Centro de Lenguas Extranjeras, Teacher Carlos

Session #4 order of Adjectives, April 10 2021

Jesús David Durango Mendoza
My name is: ___________________________________________ 10/04/2021
Date: _________________ Group: _______

ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

1 COMPLETE THE CATEGORIES WITH THE ADJECTIVES BELOW

Tasty Huge New Round Pink Japanese Leather

Fascinating Tiny Old Square Grey Spanish Plastic
Sad Wide fantastic Yellow Sweden Wooden
Small Wool
Metal

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The general order of the adjectives before a noun is the following:

opinion size shape condition age color pattern Origin material purpose noun

nice big - - new brown - Italian leather shopping bag

beautiful huge round clean old - Egyptian wooden dinning table

cute long - - - Ivory flowery French - evening gown

2 WHAT IS THE CORRECT ORDER TO DESCRIBE THE NOUNS?

Choose the correct order of adjectives: Put the words in the correct order!
1. He was wearing a ________ shirt.
1. OLD / YELLOW / A / BRITISH / SMALL / BOX.
o dirty old flannel A OLD SMALL YELLOW BRITISH BOX
o flannel old dirty 2. A / CAR / FAST / ITALIAN / NEW / RED.

o old dirty flannel 7

A FAST NEW RED ITALIAN CAR
3. WOODEN / A / BEAUTIFUL / TABLE / OLD.
2. Pass me the ________ cups.
A BEAUTIFUL OLD WOODEN TABLE.
o plastic big blue
o big blue plastic 4. IS / BORING / A / MATH / OLD / HE / TEACHER.

o big plastic blue HE TEACHER MATH IS BORING AND OLD

3. I used to drive an ________ car.

o red old German
Give four different types of adjectives in the correct
o red German old
order for each of the nouns given below.
o old red German
a) girl beautiful tall skinny old Spanish
4. He recently married a ________ woman.
b) car Expensive old italian
o young beautiful Greek

o beautiful young Greek c) cloud soft small fantastic white

o beautiful Greek young d) tree Tall Green chinese

e) Painting new fresh black metal

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USE THE ADJECTIVES IN BRACKETS TO COMPLETE THE SENTENCES

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TRANSLATE 5 OF THEM

EXAMPLE: He is looking for _a stylish black, leather_bag___ (leather / stylish / a /black) bag.

1. She dropped the beautiful old plate and it smashed. (old / beautiful / the) plate and it smashed.

2. I want an amazing green silk dress. (silk / green / an / amazing) dress.

T/: Seda, verde, hermoso, viejo, asombroso.

3. She drank not black Italian coffee (Italian / black / hot) coffee.

4. He saw an old writing french desk (French / writing / old / an) desk.

T/: Negro, escritorio, frances, italiano, viejo.

5. They stayed in a cute little cottage (little / a / cute) cottage.

6. I visited a spooky ancient German castle (ancient / a / spooky / German) castle.

T/: Lindo, escalofriante, antiguo, castillo.

7. He has beautiful old silver a ring (silver / old / beautiful / a) ring.

8. We ate some round green English apples (green / English / round / some) apples.

T/: Redonda, verde, plata, viejo, anillo.

9. I need a comfortable computer desk (computer / comfortable / a) desk.

10. They went on holiday to a beautiful small wooden cabin (small / wooden / a / beautiful) cabin.

T/: confortable, computadora, pequeña, madera, cabina.

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LOOK AT THE PICTURES AND USE DIFFERENT ADJECTIVES TO

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DESCRIBE THEM.

2 4 6

3 5 7

1. She is wearing a wonderful, long, new, red and silk dress .

2. The package of potatoes are yellow, medium and salty

3. The chair is Brown, comfortable and fancy

4. The motorcycle is red, fast and luxurious

5. The beach is wonderful, calm and warm

6. The dog is tender, loyal and cute

7. The computer is gray, moderm and fast.

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ASSESSMENT
Choose the correct order of adjectives in the following sentences.
1) The woman is wearing a ________ dress. 9) I am going to wear my ________ tie
A) yellow long to the wedding.
B) long yellow A) big cotton blue

2) He is a ________ man. B) blue big cotton

A) tall thin C) big blue cotton

B) thin tall 10) Please recycle those ________ bottles.

3) The company makes ________ products. A) three water empty

A) excellent farming B) three empty water

B) farming excellent C) water empty three

4) James recently departed on a ________ trip. 11) She packed her clothes in a _____ box.

A) camping long A) green flimsy cardboard

B) long camping B) flimsy green cardboard

C) cardboard flimsy Green
5) I love eating ________ strawberries.
A) red big 12) Their dog is a ________ shepherd.

B) big red A) brown big German

B) big brown German
6) The ________ woman did well on the test.
C) German big Brown
A) intelligent young
B) young intelligent 13) I am drinking from a ________ cup.

7) The ticket costs ________ dollars. A) small English tea

A) ten US B) tea small English

B) US ten C) English small tea

8) The scientists have found a ________ 14) My ________ teacher talks for hours!
cure for the disease. A) philosophy old boring
A) new great B) old philosophy boring
B) great new C) boring philosophy old
D) boring old philosophy

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