Lesson 18 - Adjectives (student work)

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

A small old blue car

Adjectives

Goals

•  You know what an adjective is.
• You can create adjectives from nouns.
• You know what order adjectives appear in.

What is an adjective?

Take a look at the following sentences:

They live in a beautiful house.

I bought a very nice dress.

Do you have a big car?

This glass is breakable.

I am not very old.

What is an adjective?

Take a look at the following sentences:

They live in a beautiful house.

I bought a very nice dress.

Do you have a big car?

This glass is breakable.

I am not very old.

• The yellow words are what we call an adjective.

Go to dictionary.com or vandale.nl and look up what an adjective is.
What is an adjective in Dutch?

Now that you know what an adjective is:

1. For the next 5 sentences, write down the adjectives in the sentence
2. Then write down what we use adjectives for. 

I met a homeless person in New York.

She wore a beautiful new dress.

Their wooden boat is pink.

My sister has a beautiful big white bulldog.

The old Italian restaurant is great.

What do we use adjectives for? Which word class (noun, verb, etc...) does an adjective change?

Creating adjectives (1)

So now we know that adjectives change the meaning of nouns:

She wore a red dress.

The word red says something about the noun dress, telling us what the dress looks like.

However, you can also create adjectives from nouns.

Creating adjectives (2)

Adjectives can be created from nouns, examples:

• Comfort -> Comfortable
• Accident -> Accidental
• Danger -> Dangerous
• Oil -> Oily
• Peace -> Peaceful

You most likely already know most of these words, they are quite common.

Which is the adjective?

1. Inventive
2. Invent
3. Invented

Which is the adjective

1. Happiness
2. Happily
3. Happy

Which is the adjective?

1. Laziness
2. Lazy
3. Lazily

Creating adjectives (3)

Some common adjective endings are:

1. -able/-ible understandable, capable, readable, incredible 
2. -al mathematical, functional, influential, chemical 
3. -ful beautiful, bashful, helpful, harmful 
4. -ic artistic, manic, rustic, terrific 
5. -ive submissive, intuitive, inventive, attractive 
6. -less sleeveless, hopeless, groundless, restless 
7. -ous gorgeous, dangerous, adventurous, fabulous

Turn the following words into adjectives:
magic, fun, friend, fame, music.

Order of adjectives (1)

Adjectives usually come in this order

Order of adjectives (2)

a

A general opinion can describe any noun

nice, great, amazing, bad, stupid

A specific opinion can only describe certain kinds of nouns

General opinion

Specific opinion

awful

strange

nasty

good

lovely

handsome

energetic

aching

Put the adjectives in the right order:
old, handsome, big

Put the adjectives in the right order:
wooden, ugly, red

Put the adjectives in the right order:
nice, tasty

Have we reached our goals?

• You know what an adjective is.
• You can create adjectives from nouns.
• You know what order adjectives appear in.

Change the nouns into adjectives and put them in the right order in the sentence:
I have a (new, beauty) couch and it's very (comfort).

Finished!

Homework: Finish all the slides in this lesson before the next class.