Lesson

ADJECTIVES

What is the name of the words that we use to describe the appearance of a place?
Dont you know the adjectives and how to use them?
Exercise 1: read the dialogue and underline the adjectives that describe a place. (5
points)

Adjectives usually come in this order:

General
opinion

Size

Beautiful Big

Shape

Age

Colour

Nationality Material

Circular

Old

Black

Chinese

Clock

Exercise 2: put the words in the correct order to make sentences. Use the
information from the box.
a) beautiful, My sister has/tan and white/ bulldog/ a big
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b) clock /A wonderful/Italian/ old
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c) A big/box./blue /square/
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d) A disgusting pink/ ornament/plastic

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e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)

ADJECTIVES

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Some /French new /slim /trousers
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Italian /A wonderful /clock/ old
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black / leather/I bought a pair of /shoes
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Really/ I love that/ old / antique / green/ car /big
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Intelligent/Nice/ young/ man/ He was a.
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Small/ wooden/ round/ black/ She had a/box.
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Exercise 3: Choose the most natural-sounding response.

1. He was wearing a ________ shirt.
a) dirty old flannel
b) flannel old dirty
c) old dirty flannel
2. Pass me the ________ cups.
a) plastic big blue
b) big blue plastic
c) big plastic blue
3. All the girls fell in love with the ________ teacher.
a) handsome new American
b) American new handsome
c) new handsome American
4. I used to drive ________ car.
a) a blue old German
b) an old German blue
c) an old blue German
5. He recently married a ________ woman.

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ADJECTIVES

a) young beautiful Greek

b) beautiful young Greek
c) beautiful Greek young
6. This is a ________ movie.
a) new Italian wonderful
b) wonderful Italian new
c) wonderful new Italian
7. She is a ________ supermodel.
a) beautiful slim Brazilian
b) Brazilian beautiful slim
c) slim Brazilian beautiful
8. its in the ________ container.
a) large blue metal
b) blue large metal
c) blue metal large
9. He sat behind a ________ desk.
a) big wooden brown
b) big brown wooden
c) wooden big brown
10. She gave him a ________ vase.
a) small Egyptian black
b) black Egyptian small
c) small black Egyptian

Heriberto Mendoza Fernandez