1. Unit 1
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2. Leo ? Taurus ? Gemini ? Cancer ? … Capricorn ?
What characteristics does David have?
Leo ?
Taurus ?
confident
hard-working
David
clever
helpful
organized
Gemini ?
Cancer ? …
Capricorn ?

3. 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

4. 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

5. What is your star sign?
What are your characteristics?

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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!

10. generous
impatient
creative
energetic
curious
selfish

11. 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.

12. 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）

13. 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?

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. Goodbye