28-10-2025-Order of adjectives

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 4

Today

•  Idiom test
• refreshing your knowledge of order adjectives
• seeing whether you can actively use adjectives yourself 

Today

1. Book Report / Idiom Test
2. Position and order of adjectives
3. Practice Test (Learnbeat)

Adjectives before a noun

famous old English writer

beautiful antique picture

impressive huge new building

1. new black expensive bag
2. expensive new black bag
3. expensive black new bag
4. new expensive black bag

1. new Italian small bag
2. small new Italian bag
3. Italian small new bag
4. new small Italian bag

Order of adjectives

Opinion  -  Size  -  Age  -  Colour  -  Origin  + Noun

O - S - A - C - O + N

expensive - small - new - black - Italian + bag

Remember!

Opinion  -  Size  -  Age  -  Colour  -  Origin  + Noun

O - S - A - C - O + N

Order of adjectives

O pinion	expensive	ugly	handsome	pretty
S ize	small	tiny	tall	big
A ge	new	old	young	ancient
C olour	black	red	orange	green
O rigin	Italian	German	Dutch	American
N oun	bag	car	man	monument

1. impressive huge French tower
2. French huge impressive tower
3. huge French impressive tower
4. impressive French huge tower

1. old immense grey tower
2. immense old grey tower
3. grey immense old tower
4. immense grey old tower

Adjective Order

Put the adjectives in the correct English order.

The ... ... ... ... ... ... tower.

1. French (origin)
2. Immense (size)
3. Old (age)
4. Grey (colour)
5. Impressive(opinion)

Put the adjectives in the correct English order.
The ... ... ... ... ... ... tower.

cheerful is a(n)

1. quality/opinion
2. age
3. origin
4. colour

is a(n)

1. size
2. shape
3. colour
4. origin

Position and order of adjectives

Student's Book

Read -> LEARN THIS! (p. 13)

Workbook

Do -> Exercise 1, 2, 3 (p. 12)

Adjectives after a linking verbs

(be, become, feel, get, look, seem, smell, sound, taste, etc.)

Her voice sounds fantastic.

subject + linking verb + predicate adjective

Mr. White was upset.

I feel tired.

He seems annoyed.

I got angry when he insulted me.

This meat tastes salty.

My blanket feels soft.

Position and order of adjectives

Workbook:

Read -> VOCAB BOOST! (p. 12)

Do -> Exercise 4, 5 (p. 12)

Position and order of adjectives

Student's Book

Do -> Exercise 7 (p. 13)

sleeping

angry

happy

alive

alone

annoyed

lonely

asleep

live

glad

Let's get to work!

Student's book: 

Read: LOOK OUT! (p. 13) 

Do: Ex 7. (p. 13)

Done

Done?! -> Workbook: Ex. 4-5 (p. 12)

Speaking

Say a sentence about your classmate 

and use minimum 4 adjectives:

O - S - A - C - O + N

Oefentoets

Go to  -> COOL CHeck

Start pincode: 

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To summarize 

Homework

1. Study for the Idiom Test
2. Ex. 4-5 page 12 (Workbook)

Homework

•  Study for the Chapter Test
  
• Ex. 4-5 page 12 (Workbook)