, are, who （连词成句）

The star sign says… To those born in the year of Goat: You will get some money. You will have success at school. You are lucky enough. You will have problems with your health. … Can you tell different parts of these sentences?

Practice 1. My cousin swims well. 2. John has few friends. 判断下列划线部分所作的成分: 1. My cousin swims well. 2. John has few friends. 3. Sandy is a girl. 4. David buys me a watch. 5. Sandy finds Chinese very useful. 6. Suzy can make good friends easily. 7. Would you like to show us a photo of yours? 8. Is Jim a hard-working student in your class? 9. All of them are singing happily. 10. She left her office for home.

Practice 辨别下列句子成分： 1. She felt very sorry. a. predicative b. adverbial c. direct object 2. That is a useful book. a. predicate b. predicative c. attributive 3. Jacky helped with the charity show. a. predicate b. subject c. adverbial 4. Many people knew about the accident. a. predicate b. object c. attributive Practice

Practice 5. She showed us a new camera. a. indirect object b. subject c. direct object 6. The students consider Mr. Wu the best headmaster. a. object b. subject c. object complement 7. He bought his daughter nice gifts. 8. Do you want your tea black? attributive b. object complement c. direct object

Rules: After-class activities – A Guessing Game Four students a group, each student tries to use as many adjectives as possible to describe one of them. 2. Other students try to guess who he/ she is describing. 3. And then choose one of each group to report in front of the class, let the whole class guess who he/she is describing.

Homework Please do the Guessing Game after class Please write a letter to recommend other student as the new monitor. 3. Please review the whole unit and finish the given exercises.

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