5 Word building
1 a Look at the photo of Julian. What does he do,
do you think?
Read about Julian. Answer these questions.
b
1 How old was Julian when he started taking photos?
2 What did he do when he was eighteen?
3 Why did his pictures win the competition?
4 Who does he take photos of now?
Julian’s one of my oldest friends. He’s a famous photographer and he started taking
photos when he was only six years old. At the age of eighteen he entered an international
photographic competition and sent in some really colourful photographs he took on
holiday in India. There were over ten thousand other competitors, but Julian won because
of the fantastic colours in his pictures. He was really happy because he won a holiday!
He now takes photos of famous people for magazines and he gets a lot of work because he’s
always very friendly and easy to talk to. We don’t see each other very often these days, but
our friendship still gives me a lot of happiness.
2 a Look at the words in bold in the text. Write them in the table. Write the singular form of the nouns.
noun: person noun: thing adjective
friend 1 2
3 photo (or 4 ) 5
6 7 competitive
– colour 8
– 9 happy
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Look again at the table. Complete the rules with adjectives, things or people.
b
● Nouns for often end in -er or -or.
● Nouns for often end in -ship, -ion or -ness.
● often end in -y, -ic or -ful.
3 Choose the correct words.
1 Joanne is a very friend/ friendly person. 5 Most people are looking for happy/happiness in
2 She always wears very colour/colourful clothes. their lives.
3 My brother is very competitive/competitor – he always 6 Mark and I have a very interesting friendly/friendship.
wants to win! 7 Do you like entering competitive/competitions?
4 I went to a photographic/photographer exhibition 8 Would you like to see my photos/photographers of
last weekend. my holiday?
4 Look at these words. Do you think they are people (P), things (T) or adjectives (A)?
1 actor P 4 sadness 7 visitor 10 exhibition
2 sunny 5 relationship 8 invitation 11 interviewer
3 helpful 6 useful 9 athletic 12 illness
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