Unit 10: Adverbs and adjectives

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Adjectives and adverbs

Goal

By the end of this lesson you will be able to use adjectives (bijvoeglijke naamwoorden) & adverbs (bijwoorden) in English

Adjectives and adverbs

My dad is a 1 .................. driver (slow/fast/careful/ good)    

He drives 2 ...................... (slow/fast/careful/good)

Adele is a 3................. singer (good/beautiful/wonderful)

She sings 4................... (good/beautiful/wonderful)

Adjectives and adverbs

This is a quick runner. 

He runs very quickly. 

What is interesting about the words in bold? What do they refer to? (Waar verwijzen ze naar? )

Adjectives and adverbs

This is a quick runner. 

quick refers to runner (een zelfstandig naamwoord)

Jij kunt de vraag stellen: Wat voor?

He runs very quickly. 

quickly refers to runs (een werkwoord) 

Jij kunt de vraag stellen? Hoe?

Adjectives and adverbs

Adjectives: Refer to nouns

She is a good singer. 

Her voice is beautiful                                      

Adverbs: Refer to verbs, adjectives, adverbs, entire sentence

She sings well 

She is extremely beautiful 

She sings extremely beautifully

I can’t attend the party, unfortunately

Adjectives and adverbs

• Most adverbs are formed by adding -ly to the adjective

     beautifully, fluently

• If the adjective ends in -le we drop the e and add y : le-ly terrible - terribly

    horrible - horribly

• If the adjective adds in a consonant + y we change y to i and add ly
  

    easy - easily   happy - happily      lucky - luckily

   

Adjectives and adverbs

  Age or Length of Time 

  

 Should be hyphenated (met streepjes ertussen)  

  Sarah is a nine-year-old girl.

  a 30-minute walk

  a seven-week holiday

Sense verbs

Verbs like feel, sound, look, taste, appear and seem are called sense verbs. In English, we normally use sense verbs with adjectives (“I feel bad today”), not adverbs.

He feels ashamed.        It looks delicious           She seems happy

I dance.....

1. slowly
2. slow

Adjectives/adverbs:
Tom is.....

1. extremely talented
2. extreme talented

The students read the book

1. quiet
2. quietly

Adjectives and adverbs
She dances ......

1. wonderful
2. wonderfully

Lynn organized her birthday party

1. perfect
2. perfectly

Adjectives and adverbs
The concert is .....

1. terribly
2. terrible

I was ............ disappointed

1. terribly
2. terrible

Adjectives and adverbs
She talks.....

1. extremely loud
2. extremely loudly

My brother is a

1. seven year-old boy
2. seven - year old boy
3. seven-year-old boy
4. seven-year-old-boy

Adjectives and adverbs
She is a ...... teacher.

1. wonderful
2. wonderfully

Adjectives and adverbs
She skates ....

1. fastly
2. fast

Adjectives and adverbs
They make ......... bread.

1. delicious
2. deliciously

Adjectives and adverbs
The coffee smells ....

1. good
2. well

You speak English very

1. good
2. well

The dog smells .....

1. bad
2. badly

The soup is ......... creamy

1. delicious
2. deliciously

The perfume he is wearing smells ...

1. strong
2. strongly

I passed the test, I worked ....

1. hardly
2. hard

I can ........ wait for Christmas

1. hardly
2. hard

1.Have you reached this lesson's goal?
2. What have you learned? Give an example