20.1 Identifying types
AND FEATURES Presentation and practice
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a sport car
a racing car
a saloon car |
What types of (1) clock (2) boots (3) fire (4) knife (5) bottle can you see below?
Which of the objects has:
a pendulum spurs a label a corkscrew a plug |
a serrated edge a bell a rubber top a pipe laces |
Work in pairs. Identify each object by talking about something it has.
Example A: Which is the racing car ?
В: It’s the one with a number on the side.
20.2 The lost property office Practice ы
You will hear a conversation in a lost property office. Write down as much information as you can about the three coats described.
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Coat 2 |
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Coat 3 |
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How would you describe the objects below?
Now imagine you are in the lost property office. Have a conversation like the one you heard.
20.3 What do they do? relative clauses
Presentation and practice
I went to the Ideal Home Exhibition the other day, looking for a new cooker. I wanted a simple cooker with four rings and an oven, a cooker you light with a match and which then cooks your food. Well, there were lots of cookers that light themselves, and some that turn themselves off when the food’s done. I saw cookers you can programme to cook your breakfast while you’re still asleep, cookers that turn your chicken for you as it cooks, and even computerised cookers that you can ask for advice. For people in a hurry, there were microwave cookers that will do your dinner in just a few minutes, and for outdoor people, there were some small ones that you can take on picnics and plug into your car battery. I half expected to find a cooker that peels potatoes and cuts them into chips, too. And in all this collection of super-cookers with bells, lights, time-switches and computers, could I find just one that you light with a match?
Not a chance.
‘a cooker which cooks your food’
Make a list of the other relative clauses that describe what the cookers do.
There were cookers ................................................................................................
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‘a cooker you light with a match’
Make a list of the other relative clauses that describe what you can do with the cookers.
There were cookers ................................................................................................
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Now talk about some of the other things there were at the Ideal Home Exhibition, using the ideas below.
Example: Some kettles switch themselves off.
There were kettles that switch themselves off.
Some coffee percolators keep your coffee hot all day.
Some fridges can be fixed on the wall.
You can put some glass dishes in a hot oven.
Some saucepans stop your milk boiling over.
You can defrost some fridges without taking the food out.
Some dishwashers can even get the egg off your plates.
Practice
Work in groups. What kinds of things do you think you might find in an Ideal Home Exhibition in five years’ time?
Examples: a fridge that can make ice in five minutes
an electric blanket you can safely leave on all night