Lesson 4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Programme:

• Reading
• Placement test results
• Homework check 
• Compound adjectives
• -ed vs -ing words
  
• Time to work
• Speaking activity
• Finishing up 

Last lesson's goals

... will have practiced my speaking skill

... will know what adverbs and adjectives are

... will know the difference in use between adverbs and adjectives

... will know the difference in form between adverbs and adjectives

At the end of the lesson I...

... will know how well I still need to study the unit 1 vocabulary

... will know what compound adjectives are and how to form them

... will know the difference between -ed and -ing adjectives and how to use them

... have practised describing objects using adjectives

Unit 1

ambitious

bad-tempered

curious

verbazingwekkend

gloednieuw

redelijk

Explain in English: cottage

Explain in English: documentary

Homework

Grammar: Compound adjectives

Adjectives are words that give us extra information about nouns. Sometimes, a combination of 2 adjectives can give us a new adjective. We put a hyphen (-) in between

Good-looking car

Second-hand clothes

15-year-old boy

-ed vs -ing words

I am amazed

I am amazing

He is tired

He is tiring

Adverbs and adjectives

-ed words are usually about feelings and emotions

(she is tired, she is exhausted)

-ing words are usually about qualities or characteristics 

(she is tiring, she is exhausting)

your neighbour

Time to work

SB p. 12, ex. 3, 4 (notebook), 5

SB p. 13, ex. 9 and 10

WB p. ex. 5-8 (p. 6-8)

Study second half of the words (generous - yell)

Adjective descriptions

Work in pairs.  Come up with as many adjectives as you can to describe the picture. 

Think of at least 1 compound adjective for each picture

At the end of the lesson I...

... will know how well I still need to study the unit 1 vocabulary

... will know what compound adjectives are and how to form them

... will know the difference between -ed and -ing adjectives and how to use them

... have practised describing objects using adjectives

Time to work

SB p. 12, ex. 3, 4 (notebook), 5

SB p. 13, ex. 9 and 10

WB p. ex. 5-8 (p. 6-8)

Study second half of the words (generous - yell)