1. Adjectives before nouns Adjectives after verbs
OXFORD ENGLISH Shanghai Edition 9A
Comic strips
Chapter 7
LANGUAGE
Adjectives before nouns
Adjectives after verbs

2. Review Creating a comic strip beautiful new special different funny
Plan a (1) ________ or (2) ________ plot.
Design an (3) ________ finish.
(4) ________ things happen in each picture.
Characters need (5) ________ personalities.
Draw with a dip pen with a (6) ________ nib.
Set the pictures in frames of (7) ________ sizes.
Draw (8) ________ sceneries to make the strip
come to life.
beautiful
new
special
different
funny
dramatic
exciting
strong
funny
dramatic
exciting
New
strong
special
different
beautiful

3. Create a character long/black/curly hair glasses thin/black eyebrows
//
frame
small
nose
smiling/big
mouth
thin/red
cheeks
//

4. Create a character straight round small thin brown smiling round small
This girl has (1) ________________ cheeks, (2) ________________ eyes, a (3) ________________ mouth and (4) ________________ hair. She also wears glasses with (5) ________________, (6) ________________ frames.
round
small
smiling
straight
thin
brown

5. Create a character big thick small smiling round black round thick big
black small smiling
We can make people’s faces look funny by making one part of the face bigger. Draw the girl’s face. Add a (7) ___________ nose, and bigger glasses with (8) ____________ frames. Now, draw very (9) _____________ eyes, and a more (10) _____________ mouth. Add (11) _____________ cheeks, and (12) _____________ eyebrows and hair.
big
thick
small
smiling
round
black

6. Adjectives before nouns
How good?
How big?
How much?
How old?
What colour?
Made of?
It’s a
nice,
new
book.
It’s an
expensive,
cotton
shirt.
The glasses have a
thin,
brown
frame.
(large/glasses/modern/she/wears)
__________________________________________________
(long/curly/black/has/she)
(a/cotton/she/wears/green/dress/nice)
(the/has/girl/red/thin/cheeks/got)
She wears large, modern glasses.
She has curly, long, black hair.
She wears a nice, green, cotton dress.
The girl has got thin, red cheeks.

7. Adjectives before nouns
How good?
How big?
How much?
How old?
What colour?
Made of?
She has
cheeks.
eyebrows.
eyes.
hair. …

8. Using adjectives before nouns
We often put adjectives before the nouns they describe.
He was a plump, middle-aged man. He had a little thinning, grey hair and a little moustache. Yes, that’s him.

9. Listen and choose: Our idols4 1 5 3 6 2

10. How is she? How does she look? She is ______. She looks ______. afraid1 2 3 4 5 6
excited
worried
angry
afraid
happy
excited
angry
sad
worried
sad
afraid
happy
She is ______.
She looks ______.

11. How does his/her voice sound?
sweet
gentle
funny
rough
gentle
funny
rough
sweet

12. How does it feel?
hard
soft
sharp
comfortable
rough
smooth

13. How does it smell?
nice
awful/terrible/ horrible

14. How do they taste?
sweet
salty
spicy
sour

15. be look sound feel taste smell
Using adjectives after verbs
We also put adjectives after certain verbs. be
look
sound
feel
taste
smell
He looks angry.
She looks happy.

16. Using adjectives after verbs
We can also put adjectives after the following verbs:
His face turned red.
The weather becomes cold.
He gets angry.
The boy grows tall.

17. Feedback
Complete the dialogues in the cartoons below by using the adjectives from the box. You can use the adjectives more than once.

18. awful/horrible/terrible
Look, there’s Tom. He’s working as a waiter in the summer holidays.
Let’s go in and have a meal.
No! This is the worst restaurant in our city. Tom said the food is (2) __________.
awful/horrible/terrible
He looks (1) __________.
happy
Oh, come on!

19. awful/horrible/terrible
Hello Alice, hello Tim. Welcome to the worst restaurant in our city!
Here’s the bill.
This dish smells
(4) __________.
awful/horrible/terrible
Tom, is this right? It is very
(6) __________.
expensive
This is a very bad restaurant, and a very expensive one!
It tastes (5) __________.
awful/horrible/
terrible
Well, at least the waiter sounds (3) __________.
polite

20. I’m (8) __________. Let’s go to a good restaurant and have something nice to eat!
hungry
I heard that! Get out!
He sounds (7) __________.
angry

21. Guessing game

26. Consolidation Student’s Book 9A, page 102, Exercise B.
Workbook 9A, page 31, Exercise B and C.