English Vocabulary in Use Pre-intermediate and Intermediate » Unit 63: Objects, materials, shapes and colour
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Objects: things you can see or touch
Materials: what something is made of or from
| object | material | description |
| 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 |
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.
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.
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