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