Unit 2 What is happiness to you?
t: quite good. we have learned the formation of nouns and adjectives before. now let’s have a revision about the ways to form adjectives.
s: we can add -ous, -ing and -ful and sometimes we can add -ly or -y.
t: great!look at the gragh now.
show students the following graph.
+ y thirsty, dirty, windy, sunny, cloudy, healthy, funny
+ ly lively, friendly, lovely, weekly
+ ic romantic, energetic, scientific, historic
+ al original, personal, national
+ ous famous, serious, various
+ ful careful, helpful, useful, cheerful
+ an european, american, australian
+ ern eastern, northern, southern
+able reasonable, comfortable, believable
+ ish childish, selfish
x+ ive active, creative, effective
+ less hopeless, helpless, homeless
+ en golden, wooden
+ ary imaginary, revolutionary, secondary
+some troublesome
+ like childlike, womanlike, manlike
+ ant ignorant, significant, important
+ ent silent, excellent
after that, ask the students to find the proper adjectives to the nouns relating to emotion.
give the students several minutes to discuss. then show the answers.
noun adjective noun adjective
disappointment disappointed excitement excited
nervousness nervous happiness happy
loneliness lonely sadness sad
depression depressed fear fearful
anxiety anxious frustration frustrated
jealousy jealous horror horrible
concern concerned anger angry
fright frightened contentment content
step ⅲ practice
help the students learn how to use the nouns and adjectives.
t: next, let’s do some exercises to consolidate what we have learned. open your books to page 22. look at exercise a. i’ll give you some minutes to do it.
after the students finish that, check the answers together.
t: let’s move to exercise b. read about flora’s experience of entering a speech competition and fill in the correct words to help her describe the feelings.
after the students finish it, check the answers.
t: look at exercise c. here are many english idioms about emotions. fill in the spidergram. you may use your dictionaries or discuss with your partners.
several minutes later.
t: let’s check the answers now. which idioms are used to express the feeling of anger?
s: let me try. i think “hot under the collar” and “fly off the handle” are used to describe the feeling of anger.
t: do you think he is right?
ss: yes.
t: i agree with you. what about happy?