OA Unit 13 Colour

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OA Unit 13 Colour

Objectives: After having finished unit 13 you know more about Colour Vision Deviciency (CVD), you have learned some confusing vocabulary, the order of adjectives and past tenses and present perfect.

CVD

Questions CVD

1. What percentage of men and women are afflicted with some form of colour blindness?
   
2. Which colours often blend into each other when you are colour deficient (CD)?
3. What could be done in order to help the last 20% of CD people see colours?

Read the Martin’s blog (page 83) and discuss in pairs: How could CVD limit your career choices and impact the success of your career?

1. Tim and Carol  … (be) late yesterday.

2. When he  …. (arrive), we …. (have) dinner.

3. While they …. (play) tennis, we …. (take) our dog for a walk.

4. When I …. (get) up, he …. (sit) in the garden and …. (read) a book.

5. I …. (never be) to India.

6. She …… (have) a lot of nightmares lately.

7. No, I don't want to eat anything because I …. (just have) lunch.

8. She …. (sleep) well last night.

9. When he …. (walk) down the street, he …. (see) Jill.

10. After we …. (take) some photos of the cathedral, we …. (go) to the next restaurant to have dinner.

11. They …. (meet) my brother an hour ago.

12. This is the most beautiful painting I ….  (ever see).

Mixed Tenses

1. Tim and Carol  were late yesterday.

2. When he arrived, we were having dinner.

3. While they were playing tennis, we were taking our dog for a walk.

4. When I got up, he was sitting in the garden and reading a book.

5. I have never been to India.

6. She has been having a lot of nightmares lately.

7. No, I don't want to eat anything because I have just had lunch.

8. She slept well last night.

9. When he was walking down the street, he saw Jill.

10. After we had taken some photos of the cathedral, we went to the next restaurant to have dinner.

11. They met my brother an hour ago.

12. This is the most beautiful painting I have ever seen.

Answers

Which of the eight sentences (all taken from newspapers, scientific journals, and other edited writing in the Oxford English Corpus) use advice and advise correctly?

1. My representative did not advice me following the death of my mother.
   
2. He suggested crops to grow, and offered business advice.
   
3. The Corporate Documents and Bank Advices were issued on 16 November.
   
4. Crime alert letters were sent home advising parents to be vigilant.
   
5. The travel agents adviced him to travel via Kuala Lumpur.
   
6. He also gave some helpful advise on fire prevention in the home.
   
7. He advices his customers on how to make their homes beautiful.
   
8. What would you advise his wife to do?
   

Cambridge will be testing you on this!!!

to live - life

to save - safe

to bathe - bath

to license - licence

to affect- effect

ORDER!

The rule is that multiple adjectives are always ranked accordingly: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose. Unlike many laws of grammar or syntax, this one is virtually inviolable, even in informal speech.

  

Religious, Roman, beautiful, ancient, big, wooden, brown     artefact.

So, put the next adjectives into the correct order:

Page  85!

a beautiful, big, ancient, brown, Roman, wooden, religious artefact.

opinion, size, age, colour, origin, material, purpose

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