Unit 4 - Vocabulary

• English
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Where am I?

Listen to me describe somewhere!

• I am standing with my back to an old museum, it is a very beautiful building. 
• There are cobble stones 
• There is a vey old "weighing house" building dating from 1620 opposite. Now it is used as a cafe/restaurant, people sit outside in the summer. 
• I can see a tall church spire. 
• There is a statue of a Dutch "explorer"- 

• Do you know any other examples of compound nouns made of two nouns? 

What is this?

Traffic light

What type of word is this?

A compound noun: 

We put two nouns together to make a compound noun.

The first noun describes the second.

EXERCISE 1 - P 53 /WORK IN PAIRS

• Which adjective describes somewhere that is away from a lot of houses!
• Which adjective describes a place where there are too many people? 
• Which is a very fast train?
• Which adjective describes something that is very safe?
• Which is a road that turns a lot?
• Which is very useful because it is close?
• Places linked by good transport systems
• Centre of a city?

LISTENING

EXERCISE 2 

You are going to listen to two young people talking about where they live. What type of places do they live in?

EXERCISE 3

Match the places and things described with the words from  exercise 1. 

- hyphens (or not) 

Compound nouns made from two different nouns can be found in three different forms: 

1. Separate words without a hyphen (eg. car park)
2. hyphenated words (eg. ice-skating)
3. made of one word (eg. website)

The only way to be completely sure about what form a compound noun should be is to check in a dictionary.

Exercise 4 - p53

Read through both boxes, A + B

Find one compound noun using the nouns in the boxes

Example: Apartment block / or / Apartment complex

Individually

Exercise 5 page 53 and p.61 ex 1

Answers to ex 5

• 1. housing crisis
• 2. apartment block/complex
• 3. traffic jams
• 4. town planners
• 5. public spaces
• 6. weather conditions
• 7 play area

Answers to self study 

p61 Exercise 1

Compound nouns

• 1 overcrowded
• 2 traffic signs
• 3 weather conditions
• 4 express
• 5 leisure centre/complex
• 6 secure
• 7 tourist spot
• 8 handy

Exercise 6

Discuss in pairs and make some notes about each other's ideas. Join a new group to continue the discussion

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Is putting rubbish underground a good idea? Why, why not?

Homework

Finish the Review of Unit 3 before tomorrow!