2J adverbs & adjectives

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

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adverbs & adjectives

Lesson plan

• Individual reading (online)
• Homework check  
• Adjectives & adverbs 
• Practice LessonUp
• Homework tomorrow 

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Homework check

 ex. 3 & 4 p. 191-192

Adverbs & adjectives 

She is a beautiful girl

He sings beautifully

She is a beautiful girl

He sings beautifully

Adjectives (bijvoegelijk nw.)

An adjective describes something or somebody.

Adam is a good singer.

Frank has got a red car.

Adverbs (bijwoord)

Adverbs can describe other words. It answers the question How something is done.

Adverbs can describe:

VERBS

1. Frank sings beautifully 

2. My brother drives carefully. 

An adverb can describe: 

 AN ADJECTIVE

1. Frank is an extremely good singer.

2. My brother is an awfully careful driver.

3. It's an absolutely perfect video clip.

An adverb can describe:

ANOTHER ADVERB

1. Frank sings absolutely beautifully.

2. My brother drives really well.

3. That clip was filmed extremely perfectly. 

How are adverbs made

Most adverbs are made by putting -ly after the adjective     

Beautiful - beautifully

Sometimes the spelling is changed. 

Terrible - terribly

Easy - easily

Exceptions adverbs

good            well​

fast               fast​

hard             hard​

long              long​

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Pay attention! After the verbs: to be, to smell, to taste, to look, to feel ,to sound, to seem you get an adjective.​

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That music sounds good.​

You can ... open the box.

1. Easy
2. Easily
3. Easyly

He drives the car ...

1. Carefully
2. Careful

Jamie Oliver cooks ...

1. Fantastic
2. Fantasticly
3. Fantastically

Madonna is a ... singer.

1. Terribly
2. Terrible

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Homework tomorrow

ex. 8 & 9 p. 193-194