INSTITUTO INTERNACIONAL DE IDIOMAS

FACULTAD SECCIONAL CHIQUINQUIRA

WORKSHEET - LEVEL 3

Topic: Adjectives Week: 2

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I. EXPLANATION:

Concept: An adjective is a word that goes and modifies a noun. Also, adjectives are words
that qualify characteristics of people, animals, things, cities, etc.
Examples:
The tall man A happy child

A dark Street A Spanish woman

The red ball The glass table

A cold Winter A furry animal

An elegant party The great landscape

II. GRAMMATICAL RULES

Adjectives before nouns
When adjectives come in a noun phrase they are normally immediately before the noun.
ALSO, the adjective can go after these verbs:

To be My mom is hardworking
To look He looks scared
To become Jason became a grumpy man
To seem She seems a nice person
To taste It tastes sweet
To feel Miguel feels hungry today

Categorizing the Adjectives

ADJECTIVE ORDER COMING BEFORE A NOUN:

EXAMPLES:
• It’s a small, rectangular, wooden box.
• I want to buy a stylish, black, woollen coat.
• She’s bought a gorgeous, light-brown, Swedish sofa

III. PRACTICING

A. Write Th<¿e Adjective in the Correct Order

Example:

Spanish/ beautiful / a / woman / young a beautiful young Spanish woman.

1. glass / a / round / small / Table ____a table small round glass____________

2. French / city / a / old / wonderful ___a city wonderful old French _____________

3. a / blue/ cotton / bath / towel / large / ___a towel large blue cotton bath__________

4. fat / brown / cats/ two ____two fat brow cats_______________

5. red / new / a / car / fast/ _____a fast new red car_________

6. day / a / cold / winter/ long _____a cold long winter day_________

7. small/ three / books/ black ______three small black books__________

8. big / red / a / apple / delicious/ _______a delicious big red apple__________

9. man / an / Canadian / old /intelligent _______an intelligent old Canadian man_________

10. wooden / a / chair / old / big ______a big old wooden chair_______
 IV. Homework: Create a list of 25 adjectives (the ones you use the most in your daily
life). Then, write a text of 10 lines to talk about a shopping experience you have had.

25 adjetives: hermosa, pequeño, grande, alto, corto, redondo , triangular ,

cuadrado , rectangular , cilíndrico , nuevo , viejo , antiguo , negro, rojo , verde ,
gris , violeta, blanco , japones , americano , chino , vidrio , metal , madera
beautiful, small, large, tall, short, round, triangular, square, rectangular, cylindrical,
new, old, antique, black, red, green, gray, purple, white, Japanese, American, Chinese,
glass, metal, wood

Yesterday I was in the supermarket with my family doing the end of the year
purchases, they delegated me to buy all the elementals and galguerías while they
bought the cleaning utensils I began to walk the aisles and there I found large, small,
short pasta , yellow, white, German and French, to which I decided to take the large
and French. Later I found instead of the oils where I took the largest, thick, clear
gourmet cooking oil, when I got to the meat area there were round, square, beef and
chicken, and in this case I had both types of meats, in the same way next to the meats
were the bags of rice, there were small, medium, large, national and international, to
which I decided to take national rice and finally pass through the candy sector, when I
got there I be pleasantly surprised to find wonderful, delicious, big, small, new, old,
round, square, red, green, black, yellow, French, Italian, American, Swiss, caramel,
chocolate sweets for after every dinner.

V. Evaluation: Select the correct options to complete the exercise.

1. Andrea had a nice yellow bow C. white small cat

in her hair yesterday.
A. nice yellow bow 3. I bought big great some
B. yellow nice bow oranges
C. bow nice yellow A. great some big
B. big great some
2. She lost a small white cat. C. some great big
A. small white cat
B. cat small white 4. We met very smart two people at the
conference.
A. very smart two
B. two very smart 8. The course you are interesting sounds
C. very two smart taking.
A. taking sounds interesting

5. The clown was wearing a big green and B. sounds interesting taking
yellow hat. C. interesting sounds taking
A. big green - yellow
B. big green and yellow
C. yellow and green big 9. My uncle wore a blue silk tie to the
wedding.

6. The cookies that you delicious smell A. silk blue tie

baked B. tie blue silk
A. smell delicious baked C. blue silk tie
B. baked smell delicious
C. delicious smell baked 10. Have you met that cute new boy next
door?

7. Is it getting cold outside? A. cute boy new

A. cold getting outside B. cute new boy

B. getting cold outside C. new boy cute

C. getting outside cold