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English Elementary Plus

Study guide
Describing People and Objects

Shapes and Lines

Descriptions
Comparisons
Mathematical Operations
 Shapes and Lines

Everything has a shape or form and it is important to identify things by shapes

or forms, let’s think about some examples:

How is the coin?

How is the bill?
How is the table?
How is pyramids?
 Drag and Drop: Name each geometry figure.

Rectangl Pentagon
Triangle Square Hexagon
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HINT
Fill the gaps with true information

1. A triangle has got three ________and three ________

2. A rectangle has got __________sides and __________angles
3. A __________ has got three four sides and _________ angles
4. A ___________ has got five side and ____________ angles
5. A hexagon has got ____________ sides and ________ angles
DESCRIPTIONS: People always make description about different
feelings, things, situations, and so on. For that reason it is important
to know how make description and to know the adjectives.

Adjectives usually
Adjectives are words that describe or come in this order:
modify other words (nouns). They can General opinion
identify or quantify another person or thing Specific opinion
in the sentence. Adjectives are usually Size
positioned before the noun or the pronoun Shape
that they modify. Age
Color
Nationality
Material
EXAMPLES
It’s a big table. (size)
It’s a round table. (shape)
It’s an old table. (age)
It’s a brown table. (color)
It’s an English table. (origin)
It’s a wooden table. (material)
It’s a lovely table. (opinion)
It’s a broken table. (observation)
It’s a coffee table. (purpose)
 Example
My grandmother adopted a beautiful big white bulldog
Opinion size Color

Place the adjectives in the correct order

We took a ride on a,_____ _______ Nationality

_______ truck
Age Color Chinese
old
blue
 Remember there are two ways to describe something
VERB “BE” + ADJECTIVE

My riffle is black
My boots are new
ADJECTIVE + NOUN

Heavy MOLLE
Silver mess tray
 MATCHING AND REVIEW VOCABULRY
FIND THE OPPOSITE

1. slow • tall
2. boring • small
3. ugly • little
4. short • fast
5. smart • thin
6. large • fun
7. big • pretty
8. fat • dumb
 Tiger Story
A _____tiger wants to go to the annual jungle party, but a ______ jaguar gets in his way.

A _________ tiger feels so _________ because he/she has been invited to the annual
jungle party. The party is in a _________ part of the jungle, so he starts his trek
_________. As he ventures deeper into the _________ jungle, he sees many
_________ trees with _________ leaves and _________ flowers. The air smells
_________. The tiger walks _________ singing a _________ tune when all of a
sudden he hears a _________ sound. The tiger _________ stops _________. Through
the _________ leaves, he spies two _________ eyes _________ back at him. Tiger
starts to _________ _________ because he feels _________. Tiger _______
_________ forward as suddenly a _________ jaguar ________ out onto the path in
front of the tiger. In a _________ voice, the jaguar says, “____________________
__________________________________________________________________”
 PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

old brown-haired
tall
short young dark-haired
middle-aged ginger-haired
slim
bald blonde
thin
bald-headed brunette
fat
beard redhead
obese
moustache beautiful
well-built
long hair pretty
overweight
short hair handsome
medium height
straight hair ugly
well-dressed
curly hair
smart
fair-haired
scruffy
blond-haired
good-looking
attractive blonde-haired
 Formation of Comparative Adjectives

There are two ways to make or to "form" a comparative adjective:

short adjectives: add "-er"
long adjectives: use "more"

hort adjectives: add -er examples

1-syllable adjectives old, fast

2-syllable adjectives ending in -y happy, easy

RULE: add "-er" old → older

Variation: if the adjective ends in -e, just late → later

add -r

Variation: if the adjective ends in consonant, big → bigger

vowel, consonant, double the last consonant

Variation: if the adjective ends in -y, change happy → happier

the y to i
Long adjectives: use more examples
2-syllable adjectives not ending in -y modern, pleasant

all adjectives of 3 or more syllables expensive, intellectual

RULE: use "more" modern → more modern

expensive → more expensive

Certain adjectives have irregular forms in the comparative degrees:

Absolute Comparative

Good Better

Bad Worse

Little Less

Much/many/some More
We use than when we want to compare one thing
with another:

She is two years older than me.

New York is much bigger than Boston.
He is a better player than Ronaldo.
France is a bigger country than Britain.
 Superlative Adjectives
The superlative is used to say what thing, person, or
idea has the most of a particular quality within a group
or of its kind.
Don't forget that some adjectives are irregular:-
'good' becomes 'the best'
'bad' becomes 'the worst'
'far' becomes 'the furthest
!Note - Have you noticed that these superlatives are
preceded by 'the'.
"Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the
world." -
Form Rule For example
Add -st to the wide - widest
Words of one syllable ending in 'e'.
end of the word.
The Amazon River is the widest river in the world.
Double the
Words of one syllable, with one vowel consonant and
big - biggest
and one consonant at the end. add -est to the
end of the word.
In 2010 a dog called Giant George was given the title of the biggest dog in the world.
Words of one syllable, with more than
Add - est to the
one vowel or more than one consonant high - highest
end of the word.
at the end.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the word. (But it isn't the tallest mountain in the world.)
Change 'y' to 'i',
and add -est to
Words of two syllables, ending in 'y'. happy - happiest
the end of the
word.
In 2013 Australia was named the happiest country in the world.
Place 'the most'
Words of two syllables or more, not
before the beautiful - the most beautiful
ending in 'y'.
adjective.
Some people say that the Maldives have the most beautiful beaches in the world.
 Fill in the gaps with the comparative form of the
adjectives given

1. A rock is ____________ than a leaf. (heavy)

2. Our house is ____________ than yours. (big)
3. The princess is ____________ than the witch. (beautiful)
4. Tom is a ____________ student than Mary. (good)
5. Bicycles are ____________ than motorbikes. (safe)
6. July is ____________ than January. (hot)
7. A lion is ____________ than a cat. (dangerous)
8. Helen is ____________ than Mary. (happy)
9. Computers are ____________ than telephones. (expensive)
10. I think golf is ____________ than football. (boring)
 Fill in the gaps with the comparative or the superlative form of
the adjectives given

1. It is the ____________ shop in town. (large)

2. Monday is the ____________ day of the week. (bad)
3. Ben was the ____________ person in his family. (noisy)
4. Sam is the ____________ in the class. (popular)
5. Which is the ____________ subject at school? (difficult)
6. Jim is the ____________ player in the football team. (good)
7. Elephants are the ____________ animals. (heavy)
8. Let's pick the ____________ apple of the tree. (big)
9. Mary is the ____________ girl in the class. (thin)
10. That is the ____________ sofa in our house. (comfortable)
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