have any trouble in doing it, you can discuss you’re your partner. A
few minutes later, I'll check your answers. You can begin now.
Suggested answers:
surprised, amazing, interested, boring, surprised, exciting,
satisfied, interesting, disappointed
(Ss may make some mistakes, so teacher should give some explanations
after correcting the mistakes made by the students.)
T: To do this exercise well, we should know how to use some words
like interested/interesting, surprised / surprising correctly. To
say how we feel about something, we can use the past participles
interested, surprised, etc. To talk about the person or thing that
makes us feel interested, surprised, etc. we use present
participles. This kind of the past participles and the present
participles is used like adjectives to refer to a state or a
quality, not an action. For example, the story he told me is
interesting, and I am interested in it. Can you understand?
Ss: Yes.
T: There are some other past participles like interested an
surprising, you should remember.' They are excited, bored, worried,
frightened, tired, astonished, delighted, satisfied, amazed,
disappointed and so on. Most of them are used in the news of
Exercise 5. You should read the news again after class to further
study them. Do you remember?
Ss: Yes.
Step V Summary and Homework
T: Now, let's look at what we've learned in this period. First,