General English Pre-Intermediate Modules 1-4 Teacher's Guide (2.1 ...

4.2 Describing rooms
A. Elicit definitions of the adjectives for describing rooms. Students should use their dictionaries if
necessary. Elicit opposites to the adjectives, and write them on the board.
Answers: cool – warm spacious – crowded/small messy – tidy dark – light
comfortable – uncomfortable large – small clean – dirty
B. Students decide which adjective can describe which item.
Answers:
1. room – all of them: cool, spacious, messy, tidy, dark, comfortable, large, light, clean
2. table – messy, tidy, large, small, clean, dirty
3. cooker – large, small, clean, dirty
C. Pre-teach study (in this context, it is a room in your home you use as an office or study area) and
wooden (made of wood). Students read the texts.
D. Play audio 4.6. Students listen, and identify what information is differ nt between the written texts and the
spoken texts by writing down the different information they hear. There are five differences in each text.
Then they can look at the audioscripts to check their answers.
Answers:
My daughters’ bedroom is large and spacious – it’s the biggest room in the house. We have five daughters,
so they need a lot of space! It’s got two sleeping mats and two mosquito nets and a bamboo shelf for their
clothes. They’ve got posters on the wall of their favourite actors and pop singers, and photographs of their
grandparents. It’s a cool, comfortable room, with a window opposite the door.
My favourite room is my study. I go there for peace and quiet, because there are lots of people living in my
house! It’s quite a small room, with a chair, a shelf full of old books, a cassette player and a desk. I sit there
every evening and read. It’s very messy – I never tidy it. But I don’t mind a bit of mess. It makes the place
more comfortable.
4.3 Pairwork: Listen and draw
These activities might take a long time, so skip them if necessary.
A. Pre-teach supplies. Play audio 4.7 two or three
times. Students listen, and draw tant; they should
try to include all the things in the description.
Give them a few minutes to do their drawing,
then play the audio again to check.
Answer: The picture should look a bit like this:
B. In pairs, students describe their favourite rooms
to each other, and draw their partners’ rooms.
Then they check each other’s drawings for
accuracy.
5. Adverbs of degree
This section looks at using adverbs of degree to modify adjectives. Adverbs of degree tell us about the intensity
(strength) or amount of an action, an adjective or another adverb.
5.1 How short are they
A. Students look at the pictures, read the text and identify the people.
Answers:
left to right – Dennis, Ni Ni, Roi Ja, Johnny, U Zagana
B. Students read through the text, and decide which words and phrases are adverbs of degree. If necessary,
refer them to the Adverbs of degree section of the Language Reference.
Answers:
extremely, really, very, fairly, quite, not very
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