Adjectives and adverbs

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Adjectives vs Adverbs

Repetition & exercises (15 min)

Bookwidget (15 min)

Online Buckle Up: Oefening adverbs & adjectives (20 min)

What do you remember?

Be creative!

Adjectives are used to give us information about...

Nouns!

beautiful hat (=> the hat)

black shoe (=> the shoe)

green coat (=> the coat)

blue pen (=> the pen)

Adverbs give us information about...

Verbs!

She drives quickly (=> to drive quickly)

He sings beautifully  (=> to sing beautifully)

They write slowly (=> to write slowly)

Adverbs 

She tasted the soup carefully. (=says something about the verb)

--> tasted = verb 

Adjective: careful

Adverb: carefully (adjective + ly)

She tasted the soup _________.
(careful)

Adverbs: uitzonderingen 

Fast (adjective): That's a fast car.

Fast (adverb): She walks fast.

Early (adjective): She was early for the meeting.

Early (adverb): He arrived early.

Adverbs: uitzonderingen 

Late (adjective): He is always late!

Late (adverb): He got up late this morning. 

Good (adjective): That is a good book.

Well (adverb): She did well on the exam 

Hard (adjective): Maths is hard!

Hard (adverb): She tried hard.

Which one is correct?

1. He speaks English terribely
2. He speaks English terribly
3. He speaks English terrible
4. He speaks English terribily

Which one is correct?

1. He speaks English good
2. He speaks English well

Adjective or adverb? 

He speaks English well. 

Well --> adverb, tells us something about the way he speaks English. 

He is good at English. 

Good --> adjective, tells us something about him (pronoun: he). He is good at... 

"I met a homeless person."
Homeless says something about...

1. I
2. met
3. person

"What a delicious taste of this apple."
Delicious says something about...

1. Taste
2. this
3. apple
4. what

"She read the letter carefully."
Carefully says something about...

1. She
2. read
3. letter

"We have to leave now."
Now says something about...

1. We
2. have
3. leave

"You have precious coins in your house!"
Precious says something about...

1. You
2. coins
3. have
4. house

Melanie quick / quickly ate her lunch

1. Quick
2. Quickly

She sings beautiful / beautifully

1. Beautiful
2. Beautifully

Fill in the BookWidget!
Make the Buckle Up exercise in the platform

Write a sentence with an adjective

Write a sentence with an adverb