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2. Do you remember the colours of a rainbow?

3. red orange yellow green blue indigo violet

4. calm What’s your feeling when you see these colours? warm

5. energetic strong

6. How do the colors you wear affect you? romantic passion ate

7. intelligent inspired.

8. peaceful simple clean

9. peaceful calming relaxed

10. powerful serious duty

11. Try to give more words about moods. The group which can give the most words will be the winner!

12. happy, sad energetic strong comfortable tiredcalm warm stressed peaceful satisfied relaxed jealous moods

13. He initiates the four-color personality analysis in China. Who is he? Le Jia, a host.

14. Le Jia divided people into four colors: red, blue, yellow, green, and each color represents each a characteristic; then he did further analysis.

15. Read the text quickly. Then answer the questions. 1.How many kinds of colours are talked about in the text? 2. What are they? Four. They are calm colours, warm colours, energetic colours and strong colours.

16. Read the text carefully and answer the following questions.

17. 1.Is wearing blue clothes good for our mind and body? Why? 2. What colour do many women like to wear on their wedding day? Why? Yes, it is. Because it brings peace to our mind and body. White. Because white is the colour of purity.

18. 1.How do you feel when you see orange? 2. How can orange help and what does it represent? 3. How do you feel when you see yellow and what does it represent? It makes me feel warm. It can cheer you up when you are feeling sad. It represents joy. Warm and sunny. It represents wisdom.

19. 1.What colour can give you energy? Why? 2.What does “Someone is green with envy” mean? It means that he or she is full of envy. Green. Because it is the colour of nature and represents new life.

20. 1.Who should wear red clothes? 2.What does Red represent? 3.If you are having difficulty making a decision, what colour can you wear? Anyone who requires strength in either body or mind. Power and strong feelings. Red.

21. Kinds of coloursDifferent colours Warm colours Calm colours blue and white orange and yellow Energetic colours Strong colours green red Read the text and fill in the table.

22. 1.Different colours may represent different characteristics. 2. Blue is a calm colour. It can create the feeling of envy. 3. You should wear green clothes if you are feeling stressed. 4. Orange is one of the warm colours. It represents joy. Listen again and do T or F. T F F T

23. 5. People in cold climates prefer blue to yellow. 6. It’s good to use a yellow stationery when you study for exams. 7. Yellow can give you energy, as it represents new life and growth. 8. If you are somebody who requires strength, you should wear red clothes. T F T F

24. You may say like this: The main colours of the picture are blue and white. They are calm colours. They can make us feel relaxed, calm, peaceful, … Tell me your feeling after looking at the pictures, paying attention to the colours. Read, learn and say.

25. You may say like this: The main colour of the picture is …; it is a calm / warm colour; it can make us feel …; it represents … Kinds of colours Different colours What the colours represent Warm colours orange and yellow warm, happy, comfortable, joy, success, wisdom

26. The main colour of the picture is …; it is a … colour; it can make us feel …; it represents …; it’s the colour of … Kinds of colours Different colours What the colours represent Energetic colours green energetic, new life, growth, nature, envy

27. The main colour of the picture is …; it is a … colour; it represents …; it is the colour of … Kinds of colours Different colours What the colours represent Strong colours red strength, power, heat, strong feelings

28. What do the colours represent? A: What does blue represent? B: Blue represents calm. wisdom nature power purity joy calm

29. Read the text again and write down what the different colours represent. calm colours peace sadness calm purity

30. warm colours joy warm warm wisdom energetic colours energy nature new life envy strong colours power strong feelings

31. joy wisdom purity new life calm power Match the colours with what they represent.

32. This article tells us something about the relationship between _________ and ________. ________ and _________ are calm colours because they make you feel calm and __________. Blue can also represent ____________, and white is the colour of ________. ___________ represents joy, and __________ is the colour of ___________. They are _________ colours. Complete the passage. coloursmoods Bluewhite peaceful sadness purityOrange yellow wisdom warm

33. _______ is an energetic colour. It represents ___________ because it is the colour of___________. It is also the colour of ___________. Red is a ____________ colour. It represents ___________, __________and strong feelings. Green new life nature envy strong powerheat

34. 1.This picture often ________ me of that meeting. 2. Which colour __________ new life and growth? mood; explain; represent; relaxed; cheer…up; remind reminds represents Can you solve the word puzzle? Exercise

35. 3. The girl is a little bit blue today. Let’s go to her and _________ her _________. 4. Don’t play jokes on him. He is in a bad __________ today. 5. Could you __________ why you were late again? 6. When I go home from work, I usually feel very ________. cheer up mood explain relaxed

36. The world is full of colors. Without colors, the world would be a far less interesting place. Which color do you like best and why? Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Purple Cyan

37. My favourite colour is______. It represents_________________________ ____________________. I like it because ______________________ ____________________________________. I am _______________________ (your characteristics). I think / don’t think my favourite colour matches my characteristics. red strength, power, heat it can help me when lively, funny and strong and strong feelings I am having difficult making a decision