Colour and light Describing colours Look at these letters to Home making magazine, asking for advice about colours eee eereen eee aa hale lor ges wel wi ever tres waies ec a7 Wa 09 ‘entre Br ny Da end ck the a olursdl Sh ye aha sre low My clogs a ol Tarp mee oc clus, My voi sk ge Eye) " alight coloue that snot bright o song? ot very bright Describing light Look at these extracts from short stores, where the writers describe dtfrent kinds of igh ‘Ara of sunlight fll on his face and ‘woke him Up. Wass am, Soon the ‘glare of the sun would make effet {osee his way across tne desert. He ‘had grown dark. the candle flickered and Bertram could se almost othing but suddenly » powerful beam Above he the star ewikled inthe ight tewas pitch dark when se lef the house, hy. Then she sw a pinoin of ight the bur by the cme se arrived 3 he beach, Glance, As she walked towards she the fant glow of down was vsble onthe eae it was aan ora bicel coming horizon The ty was aged with gold. ae Colour and light: metaphorical collocations The law about re-using pictues from the Interet seems tobe a grey ana. fan unclear ae Ths tp eo Brau certainly added colour to our rather boring lives My beeches ears alot about green issues and has volunteered todo conservation work. The govesnnent eid to blacken his name because he was crital of th polices, [destroy hie repuration) Tm hoping Vilar can shed throw some ight on what happened at work yesterday. explain Nips ills cast a shadow over our New Yea fly reunion, [made it ss hapovicherl Jim has always been under the shadow of his superinellgent site, [gt ls tention 90 Gh Caleevo n Use432 433 34 Exercises Look a A and choose the right collocation to complete each ofthese seers 1 Shocking pink, line green and orange ae very and personaly prefer to wear more 2 Fink Tl wear my dark Blue sweater and those grey wousers. The well gether 3 When I washed my red and whit football shi, che and its ruined now! 4 Tent think iis a good idea to weae a purple top with orange trousers ad eed shoes ~ the Teel, my opinion 5 Tike that rod brooch your black dress = it add a lovely 6 Sly son aways washes new jeans otha he before he wears them “Match the mo halves of each collocation. Lacande dak 2abam glow 3 pitch re Samar ofl 6 pale ndow a green faery tickers 9 cate ‘rinks 10 Hacken—es Rewrite each sentence using the word in brackets, so tha it keps the same meaning. 1 The police ate loking for someone who can explain how she acident happened. (St 2 He hs alwaye ben in an inferior positon to ie world-famous father, (HAD 3 Inthe eas the sky had some golden shades i i (EINE) 4 Joe's crazy behaviour certainly brightens up ov dulce. (COLOUR 3 Very bright sun can male driving diffe a ths time of day. (GLARE 6 She walked unl che fre was jostle ight ia the distance. (ren) 5 Dackness was falling and Jil began 0 fel a lise afraid. (GROWING) 5 The newspapets scm to be trying to destroy the minster’ reputation. (HLACKES) Now answer these questions about the collocation in exercise 43.2 1 What probably cause a candle to Hicker? 2 Abeam of ight soften used abou the beadlghs of car or the ight of a torch, What ‘anlar pase wed abour sunlight? 3 Would Jou use pitch black to describe someones ator the night? {St you sce ight 350 fn lon i i icely to bef away or nea yeu? 5 What isthe ference in meaning between ying tata war abines and a tar cles? & What kind of issues ae green issues? 5 What do you fe about something i you sy that tis a grey area? 8 What sort of thing might cet a shadow ove a special celebration? 93 TF Mark aceases Karen of blackening his name’, what has Karen done? 10 If something add colour to someone’ ie orto 4 sory, what happens the life oe the tory? wh Cacia Use