General English Level 1 GELEV1 Unit 02 Topic 04.doc  PRACTICE 04 Our new teacher 1. Read Mei’s story about Tom again. 2. Write the adjectives in the correct place without looking at the story. quiet interesting easy-going kind happy wonderful young Tom Hill is a new teacher at International College. He was born in 1965 and his birthday is September 25. Tom is a very 1.__________and friendly man. He always helps his students and likes to chat with them. Tom is 2. __________ and likes his students to call him by his first name. He is a good teacher and enjoys his work. His lessons are 3. ___________and his students think he is 4.__________ Tom is married. His wife’s name is Roberta. She is a doctor but she is not working now. She stays at home with their two 5. __________ daughters, Ellen and Natasha. Tom and his family live in Chatswood. They are very 6. ___________ there. It’s nice and 7.___________ and not far from the college. Tom loves swimming and sailing but he also likes working on his old car. In the evenings he relaxes with his family or works out at the gym. So Tom, welcome to our college.  LANGUAGE FOCUS 05 And, but, or Joining sentences with and, but and or Mei writes about Tom: He was born in 1965 and his birthday is September 25. His lessons are interesting and his students think he is wonderful. We use and to join sentences about the same topic or idea. Examples She likes swimming and she likes dancing too. The course is interesting and the teacher is nice. 101 QUESTLANGUAGE