3.3 Adjectives and adverbs

English home language

Grade 7

Module 12

Adjectives and adverbs

IntroducingDESCRIBING WORDS

Let’s quickly refresh our memories!

A noun is a _____________________

List the four different types of nouns and give an example of each one:

A verb is a ____________and describes _____________________ .

Let’s continue with describing words:

Read the two extracts below. Which one is more interesting and say why:

Yes, definitely number because

Let’s begin with ADJECTIVES:

Adjectives always describe the nouns, i.e. they give the reader more information about the noun and make what is being said or described more interesting.

1. Read extract number 2 again and highlight all the nouns.
2. Check with your partner that you have selected the correct words as nouns.
3. Now circle all the words used to describe the nouns.

Group work

1. Select one of the nouns given below. Think up five suitable and interesting adjectives for the noun.
2. Write a short paragraph or sentence on a large, separate piece of paper, using your words to be displayed in the classroom.

1. Match the adjectives in the first column with a suitable noun from the second column. Be able to use each pair of words in a sentence.

1. Fill suitable adjectives into the spaces provided.

1. A/An___________ teacher once assured the__________________

discoverer of relativity, then aged ten, “Einstein, you will never amount to

much.”

1. His______________ teacher called him ‘addled’, his __________________

father dismissed him as a ___________________dunce’, and his

_________________________school headmaster wrote that he ‘would never

make a success of anything’. It was only after his ______________________

mother took him under her wings that Thomas Edison began to show signs

that he would one day ‘invent’ the modern world, patenting over a thousand

________________inventions including the ________________________

light bulb and the gramophone.

(Adapted from Don’t quote me , By D Atjeo and J Green)

Find a magazine picture of an interesting or unusual face. Write a short piece (about 4 – 5 sentences) describing this face.

(OPPOSITE – ADJECTIVES)

1. Write down adjectives which are opposite in meaning to those in the given list:

Use one of these words in a good, clear sentence.

(FORMING – ADJECTIVES)

1. Form adjectives from the nouns in brackets: