Monday, November 2, 2015
Announcements
• Units 19 and 20 this week
• EL CIVICS!!!
• Movie night this Friday- Real Women Have Curves
Agenda
• Looking at photos?
• Describing them
Unit 19
• Reading: pp 266
• Vocab chart
• Story
• Ask SS to pick an adverb for the week
Grammar charts (on board) underline
adjectives
• Maggie lives in a residential area with safe, quiet street.
• The house is perfect.
• The people seem friendly.
What is the area where Maggie lives like? (residential)
What are the streets like? (safe and quiet)
What is the house like? (perfect)
What are the people like? (friendly)
Grammar charts (on board)
• Words that describe or give information about the nouns are called
adjectives.
Adverbs
• Wakefield House apartments rent quickly.
How do Wakefield House apartments rent? (quickly)
Degree adverbs (on board)
• Wakefield House apartments rent very quickly.
How quickly do Wakefield House apartments (very quickly)
An adverb can also give more information about another adverb.
What are the two adverbs in the sentence?
Adverbs that describe adjectives
• The rent is surprisingly affordable.
Is the rent expensive or affordable?
How affordable is it?
Which is the adjective and which is the adverb?
Participial adjective
• The traffic is annoying.
• The tenant is annoyed by the traffic.
Words ending in –ing or –ed can be adjectives.
Which word are the adjectives.
What does annoying describe?
What does annoyed describe?
Word order of adjectives
• She lives in a residential beautiful area.
• She lives in a beautiful residential area.
When more than one adjective describes a noun, we can’t put them in
whatever order we want.
Look at p. 268
Note 1- On board (a)
• It’s in a residential area.
• The rooms are sunny.
• The place seems quiet.
• Underline the adjectives
• What does residential describe?
• What does sunny describe?
• What does quiet describe?
(note 1) Adverbs (b)
• You can walk safely through the park.
• They repaired the building extremely quickly.
• The rooms are really comfortably.
• What are the adverbs.
• What does safely describe?
• What does extremely describe?
• What does really describe?
What kind of word is walk?
What kind of word is quickly.
What kind of word is comfortable?
Note 2 (board)
• Maggie lives in a residential area.
• The house is perfect.
• The people seem friendly.
• Does residential come before or after the noun it describes (before).
• Do perfect and friendly come before the nouns? (no, after the verbs).
• Adjectives can also come after the be or other non-action verbs such
as seem or look.
C. An adverb usually goes right before
the adjective or adverb it describes
• Wakefield House apartments rent quickly.
• Wakefield House apartments rent very quickly.
• The rent is surprisingly affordable.
• Does quickly come before or after the adverb it describes?
• Does surprisingly come before or after the adjective it describes?
Be Careful!
• If the verb has no object, the adverb goes right after the verb.
• If a verb has an object, the adverb goes after the object.
She decorated the house beautifully.
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NOT She decorated beautifully the house.
Adverbs of manner describe or give more
information about action verbs
They decorated the apartment beautifully.
They rented it quickly.
a. Form most adverbs of manner by adding –ly to the adjective.
We need a quick decision.
You should decide quickly.
On board
• Beautiful
• Surprising
• Nice
• Complete
• Absolute
• Quick
• What other adverbs end in -ly
Be careful!!!
• Some adjectives also end in –ly.
Friendly, lonely, lovely, silly
• Some adverbs of manner also have a form without –ly (the same as
the adjective). This si more informal.
• He runs quickly. He runs quick.
• (diff)He is a good teacher.
He teaches... Well.
adj
adv
(same)He has an early breakfast.
He has breakfast early.
Note 3
• Early, fast, hard, late, and wrong have the same adjective and adverb
forms.
• She works late every day,
• She is always late.
• Hardly is not the adverb form of hard. Hardly means “almost not.”
• There is hardly enough room for a bed.
• Lately is not the adverb form of late. Lately means recently.
• We haven’t seen any nice houses lately. We’re getting discouraged.
Note 4
• Degree adverbs to make adjectives and other adverbs stronger or
weaker.
• It is absolutely perfect.
• It is fairly good.
Does absolutely make the adjective perfect stronger or weaker?
(stronger)
Does fairly make the adjective good stronger or weaker.
Not at all- totally not
• I didn’t eat at all today.
• I totally didn’t eat.
Word order for not at all.
• After a verb or verb + object
I didn’t clean the house at all.
• After or before an adjective or another adverb
She wasn’t happy at all.
She wasn’t at all happy.
Note 5
• Participle adjectives that end with ing or ed. They come from verbs.
•B
• Remember, participle adjectives often describe feelings.
• Interest
• The book is ________.
• Sally is __________ in the book.
• -ing adjectives describe the person or thing that causes a feeling (the
book) and the –ed adjective describes the person who has the feeling
(Sally)
• Appendix 11 page A-6 for a list of participle adjectives
Note 6
• Opinion
• Size
• Age
• Shape
• Color
• Origin
• Material
• Purpose
• Noun
Think of two adjectives for each category.
• Size categories
• A nice small leather bag
• A small nice leather bag.
• We don’t use commas between adjectives of different categories but
we use them between nouns of the same category.
• A charming old house (opinion + age)
• A charming, comfortable house (opinion + noun)
Exercises
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 9
• Exercise 11
• Exercise 13