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B Answer the questions below. Discuss your answers with a partner.
1 How many different kinds of machine can you name?

2 What time do you turn off the lights and go to sleep?

3 What makes you tired?

4 Do you look like your mother or your father? How?

A Add -er or -r to each verb to create a new noun. Vocabulary Skill
Adding -eror -rto
Verb Noun Make New Words
1 dance
2 surf In English, we can
3 write add -erto verbs to
design make nouns. For
paint example, play+ er=
play player. If the noun or
7 read verb ends in e, we only
8 speak add an r. For example,
9 listen game+ r = gamer.
10 sing

B Use nouns from A to complete the sentences.
1 Tommy Hilfiger is a famous clothing designer
2 Marco is a . He goes to the beach almost every day.
3 Mia talks too much. She needs to be a better _______ _
4 Picasso and Monet are· famous ______ _
5 Wei Ping is a good _______ . Have you read any of her
stories?

C Do you know other words like the ones in A? Make a list. Compare your
list with a partner's.

Review your perfo.rmance. Review your answers to all of the reading comprehension and
vocabulary comprehension exercises in this unit. If you got any of the items incorrect, why do you think you did?

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