●Word power

Boys and girls, look at the screen, please. Can you tell us their jobs?

( model, farmer, composer, driver, worker, teacher, air hostess and soldier)

Word power in this unit deals with different expressions related to jobs. Try to increase your vocabulary by learning rules of word formations, such as adding suffixes to verbs, nouns and adjectives to form nouns. Practice and reinforce new vocabulary by doing the exercises. Try to acquaint yourselves with these different expressions and express opinions about your favorite jobs.

Step 1: Brainstorming

1. make a list of jobs you are familiar with. Then exchange your opinions about the reasons for your favorite jobs.

list of jobs__________________

your favorite job _______________

reasons for the favorite job______________

2. Think of rules for word formation you know and try to give examples of these rules.

For example:

beauty→beautiful strange→strangely operate→operation

comfortable→uncomfortable speech→speechless

Step 2: Vocabulary learning

1. Please look at the rules for word formation listed in the book. And try your best to think of more words that fit the rules. For example:

+ er bank→banker compose→composer think→thinker

+ or educate→educator edit→editor sail→sailor

+ ant assist→assistant serve→servant depend→dependant

+ ist art→artist chemistry→chemist science→scientist

+ ian music→musician history→historian technique→technician

2. Complete Part A first and then we we'll check the answers together.

Answers

A (1)teacher (2)actor (3)electrician (4)artist (5)photographer (6)musician 3. Focus on Part B and try to guess the meanings of all the words. I'll give you some explanations first:

A principal is a person who is in charge of a university, college or school.

A composer is a person who writes music.

A sculptor is a person who has the talent of making solid objects representing people or animals out of stone, wood, clay, etc.