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English Vocabulary in Use Pre-Intermediate (Unit 63: Objects, materials, shapes and colour)


A. Objects1 and materials2

1 things you can see or touch
2 what something is made of or from

1 a bell metal used in hotel receptions
2 a chair wood an antique [an object that is old and often rare or beautiful]
3 a hat fur made from a real animal
4 a bone rubber a toy for dogs
5 a flag cloth, e.g. cotton the Italian national flag
6 a shirt cotton it has red stripes
7 a top silk beautifully soft and stylish
8 a sofa leather stylish [fashionable and attractive]
9 a ladder metal light and easy to carry
10 a tissue paper a soft piece of paper that you use for cleaning your nose
11 a bucket plastic used to clean floors

Language help

Most of the materials above can be adjectives or nouns, e.g. a cotton shirt, or a shirt made of cotton; a leather sofa, or a sofa made of leather. The exception is wood: a chair made of wood is a wooden chair.

B. Shapes and colours

Language help

When we want to say that a shape is ‘almost round’ or a colour is ‘a sort of green’, we can also express this idea with the suffix -ish, e.g. She had a roundish face; He wore a greenish tie.

Exercise-63.1


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