GRO 11 lesson 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Welcome!

• Book of the week
• Recap of part I 
• Articles part II
• Work on assignments

Road map

• KLT
• War Poetry
• Block 2 - course outline
• GRO 

KLT 

• CITO -  norm
• herkansbaar 

War Poetry

Assessment grid 

War Poetry Assessment

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Chapter 11 - goal

At the end of this series of lessons you can: 

recognise

understand

apply

- adjectives in a sentence

- the English degrees of comparison

What is ....

an adjective ?

an adverb?

Examples

The fattest cat walked quietly towards the little bird.

It isn’t always easy to identify adjectives and adverbs!

Adjectives 

Tell you something about a noun or a pronoun

Place: before a noun or after it when you use a linking verb 

Linking verbs

connect the subject of a sentence  with words that describe or identify that subject =  adjectives (or adjective phrases) or nouns (or noun phrases).

Examples:

 be, become, seem, appear, smell, look, taste, sound, and feel. 

Adverbs

Tell you something about verbs, adjectives or situations.

Place: depending on the adverb!

(We'll get back to this!)

Adjectives 

Degrees of comparison

(Trappen van vergelijking)

Comparisons - vergelijkingen

Used to compare persons, animals, or things with one another

to compare with = used to compare persons/ animals, things of a similar order 

to compare to = used to compare things/persons/ animals of a different order ('Shall I compare thee to a summer's day').

Spot

Brownie

Degrees of comparison

De trappen van vergelijking:

1. Brownie is a small dog: small  = bijvoeglijk naamwoord.

2. Brownie is smaller than Spot.

3. Brownie is the smallest dog.

Zin 2 is de vergrotende trap. Daar heb je  'than' bij nodig.
Zin 3 is de overtreffende trap. Daar heb je 'the' bij nodig.

Comparisons

It's a cold day today.

It is definitely colder than it was yesterday.

The Met office said it is quite possibly the coldest day of the year.

1 lettergreep

- Vergrotende trap: woord +  -er

- Overtreffende trap: woord + -est

old

older

oldest

1 lettergreep: LET OP SPELLING

Bijvoeglijk naamwoorden die eindigen op een klinker + medeklinker:

Medeklinker verdubbelt.

hot > hotter > hottest

2 lettergrepen:                     more / most    - er / -est

                                                  

• emphasis on the first syllable: more/most

boring - more boring - most boring

cheerful - more cheerful - most cheerful

famous - more famous - most famous

• emphasis on the last syllable: -er / -est
  

polite - politer - politest 

Adjectives ending in:                 -ow, -le, -er, -some, - y

                                                  

-er and -est

narrow - narrower - narrowest

clever - cleverer - cleverest

silly - sillier  - silliest

Onregelmatige vormen

good - better - best

bad - worse - worst

few - fewer - fewest

little -  less - least

many - more - most

much - more - most

LET OP:

• the last = de laatste
• the latest = de nieuwste
• older /elder

Elder alleen bij vergelijking gezinsleden:

He is my elder brother.

He is the eldest of two brothers.

But: Josh is older than Mike.

DO

Do exercises 1 and 2 (pp. 130 ff)

   

Finished?

Read the theory on pp. 169 - 172

Do ex. 3, 4 and 5

Adjectives & Adverbs

recap

(Well, what do you know?)

Chapter 9

Study theory pp. 136 - 143

Do workbook ex. 6 - 8.