New Treasure Plus (Third Edition) 1A Unit 1

1 Nice to meet you!

Describing appearance

chubby curly fit

fringe muscular pointy chin

ponytail round slim

straight hair wavy wear glasses

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Vocabulary in action
1 Tammy is a little chubby because she likes eating snacks.
2 Alison has beautiful curly hair.
3 Mark exercises every day, so he is very fit.
4 Janice asked the hairdresser to give her a fringe.
5 The people at this gym are very muscular.
6 Todd feels embarrassed about his pointy chin.
7 Kim likes to wear her hair in a ponytail.
8 The baby has a very cute and round face.
9 Jill is exercising more because she wants to be slim.
10 Most of the students in the class have straight hair.
11 The model in the shampoo commercial has wavy hair.
12 I wear glasses to see things that are far away.

Practice
Write a sentence for each of the words below.

1 chubby

2 fit

3 fringe

4 muscular

5 ponytail

6 round

7 straight hair

8 wear glasses

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Describing personality

adventurous bossy cheerful

competitive curious easy-going

energetic friendly kind

polite shy talkative

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Vocabulary in action
1 Amy is adventurous. She loves going to new places and trying
new things.
2 Ms Lam is bossy. She tells everyone what to do.
3 Larry is cheerful because he got a nice gift.
4 The children are competitive. They all want to win.
5 Babies are so curious. They always want to learn more.
6 Phil is easy-going. He doesn’t worry about many things.
7 The children are energetic because of the summer holidays.
8 Kate is friendly to all of her classmates.
9 Jeff is kind. He is helping the old man cross the road.
10 Brian is always polite to everyone he meets.
11 Kevin is shy. He doesn’t like meeting new people.
12 Mandy is talkative. She talks on the phone for hours.

Practice
You are writing a diary entry about some of your new classmates.
Complete the diary entry with the correct words describing
personality.

Dear Diary,

I have many interesting new classmates this year. James is quite

(1) ___________________. He always wants to win in everything.

Paul is much more (2) ___________________. He doesn’t seem to

worry about anything at all. Linda seems a little

(3) ___________________. She doesn’t speak much. Diane is the

complete opposite. She is so (4) ___________________! She always

has something say.

I think my new best friend this year is Alan. He is so

(5) ___________________. He always has a smile on his face. Also,

he is very (6) ___________________. He often goes hiking in the

mountains or surfing in the sea!

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Understanding parts of speech

Parts of speech are categories of words. For example, nouns, pronouns,

verbs, adjectives and adverbs are different parts of speech.

Type Definition Examples

noun a person, place, appearance

quality, thing or classroom

activity hiking

pencil

teacher

pronoun a word that takes the I

place of a noun we

he

she

they

verb an action or a state run

think

adjective a word that bossy

describes a noun funny

happy

slim

adverb a word that high

describes a verb or loudly

adjective quietly

softly

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Vocabulary in action
1 The doctor gave me some medicine.
2 No one can hear the speaker. She is speaking too quietly.
3 Let’s go to the restaurant for dinner.
4 The pencil is yellow. It is on the desk.
5 Mindy is a very kind girl.
6 The dog wags its tail because it is happy.
7 I don’t remember meeting him before.
8 We are going to the museum this afternoon.
9 The athlete jumps very high.
10 Ivan is too shy to talk to his classmates.
11 Sally enjoys walking in the morning.
12 The children are playing happily on the playground.

Practice
Identify the part of speech of the words in bold in the sentences
above. Write the correct part of speech on the lines.

1 doctor _________________

2 quietly _________________

3 restaurant _________________

4 It _________________

5 kind _________________

6 wags _________________

7 remember _________________

8 We _________________

9 jumps _________________

10 shy _________________

11 walking _________________

12 happily _________________

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Know the text type

Personal description

Michael Ko
All about me
Basic Hello! My name is Michael Ko and I’m 13 years
information old. I am slim and I have straight hair. I am fit, but Appearance
about the not very muscular. I have a younger sister. She is
person
11 years old. Our family lives in Sha Tin.
I like playing chess. I am a member of the school
Chess Club. I won two chess tournaments last
year! I am a very competitive person, but I am
also quite shy, so chess is the perfect game for Personality
me. I often watch chess tutorials on YouTube to
help me improve my game.

Hobbies My other hobby is hiking. At the weekend, I

usually go for a hike with my family. My family
and I are energetic and adventurous, so hiking is
a good hobby for us. Our favourite place to hike
is Lamma Island. It is a very peaceful and
beautiful place.

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Writing task
You are writing a personal description for your blog. Write your personal
description in about 100 words. You can use the vocabulary, language
patterns and language features below to help you.

Useful vocabulary and expressions

Words to talk Hobbies Adjectives to
about talk about
appearance personality

chubby going hiking/travelling adventurous

fit photography/arts and crafts cheerful
ponytail playing the flute/guitar/violin competitive
side part playing football/basketball/ creative
slim badminton forgetful
well-built skateboarding/rollerblading relaxed

Useful phrases and expressions

My name is … I have a …

Another thing I like to do is … I like to …

At the weekend/In the summer, I …

Language patterns
Study the language patterns below. Then write a sentence using each
language pattern for the personal description.

• Describing appearance:
Subject (S) + Verb (V) + Object (O)/Subject (S) + Verb (V) +
Adjective (ADJ)
I (S) am (V) slim (ADJ). I (S) have (V) straight hair (O).

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• Talking about hobbies:

Subject (S) + Verb (V) + Object (O)
I (S) like (V) hiking (O).

Language features
Identify the language items in the text on page 8.
Language item
Simple present tense
My name is Michael Ko and
I’m 13 years old.
Adverbs of frequency
I often watch chess tutorials
on YouTube to help me
improve my game.
Function
• to give facts about yourself, e.g.
age, appearance, birth order and
personality
• to talk about your hobbies
• to describe people’s opinions
about you
• to talk about your habits and how
often you do these activities

Writing tips
Use a friendly and casual tone.
Use the simple present tense to talk about your appearance,
personality and hobbies.
Use adverbs of frequency and time words to talk about how
often you do something.
Remember that the purpose of a personal description is to help
people know more about you.

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Unit 1 learning resources

Item Page QR Code

Unit opening video 1

Setting objectives 2

Text 1 Audio 4

Text 2 Audio 6

Text 2 Interactive Video 6

Text 3 Audio 8

Flash Card Learning Tools 11

Grammar additional activity 14

(Simple present tense)

Grammar additional activity 16

(Adverbs of frequency)

Grammar additional activity 17

(Definite and indefinite articles)

Grammar additional activity 18

(Personal pronouns)

Sample Writing 23

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