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Slide1
Use Basic Adjectives
ELIT 14 – Episode 49
Slide2Use basic adjectives
Today’s
FABULOUS
lesson will be incredibly
USEFUL
at helping you
WONDERFUL
IT students to create
DETAILED
and
IMAGINATIVE
projects.
Slide3Adjectives
Adjectives
are ‘describing words.’
They tell us
more information about nouns
They specify such things as
how many, what kind, and which one.
Slide4Adjectives
Adjectives can be used in two ways:
They can be placed before nouns …..
…or after certain verbs.
Slide5Adjectives
Before the noun
‘Tom stood next to the
new
computer.’
OR
After verbs like seem, is and appear
’
‘The IT lecturer is
mad
.’
Slide6Adjectives
After the sense verbs (
feel, look, smell, taste, sound
)
Use these words in sentences
Slide7Adjectives
Examples
I
feel bad
about the delay
She
looks good
in blue.
This chicken curry
smells delicious
The food
tastes horrible
It
sounds good
to me.
Slide8Adjectives
Other verbs (
appear, become, remain, stay, seem
)
Use these words in sentences
Slide9Adjectives
Examples
You
become professional after the online course
Please
remain silent
in the IT lab.
Even if you get angry
stay calm
.
Slide10Adjectives
Task 1
You have 3 minutes to come up with your own sentences
u
sing these adjectives
After the verb
is, seem
or
appear
Hungry
magnificent
Slide11Adjectives
Examples
The boy is
hungry
.
It seems
a magnificent
opportunity for her to be selected for the online IT course.
He appears
happy
, though he is quiet about it.
Slide12Adjectives
More Examples
After the verb to be (am, is, was, were, been, being)
He
is strange
I
am slow
The response
was quick
We’ve
been
good
throughout
the course
She is
being naughty
.
Slide13Adjectives Task 2
Use the following adjectives before a noun
Complicated
Precious
interesting
Slide14Adjectives
Examples
It is a very
complicated
issue
.
she said, “ I am not ready to waste my
precious time
.”
Slide15Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
Comparative adjectives
are used when we
compare
one thing with another.
E.g. It is
warmer
today than yesterday.
It is
less warm
today than yesterday.
Superlative adjectives
are used when we compare more than two things.
E.g. Today is the
warmest
day of the week.
Today is the
least warm
day of the week
Slide16Adjectives – Comparative and superlative
With comparisons to a higher degree we add
–
est
and
–
er
, with comparisons to a lower degree we use
less
and
least
High
est
High
e
r
High
High
Less
high
Least
high
Slide17Adjectives
What if the adjective has more than two syllables
?
Interesting?
wonderful?
Miserable?
We simply use ‘more’ and ‘most’.
E.g.
Harry Potter is
more
interesting
than Lord of the Rings.
DELL computers are the
most
wonderful
computers in the world.
The weather in
Nuwara
Eliya
is
more miserable
than in
Colombo
Slide18Adjectives - Practice
Replace the adjective in brackets with the correct
comparative
form:
My old
computer room
is (
small
) than my current one.
His spelling is (
accurate
) than mine.
The new
IT lab
was (
good
) than the old one.
Slide19Adjectives - Practice
Replace the adjective in brackets with the correct
superlative
form:
That was the (
exciting
)
programme
I’ve ever watched.
The gap was the (
narrow
) she had ever
filled in the excel programme.
Fish and Chips is the (
bad
) meal for you.
Slide20Answers
My old computer room is (
smaller
)
than my current one.
His spelling is
more
accurate
) than mine.
The new IT lab was
(
better
)
than the old one
.
That was the
(most
exciting
) programme I’ve ever watched.
The gap was the
(
narrowest
)
she had ever filled in the excel programme.
Fish and Chips is the
(
worst
)
meal for you.
Slide21Order of adjectives
SIZE
TEXTURE
COLOUR
TYPE
Slide22Examples
The black big shiny computer (
X
)
The
big shiny black
computer (
√
)
Size texture
colour
Slide23Use basic adjectives
ELIT 14 – Episode 49