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Introduce ourselves
Today our topic is adjectives.
Taking Larsen-Freeman's Form Meaning and Use model to examine grammar we will start with the USE, then move on to the FORM which will be highlighted by examples to show MEANING.
First why do we need adjectives?
What do we use them for?
Adjectives are used to differentiate between nouns. They modify the noun and give us extra information about it. Adjectives are particularly used in advertising, literature, poetry and song.
Adjectives help us to paint a picture or a mental image in our minds of what something is like.
Take for example a famous book series that has been translated into more than 70 languages worldwide and made into a successful movie.
Today our topic is adjectives.
Taking Larsen-Freeman's Form Meaning and Use model to examine grammar we will start with the USE, then move on to the FORM which will be highlighted by examples to show MEANING.
First why do we need adjectives?
What do we use them for?
Adjectives are used to differentiate between nouns. They modify the noun and give us extra information about it. Adjectives are particularly used in advertising, literature, poetry and song.
Adjectives help us to paint a picture or a mental image in our minds of what something is like.
Take for example a famous book series that has been translated into more than 70 languages worldwide and made into a successful movie.
ADJECTIVES
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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ADJECTIVES
QUALIFY, DIFFERENTIATE AND MODIFY NOUNS
Introduce ourselves
Today our topic is adjectives.
Taking Larsen-Freeman's Form Meaning and Use model to examine grammar we will start with the USE, then move on to the FORM which will be highlighted by examples to show MEANING.
First why do we need adjectives?
What do we use them for?
Adjectives are used to differentiate between nouns. They modify the noun and give us extra information about it. Adjectives are particularly used in advertising, literature, poetry and song.
Adjectives help us to paint a picture or a mental image in our minds of what something is like.
Take for example a famous book series that has been translated into more than 70 languages worldwide and made into a successful movie.
Today our topic is adjectives.
Taking Larsen-Freeman's Form Meaning and Use model to examine grammar we will start with the USE, then move on to the FORM which will be highlighted by examples to show MEANING.
First why do we need adjectives?
What do we use them for?
Adjectives are used to differentiate between nouns. They modify the noun and give us extra information about it. Adjectives are particularly used in advertising, literature, poetry and song.
Adjectives help us to paint a picture or a mental image in our minds of what something is like.
Take for example a famous book series that has been translated into more than 70 languages worldwide and made into a successful movie.
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In the Harry Potter book series, the author JK ROWLING uses a treasure trove of adjectives to bring her stories and characters to life.
Lets now listen to an excerpt from the book that demonstrates how the author uses adjectives to describe to the reader her main character, Harry Potter.
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Lets now listen to an excerpt from the book that demonstrates how the author uses adjectives to describe to the reader her main character, Harry Potter.
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He lived in a cupboard. He wore clothes. He had a face, knees, hair and eyes. He wore glasses. He liked his scar.
Now if we remove all the adjectives from this description of Harry Potter we are left with
.......
which really doesn't tell us much or help us to create a picture or mental image of what he is really like.
Now that we have demonstrated why adjectives are important and the reason for using them, lets look more closely at what adjectives are.
Adjectives modify nouns and are necessary to make the meanings of sentences clearer or more exact.
They describe a noun by answering the following questions.
What kind is it?
How many are there?
Which one is it?
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ADJECTIVE TYPES
Descriptive
Numbering
Indefinite
Demonstrative
Distributive
Interrogative
Proper
Possessive
Here are some of the main types of adjectives.
Today, because of time limitations, we are going to concentrate on the descriptive and numbering adjectives as these are the ones we are using in our activity.
We have some handouts which outline the topic of adjectives and also give you examples of all the adjective types. Feel free to take one at the end of today's session.
OTHERS:
Numbering (1, 1st
Indefinite (any, each, few, many, some, several)
Demonstrative (this, that these, those)
Distributive (each, every, either, neither)
Interrogative (what, whose, which)
Proper (Mrs)
Possessive (my, your, her/his, its, our, their)
Today, because of time limitations, we are going to concentrate on the descriptive and numbering adjectives as these are the ones we are using in our activity.
We have some handouts which outline the topic of adjectives and also give you examples of all the adjective types. Feel free to take one at the end of today's session.
OTHERS:
Numbering (1, 1st
Indefinite (any, each, few, many, some, several)
Demonstrative (this, that these, those)
Distributive (each, every, either, neither)
Interrogative (what, whose, which)
Proper (Mrs)
Possessive (my, your, her/his, its, our, their)
DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
tell about the quality of nouns by referring to such things as
opinions, size, age, shape, colour, origins,
and materials.
Descriptive adjectives tell about the quality of nouns by referring to
opinions - beautiful, clean
size - large, small
age - young, old
shape - round,
colour - pink, blue
origin - Scottish
material - glass, plastic
opinions - beautiful, clean
size - large, small
age - young, old
shape - round,
colour - pink, blue
origin - Scottish
material - glass, plastic
Dudley had a LARGE, PINK face, SMALL, WATERY, BLUE eyes and THICK, BROWN hair that lay smoothly on his THICK, FAT head.
In this excerpt, JK Rowling uses adjectives to paint a picture of Dudley, another character from the Harry Potter series.
The descriptive adjectives, capitalised in this example, are used to give us information about a noun by referring to their SIZE, COLOUR, SHAPE.
Point out the nouns:
face, eyes, hair, head.
and their relevant adjectives.
So far we have listened to a description of Harry and read this description of Dudley.
With both these examples, JK Rowling use of descriptive adjectives has enabled her to create two totally different characters.
From comparing these two descriptions we can clearly see how A can qualify, differentiate and modify nouns.
The descriptive adjectives, capitalised in this example, are used to give us information about a noun by referring to their SIZE, COLOUR, SHAPE.
Point out the nouns:
face, eyes, hair, head.
and their relevant adjectives.
So far we have listened to a description of Harry and read this description of Dudley.
With both these examples, JK Rowling use of descriptive adjectives has enabled her to create two totally different characters.
From comparing these two descriptions we can clearly see how A can qualify, differentiate and modify nouns.
HOW CAN WE REMEMBER THE ORDER OF ADJECTIVES?
Number (hundreds)
Opinion (lonely)
Size (small)
Age (young)
Shape (thin)
Colour (black)
Origin (Scottish)
Material (glass)
NOSASh.COM
When we use more than one adjective to describe a noun, we must be aware of the correct adjective order.
This is an area of difficulty for some ESL students whose first language does not follow any adjective order.
In English, it is rare to use more than three adjectives at a time.
The generally accepted order can be remembered by the acronym NOSASh.COM
Hagrid had a mane of long shaggy black hair.
In this example
long (size)
come before
shaggy (shape)
comes before
black (colour)
long (size)
come before
shaggy (shape)
comes before
black (colour)
.
This chart is another way of representing NOSASH.COM to help with the ordering of adjectives. However, we would like to point out that this is a guide and not a hard and fast rule.
For example, when we place the adjectives on this chart to describe Dudley and Hagrid we realised that 'watery' was not easy to categorise. Also 'fat' and 'thick' are difficult to decide whether they are size or shape.
HOW ARE ADJECTIVES POSITIONED IN A
SENTENCE?
Attributive - adjective + noun
Predicative - noun + linking verb + adjective
We are going to move from talking about individual adjectives to how we would place them in a sentence.
When adjectives are positioned directly before a noun they are called attributive.
When they are positioned after a noun and follow a linking verb they are called predicative.
When adjectives are positioned directly before a noun they are called attributive.
When they are positioned after a noun and follow a linking verb they are called predicative.
ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES
The tiny gold snitch has little silver wings.
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ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECtIVES
You can see in this example that the adjectives tiny and gold come immediately before the noun snitch and the adjectives
little and silver come immediately before the noun wings.
They are examples of attributive adjectives.
ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECtIVES
You can see in this example that the adjectives tiny and gold come immediately before the noun snitch and the adjectives
little and silver come immediately before the noun wings.
They are examples of attributive adjectives.
PREDICATIVE ADJECTIVES
usually occur after the noun they modify.
They are used with the verb BE or other linking verbs such as seem, look, feel, become, grow etc.
In todays communicative task we are going to be focusing on predicative adjectives.
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The broomsticks are long and brown.
Here is an example of predicative adjectives.
Long, smooth and brown describe the noun broom but occur after the linking verb 'is'.
Other linking verbs include
seem
look
feel
become
grow
etc
Long, smooth and brown describe the noun broom but occur after the linking verb 'is'.
Other linking verbs include
seem
look
feel
become
grow
etc
POTENTIAL PROBLEMS FOR ESL STUDENTS
DUE TO THEIR L1
In some languages:
adjectives may take the plural form,
adjectives may be gender specific,
adjectives may not follow any listing order (like NOSASh.COM),
adjectives may take the form noun + adjective.
Some languages such as French may take a plural form and may be gender specific.
Some languages, such as Japanese, may not follow any listing order,
In Indonesian for example adjectives may take the form noun + adjective.
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What is in the box?
We are now going to transition into our activity which is aimed at a typical Year 5 ESL class in Australia.
We have previously looked at descriptive adjectives such as
size
shape
colour
number
materials
Today we are going to introduce a communicative activity that engages the students to use these descriptive adjectives in a meaningful context.....
WHAT'S IN THE BOX?
(No time for proper intro!)
'You are a friend will be given a box. What is in the box? Sssh it is a secret.'
LOOK AT TOY PICS.
Inside the box will be one of these toys. Is it a tiger?(place tiger labels on). Is it lego? (place lego labels on).
We have previously looked at descriptive adjectives such as
size
shape
colour
number
materials
Today we are going to introduce a communicative activity that engages the students to use these descriptive adjectives in a meaningful context.....
WHAT'S IN THE BOX?
(No time for proper intro!)
'You are a friend will be given a box. What is in the box? Sssh it is a secret.'
LOOK AT TOY PICS.
Inside the box will be one of these toys. Is it a tiger?(place tiger labels on). Is it lego? (place lego labels on).
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You and your friend look inside your box (don't take the toy out. Remember it is a secret!).
Fill in this sheet.
Name
I have something that is .....
Guess what it is!
Use descriptive adjectives (point to charts) to describe your toy.
EXAMPLE BOX
Jenny & Gilian demonstrate by using 3 descriptive adjectives to describe a toy in their box.
Guess what it is!
Answer: (from class).
Give pairs a box. Students discuss with their friend different adjectives. Record on sheet. Then read out to group their descriptive adjectives on their sheet.
Guess what it is!
Fill in this sheet.
Name
I have something that is .....
Guess what it is!
Use descriptive adjectives (point to charts) to describe your toy.
EXAMPLE BOX
Jenny & Gilian demonstrate by using 3 descriptive adjectives to describe a toy in their box.
Guess what it is!
Answer: (from class).
Give pairs a box. Students discuss with their friend different adjectives. Record on sheet. Then read out to group their descriptive adjectives on their sheet.
Guess what it is!
