U5 Adjectives/adverbs

• Engels
• Secundair onderwijs

Read p 151

• Who liked the attraction the most?

• How many stars would they give?

• How do you know if they liked it or not?

Take a look at the underlined words. What are they?

Adjectives are used to give us information about ... and ....

ADJECTIVES

Give us information about a noun or pronouns

Longleat park is fantastic.                        Fantastic park
We saw some cute penguins                  Cute penguins

He was very nice                                          Nice person (He)

Give one more example from the text using the adjective and (pro)noun

some more examples

Which one is correct?

1. I was bored at the maths lesson
2. I was boring at the maths lesson
3. It was a boring maths lesson
4. It was a bored maths lesson

Adjectives with ed/ing
What is the difference?

Work in pairs, form two sentences. One with the -ed, the other with the -ing

What does this sentence mean.
'This lesson is fun'

What does this sentence mean?
'Mr Van Hijfte is a funny teacher'

Fun is an ... and funny is an ...

Adverbs give us information about...

How do you form an adverb of manner?

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. We happily walked outside.
2. We happy walked outside.
3. We happyly walked outside

Which one is correct?

1. He enthusiasticly opened the door
2. He enthusiastic opened the door
3. He enthousiastically opened the door
4. He enthusiasticelly opened the door

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 is an adjective, tells us something about him. He is good at...

Which one is correct?

1. They arrived late for the party
2. They arrived lately for the party

Adjective or adverb?

Lately: recent, de laatste tijd

late: adjective  He was 10 minutes late.

late: adverb       I got up late.

Which one is correct?

1. The car drove fast on the road.
2. The car drove fastly on the road.

Which one is correct?

1. We work hard for school.
2. We work hardly for school.
3. We hardly work for school.

Exceptions

• late= adjective and adverb

lately= recent

• fast= adjective and adverb

fastly= doesn't exist

• Hard= adjective and adverb

Hardly= nauwelijks (adverb)