APIEVocabulary and Pronunciation: Friends and people
Friends and people
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How to use this lesson
For teachers:
Guide students through the words and give 20 minutes for practice. Review auto-graded items together and check student recordings.
For learners:
First, read each word and its memory tip in the table. Next, complete all 16 exercises and record your voice in the shadowing section.
Word table
| Word | Meaning | Common collocations | Example sentence | Memory tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) Describing a friend | ||||
| tall | high in height | tall person, very tall | My brother is tall. | Think of a tall tree with two 'l' letters like long trunks. |
| short | not tall | short hair, quite short | She is short and fast. | Contrast with tall: 'short' is a small word for not big. |
| hair | thin strands on your head | brown hair, long hair | He has dark hair. | Picture hair blowing in the air (hair rhymes with air). |
| eyes | parts of the face to see | blue eyes, big eyes | She has brown eyes. | The word 'eyes' has two 'e' letters like two looking eyes. |
| (2) Personality | ||||
| kind | nice and helpful | kind person, be kind | He is a kind friend. | King starts with K, and a good king is kind to people. |
| funny | makes you laugh | funny story, really funny | She tells funny jokes. | It comes from 'fun'. When you have fun, you smile. |
| shy | nervous with new people | shy boy, feel shy | The shy girl smiles. | Sounds like 'hush' or 'shh' because shy people stay quiet. |
| (3) Being friends | ||||
| friend | a person you like | best friend, make friends | Tom is my best friend. | A friend stays with you until the 'end' (fri-END). |
| together | with each other | play together, walk together | We study together. | Break it into parts: TO - GET - HER together. |
| meet | see someone for the first time or see someone at a place | meet friends, nice to meet you | Let us meet at two. | Two 'e' letters stand next to each other to meet. |
Practice
Choose words that go together.
1. Match the words to make natural pairs:
2. Match the words to make natural pairs:
3. Match the words to make natural pairs:
4. Match the words to make natural pairs:
Fill in the blanks using words from the box: [kind, meet, together, tall]
5. Amy: "Let us ___ at the park today."
____6. Ben: "My brother is very ___. He can reach the high shelf."
____7. Dan: "She helps everyone. She is so ___."
____8. Eva: "We always walk to school ___."
____Choose the best word for each sentence.
9. My brother plays basketball because he is very ___.
10. The boy does not speak to new people because he is ___.
11. Everyone laughs because Sarah is very ___.
12. Anna is my best ___ from school.
Put the words in the right order to make a sentence.
13. Words: [hair / has / short / she]
____14. Words: [blue / eyes / he / has]
____15. Words: [play / together / we / games]
____16. Words: [friends / meet / new / they]
____Shadowing
Listen to the English audio and record your voice.
Collocation 1:
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____Collocation 2:
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____Collocation 3:
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____Collocation 4:
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____Sentence 1:
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____Sentence 2:
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____Sentence 3:
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____Sentence 4:
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____Long sentence 1:
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____Long sentence 2:
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____Hard word 1:
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____Hard word 2:
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