By Paul © 2010

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The lesson for today is 'adjectives', but What is an adjective? Let's see my explanation on the next slide.

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An adjective is a word used to express something or someone’s characteristics. For example:

This is a beautiful woman! (click here to listen)

This is a fantastic guitar!

Remember! You use adjectives to express people’s characteristics, but also characteristics the things have

My father has a very old car

I like my new car

Your cousin is very tall

He is a very short boy

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In English you have adjectives and also opposites which mean the opposite thing. For example: 'Strong' and 'Weak. Click on here to listen to some sentences where we can use these adjectives.

John is very strong, but Mark is quite weak.

Now you know what an adjective is, and understand what an opposite adjective is. Let’s learn more easy adjectivesAnd their opposite adjectives

Heavy Light

BeautifulUgly

Boring Funny

Now, click on here tolisten how to say each of these adjectives

ADJECTIVES OPPOSITES

Big

Small

Clean

Dirty

Eas

y

Har

d

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( )

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1

2

3

4

6

5

Put you cursor right on here and activate the menu, choose a marker or a pencil to write on the parentheses the correct number for each adjective. Then ask your teacher to correct your mistakes…If you have no mistakes… Well done!

Now , let’s match the pictures with the correct adjecives

Empty Full

There are many more adjectives to learn…

Betty, my cup is empty, your cup is full

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Long Short

That one is my pencil, and it is

too longThis is Betty’s pencil. It is too short

Wet

Dry

But these other are

dry

These clothes are wet…

Dry

It is too high

It is too low

Far

Close

That duck is too far from

me. This duck is too close to

me.

You also use adjectives to express someone’s or somethin’gs distance from you

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THAT’S ALL DEAR CHILDREN!!!

Thanks a lot for your attention. I hope you have had fun with this short lesson. Remember; English is very easy to larn. Blesses.

Betty