Chapter 11 Adjectives and Adverbs

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

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War Poetry

Niet iedereen heeft een eigen gedicht uitgekozen voor opdracht 14. We hebben afgesproken dat jullie alsnog de gelegenheid krijgen om die in te leveren. 

Doe dit via het inleverbakje op SOM voor 6 december a.s.!

BBC One minute world news

• Watch the clip
• What are the two/three topics that are being discussed? 
• What is your idea/opinion about .....be prepared to talk about them! 

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Lesson Goal

At the end of this class you can:

recognise 

understand

apply 

• adjectives in a sentence
• the English degrees of comparison

What is ....

an adjective ?

an adverb?

Example

The 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 like 'to be', 'to become', to seem' etc. 

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 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.

Homework

Do exercises 1 and 2 

Finished? 

Read the theory on pp. 169 - 172 

Do ex. 3, 4 and 5