Seminar 1 IDENTIFICATION.

MEETING MEW PEOPLE

1. Fill in the following table with the missing adjectives/ adverbs and use them in
sentences of your own.
ADJECTIVE___________________________________ADVERB
___________________________________________ Politely
___________________________________________Generally
Official
Formal
Absent-minded
Terrible
____________________________________________Entirely
Certain
____________________________________________Obviously
Full
Now complete the following rules:
! Manner adverbs can be generated by adding ___________ to an adjective.
! By adding –LY to an adjective ending in –L an adverb ending in ____ will be obtained
(ex. Usual – usually, careful – carefully)

2.When meeting foreigners you may want to ask them about their country/ nationality or
you may be asked where you come from. The most usual questions are “Where are you
from?” or “Where do you come from?” (SUGGESTION: look over the grammar section
of this unit in order not to mistake this question for “Where are you coming from?”)
Now fill in the following table:

I COME FROM… I’M ... I SPEAK…

The United Kingdom
France
Spain
Portugal
The Netherlands (Holland)
Belgium
Germany
Italy
Poland

3. 4. Read the following sentences and then complete the rules:

I smoke. He smokeS, too.
What time DO you usually get up on weekends?
DOES he love you?
Unfortunately we DON’T have enough money to buy a new car.
If she DOESN’T stop smoking she will become very ill.
In the Present Simple positive we add ___ to the verb with he, she, it, but not with I, you,
we and they.
For I, you, we and they the question starts with ____ and the negative is ____ +
infinitive.
For he, she and it the question starts with ____ and the negative is ____ + infinitive.

5. Put the verbs in brackets in the Present Simple.

a) The school________ (open) at 8.30 a.m. and _________ (close) at 10.00 p.m. every
day.
b) What time ___________________(the postman / deliver) the mail?
c) I’m not sure I know this word. What__________________ (it / mean)?
d) He ________________(smoke) more that 30 cigarettes a day.
e) The sun _______________(not – rise) in the west.
f) He_______________ (play) tennis very well.
g) Water _________________(boil) at 100 degrees Centigrade.
h) It __________(rain) very often in this part of the country.
i) Heavy metal music___________ (give) me a headache.
j) We ______________(not – work) at weekends.

6. Read the following sentences and then complete the rules:

ARE you having a good time? What IS he doing?
The baby ISN’T sleeping, I can hear him crying. I’M NOT eating sweets this week, I’m
on a slimming diet.
Questions in the Present Progressive are formed _____________________
__________________ while in the negative we add __________________
__________________.

7. What is happening at the moment? Write true sentences.

a) (I/ clean / my car)

______________________________________________________________
b) (It / rain)
______________________________________________________________
c) (She / watch / television)
______________________________________________________________
d) (He / smoke / a cigar)
______________________________________________________________
e) (Joan / learn / German)
______________________________________________________________
f) (They / do / their homework)
______________________________________________________________
g) (Thomas and Philip / play / basketball)
______________________________________________________________
h) (Melanie / work / on her computer)

8. Write a noun, an adverb and a verb starting from the adjective deep. Try to do the same
thing for the adjectives long, wide, high, short.
Deep - depth - deeply - deepen
Long
____________________________________________________________________
Wide
____________________________________________________________________
Short
____________________________________________________________________
b) write a noun, two opposite adjectives and an opposite adverb starting from the verb
care, used in the same text.
Care
____________________________________________________________________
c) Fill in the blanks: If something is frustrating you feel _____________. If something is
______________ you feel exasperated. If something is annoying, you feel
_______________. If something is boring, you feel _________________

9. Fill in the gaps to obtain compound adjectives:

self-____________ / _____________ /_____________
_____________ / _____________ / _____________-tempered
_____________ / _____________ / _____________-minded

10.Present Progressive or Present Simple?

2. Choose from the following verbs to complete the sentences below. You don’t have to
use all the verbs and you can use some of them more than once.
believe, belong, care, consist, contain, depend, doubt, forget, hate, have, hear, know, like,
listen, mean, own, prefer, remember, see, seem, smell, taste, think, touch, understand,
want
_______________(She-know) how to drive?
We ______________(take) the children to the circus on Sunday.
He ______________(study) archaeology at the moment.
__________________(You-feel) like swimming?
Miss Park _____________(dance) with John in the hall. Can you see her?
Jaguars _______ (run) faster than elephants.
The jaguar _______ (run) after its prey.
I usually _______ (go) to bed at about 10:30 PM but when I am the seaside I (go) to sleep
later.
I'm quite busy, I _______ (prepare) some documents for the conference.
The coffee ______ (boil), you can turn off the gas now.
Water _______ (boil) at 100°C.
You ______ (have) a good time or you ______ (prefer) to go home?
On weekends we usually _______ (have) breakfast later.
They always _______(drive) me crazy with their stupid questions.
What she _______(do)? She is reading; actually she _______ (read) a lot during the
holidays.
I _______ (study) more this week as we _______ (have) a test next Monday