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(共14张PPT)
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 -ful Words ending in -less helpful beautiful successful helpless useless harmless
cheerful wonderful thankful careless endless fearless
thoughtful colourful playful thoughtless meaningless restless
careful useful harmful hopeless tasteless breathless
peaceful powerful forgetful fearless sleepless priceless
hopeful skilful … worthless tireless …
Production
Last Saturday, Shirley and I took a walk in the park near our homes. It was so peaceful out there.
We sat on a bench and talked about our school days. Suddenly, it started raining. We ran to hide under a big tree.
Production
While waiting for the rain to stop, we noticed a colourful butterfly stuck in a puddle. It looked helpless. Shirley carefully picked it up with a leaf. She was so helpful. Her thoughtful action saved the butterfly’s life!
When the rain finally stopped, we walked home. Our shoes were wet but our hearts were warm and light. How lucky I am to have a friend like Shirley! She can turn a rainy afternoon into something wonderful.
Thank you!

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