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Unit 10 BE CREATIVE
This unit includes: Vocabulary: musical performers, artists and artistic activities, compound nouns, word families: verbs and nouns, describing books.
10 A. Performers (vocabulary and listening)
10 B. Participle clauses (grammar)
10C. Music festivals (culture)
10D. Determiners (grammar)
10E. Beautiful minds (reading)
10F. Stimulus description (speaking)
10G. Book review (writing, describing books, adjectives)
RULE 1
To form nouns describing people doing some activity or occupation use suffixes –er, -or, -ar, -ist, -(i)an, -ess, -et, -ant, -ee, -ent, -ic , they can be formed either
from nouns or from verbs.
Examples from the Student’s Book:
List of nouns with suffixes –er, -or, -ist, -ian, -ess, -et
Nouns formed from verbs:
to sing – singer
to dance – dancer
to perform – performer
to compose – composer
to conduct – conductor
to paint – painter
to write – writer
to sculpt - sculptor
to settle – settler
to teach – teacher
to learn – learner
to discover – discoverer
to illustrate – illustrator
to create – creator
to visit – visitor
to sail –sailor
to own – owner
to publish – publisher
to play – player
to sell – seller
to present – presenter
to provide – provider
to program – programmer
to produce – producer
to act – actor, actress
to direct – director
to photograph (v, n) – photographer
to model (v, n) – modeler
to exhibit – exhibitor
to communicate – communicator
to tour (v, n) - tourist
Nouns formed from nouns:
music – musician
art – artist
a journal – journalist
a novel – novelist
a poem – poet
RULE 2
Compound nouns contain two or more words that have meaning as a set (e.g. telephone number, bookshop).
A compound noun contains two or more words which join together to make a single noun. Compound nouns can be words written together, words that are hyphenated, or separate words that go together by meaning. Most compound nouns contain at least one noun. The other word or words may be an adjective, preposition, or verb. The second word is almost always the main word.
Compound Noun List
adjective /adjective - blue-green, adjective/noun - blackboard, full moon adjective/preposition - forthwith adjective/verb - dry-cleaning, highlight noun/adjective - snow white noun/noun - toothpaste, football, fish tank noun/preposition (adverb) - love-in, hanger on, passer-by noun/verb - haircut, browbeat, rainfall preposition/adjective - over-ripe preposition (adverb)/noun - underground, underworld, bystander, onlooker preposition/preposition - without preposition (adverb)/verb - output, undercut, outlook, overthrow verb/adjective - tumbledown verb/noun - swimming pool, breakwater, washing machine verb/preposition (adverb) - takeout, check-in, drawback, lookout verb/verb - freeze-dry
Examples from the Student’s Book:
List of compound nouns:
Written together
a campsite
weightlifting
a scriptwriter
a playwright
a headline
Written as one word with a hyphen
festival-goer
music-lover
a line-up
open-air
right-wing
a ballet-dancer
Written as separated (two) words
a drama company
headline act(s)
a music festival
a music fan
a rock festival
mainland Europe
shuttle bus
dance music
techno scene
sound effect
a night out
a DVD player
a TV presenter