Verbs of the senses

Verbs of the senses

Patricia Verdejo

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Questions About Senses

https://wordwall.net/es/resource/59844818/teens-3-questions-about-senses

When we talk about the impression something or someone gives us through the senses, we use:

Look, feel, smell, sound, taste

How we can use them:

1. + adjective 2. + like + noun 3. + as if/as though + a clause 4. Look/seem

1. + adjective

• When you use that cream your skin feels really smooth.
• When he talked to us sounded nervous.
• You look tired.
• That smells fantastic.
• The soup tasted a bit salty.

2. + Like + noun

• You look like your mother.
• This tastes like chicken, not pork.
• It sounds like thunder.
• The fabric feels like cotton.

3. + As if/as though + a clause

• She looked as if/ as though she had been crying.
• It sounds as if/ as though someone is triying to open the door.
• You sound as if you had a long party last night.
• You look as though you've just seen a ghost.

4. Look/seem

Note:

• We use look to describe specific impressions of someone's appearance.
• We use seem to describe a general impression.

• You look tired. Didn't you sleep enough last night?
• You seem to be a bit down today. Are you OK?
• The waiter seems to have made a mistake with the bill.
• Pablo looks very happy today.

Lets practice!

https://wordwall.net/es/resource/649865/senses

feel like

• Feel like can also be used as a verb meaning want/would like.
• Feel like + noun
• Feel like + verb

• I feel like going for a swim.
• "Are you coming to aerobics?" "No, I don't feel like it today."
• When you argue a lot, you can feel like ending the relationship
• Carla feels like fish for dinner today, what do you think?

As

As is often used:

• Before if to talk about how something appears, feels, sounds...
• You look as if you had seen a ghost.
• To describe job or function
• I worked as a waiter when I was a student.
• To compare people or things (as ... as)
• I can't run as fast as you.

As

• To give a reason (as = because)
• As you are the oldest, you can go first.
• To say that something happened while something was happening (as = when/at the same time)
• As they were leaving, the postman arrived.
• After such to give an example
• I like savoury foods, such as paella and lentils.

Lets practice!

https://wordwall.net/es/resource/16595454/verbs-of-the-senses

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