Breakthrough Unit 11

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Breakthrough Unit 11

What are adjectives?

What are nouns?

A: What’s your brother like?
B: Well, he is tall and slim. He has brown hair.

What are the adjectives?

A: Is he clever?
B: Yes, and he is funny.

What are the adjectives?

A: How old is he?
B: He is quite young.

What are the adjectives?

Positions of Adjectives in a Sentence

1. Adjectives can come before a noun.
2. Adjectives can come after verbs like: is, become, look, seem, stay.

• A young woman
• A tall tree

• The fresh fish is expensive
• This bed looks comfortable

Example Dialogue:

A: What’s your brother like? 

B: Well, he is tall and slim. He has brown hair. 

A: Is he clever? 

B: Yes, and he is funny. 

A: How old is he? 

B: He is quite young. 

A: Is he married? 

B: No, he is single. 

A: Is he rich? 

B: No, he is not very rich.

What is the Present Simple in Dutch called?

Examples Present Simple

• I eat pizza every week.
• You walk to school.
• He buys chocolate.
• We work in a factory.
• You all study English.
• They play football on Saturdays.

• He/she/it you add an -s

Verb ends in

• -s
• -sh
• -ch
• -x
• -o
• consonant + -y

Add

• -es
• -es
• -es
• -es
• -es
• -change y to i, than add -es

Example

• pass
• wish
• watch
• mix
• go/do
• carry

He/she/it ...

• passes
• wishes
• watches
• mixes
• goes/does
• carries