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课件网) Word power Unit 1 Friendship 八年级上册 Revision What is Max like Max is the tallest boy in his class. He wears small round glasses. Max is humorous. He often makes his friends laugh. Max is energetic. He never seems to get tired. Max is cheerful. He always encourages the writer to keep trying when he feels like giving up on difficult tasks. Presentation Read the text about Max on page 14 and answer the following question. What is Max like according to the text Max is cheerful and helpful. Presentation Read the text on page 14 again and answer the following questions. (1) What part of speech are the words in bold (2) Can you divide the words in bold into two groups and explain why “Cheerful”, “helpful” and “useful” are in the same group because they end in -ful. “Sleepless” and “helpless” are in the same group because they both end in -less. They are adjectives. Presentation (3) What do we call -ful and -less in English They are called suffixes. (4) What is a suffix A suffix is a letter or a group of letters added to the end of a word to make another word. (5) What do the suffixes -ful and -less mean The suffix -ful means “full of”, and the suffix -less means “without”. Presentation Read the table below the text about Max and work out the rule. n. adj. + ful less Practice Read the tip and complete Part A on page 14. cheerful cheerless helpful helpless meaningful meaningless × sleepless tasteful tasteless Practice (Optional) Complete the following text about friendship with the words from Part A on page 14. A true friend can even turn the (1) days into bright ones. He or she can fill the days with (2) moments. When you face problems, a (3) friend is always there to support you by offering advice or simply listening. He or she never makes you feel (4) . True friends don’t care whether you cheerless cheerful helpful helpless Notes: Here “helpless” means “unable to take care of yourself or do things without the help of other people”. Practice wear (5) clothes or not, because they accept you for who you are. They would never use (6) words that might hurt your feelings. Late-night talks with true friends might leave you (7) , but these deep conversations — not (8) l small talks—make your friendship stronger and more (9) . tasteful tasteless sleepless meaningless meaningful Notes: Here “tasteful” means “to be attractive and of good quality or chosen with good taste” while “tasty” means “having a strong and pleasant taste”. Here “tasteless” means “to be rude or impolite and not suitable for the situation”. Practice wonderful cloudless thoughtful hopeless useful colourful helpful Notes: Here “thoughtful” means “always thinking of the things you can do to make people happy or comfortable”. Here “hopeless” means “very bad at something or with no ability or skill”. Production Brainstorm as many words ending in -ful and -less as possible. Words ending in ... ...
