Adjectives

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A small old blue car
Adjectives

Slide 1 - Slide

Goals
  •  You know what an adjective is.
  • You can create adjectives from nouns.
  • You know what order adjectives appear in.

Slide 2 - Slide

What is an adjective?
Take a look at the following sentences:
They live in a beautiful house.
I bought a very nice dress.
Do you have a big car?
This glass is breakable.
I am not very old.

Slide 3 - Slide

What is an adjective?
Take a look at the following sentences:
They live in a beautiful house.
I bought a very nice dress.
Do you have a big car?
This glass is breakable.
I am not very old.
  • The yellow words are what we call an adjective.

Slide 4 - Slide


What is an adjective in Dutch?

Slide 5 - Open question

Now that you know what an adjective is:
  1. For the next 5 sentences, write down the adjectives in the sentence
  2. Then write down what we use adjectives for. 

Slide 6 - Slide

I met a homeless person in New York.

Slide 7 - Open question

She wore a beautiful new dress.

Slide 8 - Open question

Their wooden boat is pink.

Slide 9 - Open question

My sister has a beautiful big white bulldog.

Slide 10 - Open question

The old Italian restaurant is great.

Slide 11 - Open question

What do we use adjectives for? Which word class (noun, verb, etc...) does an adjective change?

Slide 12 - Open question

Creating adjectives (1)
So now we know that adjectives change the meaning of nouns:

She wore a red dress.
The word red says something about the noun dress, telling us what the dress looks like.

However, you can also create adjectives from nouns.

Slide 13 - Slide

Creating adjectives (2)
Adjectives can be created from nouns, examples:
  • Comfort -> Comfortable
  • Accident -> Accidental
  • Danger -> Dangerous
  • Oil -> Oily
  • Peace -> Peaceful

You most likely already know most of these words, they are quite common.

Slide 14 - Slide

Which is the adjective?
A
Inventive
B
Invent
C
Invented

Slide 15 - Quiz

Which is the adjective
A
Happiness
B
Happily
C
Happy

Slide 16 - Quiz

Which is the adjective?
A
Laziness
B
Lazy
C
Lazily

Slide 17 - Quiz

Creating adjectives (3)
Some common adjective endings are:
  1. -able/-ible understandable, capable, readable, incredible 
  2. -al mathematical, functional, influential, chemical 
  3. -ful beautiful, bashful, helpful, harmful 
  4. -ic artistic, manic, rustic, terrific 
  5. -ive submissive, intuitive, inventive, attractive 
  6. -less sleeveless, hopeless, groundless, restless 
  7. -ous gorgeous, dangerous, adventurous, fabulous

Slide 18 - Slide

Turn the following words into adjectives:
magic, fun, friend, fame, music, belief, effect.

Slide 19 - Open question

Adjectives come in this order: 

Opinion
Size
Shape
Condition
Age 
Colour
Pattern
Origin
Material
Purpose
Pretty
Big
Round
Broken
Old
Red
Striped
Dutch
Leather
Driving

Slide 20 - Slide

Put the adjectives in the right order:
old, handsome, big

Slide 21 - Open question

Which is the correct order of adjectives?
A
These new, chunky, black shoes hurt my feet.
B
These black, chunky, new shoes hurt my feet.

Slide 22 - Quiz

Which is the correct order of adjectives?
A
We listened to a Russian 200-year-old exciting symphony.
B
We listened to an exciting, 200-year-old Russian symphony.

Slide 23 - Quiz

Which is the correct order of adjectives?
A
I picked up the yellow three tallest flowers for my banquet.
B
I picked the three tallest yellow flowers for my bouquet.

Slide 24 - Quiz

What is the correct order of adjectives?
A
size opinion shape age colour material
B
age opinion size shape colour material
C
opinion size shape age colour material
D
material opinion size shape age colour

Slide 25 - Quiz

What is the correct order of adjectives?
A
Our teacher is an old mean person
B
Our teacher is a mean old person

Slide 26 - Quiz

Which order of adjectives is correct?
A
Stephen King is my favourite horror American writer
B
Stephen King is my American favourite horror writer
C
Stephen King is my favourite American horror writer

Slide 27 - Quiz

Opinion
Condition
Shape
Age
Origin
Pattern
Colour
Lovely
Ancient
Broken
Delicious
Flowered
American
Purple
Oval

Slide 28 - Drag question

Change the nouns into adjectives and put them in the right order in the sentence:
I have a (new, beauty) couch and it's very (comfort).

Slide 29 - Open question

Have we reached our goals?
  • You know what an adjective is.
  • You can create adjectives from nouns.
  • You know what order adjectives appear in.

Slide 30 - Slide