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Seasons of the yearspring, summer, autumn, winter Countries, languages and nationalities Names of countries, nationalities and languages, for example, Brazil/Brazilian, Canada/Canadian, China/Chinese, France/French, Ireland/Irish, India/Indian, Italy/Italian, Spain/Spanish, etc. Continents Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America. Page 38 Appendix 2 Affixes The words in the alphabetical list may be extended by the use of one or more of these affixes: mini-with nouns, sometimes without a hyphen, e.g. minibus, mini-tour non-with nouns and adjectives, e.g. non-essential re-with verbs and their related nouns, usually without a hyphen, e.g. rename, renaming self-with nouns and adjectives, e.g. self-importance, self-confident un-negative prefix, e.g. unsafe -ablewith verbs, to form adjectives, e.g. affordable -ed (-d)with verbs, to form adjectives, e.g. limited, used -er (-r)with verbs, to form nouns, e.g. teacher, advertiser; shopper, also comparative forms, e.g. brighter -esefor nationalities/languages, e.g. Japanese -essreferring to a woman or female animal, e.g. princess, lioness N.B. it is less common to refer to women in this way nowadays, and usually safer to use the ‘standard’ form e.g. actor, author -estsuperlative forms, e.g. tallest -fulwith nouns, for amount contained, e.g. spoonful; with nouns to form adjectives denoting characteristics or qualities, e.g. painful, peaceful -ingwith verbs, for activity or state, e.g. reading, frightening -ishfor nationalities or languages, e.g. Swedish; with nouns to form adjectives, e.g. childish -istwith nouns, for occupations, e.g. novelist, guitarist -lesswith nouns to form adjectives, e.g. breathless -lywith adjectives to form adverbs, e.g. seriously; with nouns to form adjectives, e.g. friendly -mentwith verbs to form nouns, e.g. enjoyment -orwith verbs to form nouns, for people, e.g. inventor -ywith nouns to form adjectives, e.g. hairy, sunny Page 39 Appendix 3 Topic Lists Clothes and Accessories backpack belt blouse boot button cap cloth (rain) coat collar cotton dress dry cleaning earring fashion fasten fit (v) fold (v) glasses glove go with (phr v) handbag handkerchief hat jacket jeans jewellery knit laundry leather lipstick make-up match (v) material old-fashioned (adj) pants pattern perfume plastic pullover put on pyjamas raincoat shirt shoe shorts silk size skirt sleeve(less) socks suit sweater sweatshirt swimming costume take off tie tights tracksuit trainers trousers T-shirt sweatshirt swimsuit try on underpants umbrella uniform wear (out) wool(len) Colours (dark/light/pale) black blue brown gold green grey orange pink purple red silver yellow white Communications and Technology access address airmail by post calculator call (v) call back CD (player) CD-Rom chat (v) chat room click (v) computer connect connection delete dial dial up digital directory disc/disk download (n & V) DVD (player) electronic(s) engaged enter envelope equipment fax hang up headline homepage internet invent invention IT keyboard laptop (computer) laser machine message mobile phone mouse mouse mat network online operator parcel password phone postage postcard printer program(me) reply ring ring up screen software switch on switch off telephone text text message turn off turn on Page 40 Education absent advanced arithmetic art bell biology blackboard board break(time) break up certificate chemistry class classroom college composition corridor course curriculum degree desk dictionary diploma drama economics educate elementary essay geography history handwriting homework intermediate instructor IT laboratory (lab) languages lesson mark (v) mathematics math(s) music nature studies notice board pencil case photography physics primary school qualification qualify register science secondary school state school study (v) subject technology Date: 2015-12-24; view: 976
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