The Order OFAdjectives

Material Used Pictures & Music

Warm Up Describe the music you hear : Romantic Beautiful Slow

Romantic Place Beautiful Scene Light, orange leaves Blue stream Green stones Describe this picture:

Tall palm trees Awesome Sunset Quiet place

Ancient ruins Roman ruins Heavy, marble columns Huge columns

Chinese newspaper Difficult language

Describe each picture: Round,anniversary cake cake An old man Christmas tree White snow Square,wooden, chess board A paper, lunch bag

1. Did you see big, black, police dog? 2. She’s just bought a brand-new, red, sports car. 3. A fashionable,19th century, multicoloured dress. 4. A Japanese, gold, wedding ring. Look at these sentences and try to classify the adjectives 1. Size, colour and purpose 2. Age, colour and purpose 3. Opinion, age and colour 4. Origin, material, purpose

Romantic Beautiful Huge Tall OldsquaregreenChinesewoodenChess ancientRound Blue Roman Paper lunch anniversary quiet heavy Christmas Classify the adjectives listed on the board in this table

From the sentences we can conclude that: When you use more than one adjective before a noun, you have to put them in a certain order. The rules are complicated but here is the most usual order. Opinion Weight Age Shape Colour Origin Material Purpose NOUN Other A beautiful big oldroundgreen French wooden dinning table with ivory However we do not use more than three adjective together NB. Size Weight Size Shape Colour Origin Material Purpose Age Opinion

2. marble two-storey elegant villa 3. Antique pearl beautiful necklace Put the adjectives in the correct order 1. steep beautiful wooded hill steep,woodedhill.A beautiful, A beautifulantiquenecklace.pearl An elegant,two-storey,marblevilla. 4. Multi-coloured silk expensive carpet 4. An expensivemulti-colouredsilkcarpet

5. set of Venetian 17 th -century magnificent glasses 5. A set of magnificent, 17th-century, Venetian glasses. 6. lycra black fashionable cycling-suit 6. A fashionable, black, lycra cycling-suit. 7.modern gold attractive watch 7. An attractive, modern, gold watch. 8. the leather jacket has black crocodile attractive strap 8. The leather jacket has an attractive, black, crocodile strap. 9. this watch has round metal well-known rivets 9. This watch has a well-known, round, metal rivets. 10.this is yellow fashionable rubber frame 10. This is a fashionable, yellow, rubber frame

11. a table antique beautiful mahogany 11. A beautiful, antique, mahogany table. 12. a violin heavy Italian old 12. A heavy, old, Italian violin. 13. a necklace Cartier diamond brand-new 13. A brand-new, diamond, Cartier necklace. 14. a sofa green large Victorian 14. A large, green, Victorian sofa. 15. a vase blue porcelain lovely 15. A lovely, blue, porcelain vase

16. The car was big, old and purple. 17. The wild, golden, American eagle is tender and huge. 18. The tall, black, African president visited the Italian president. 19. Short and yellow, Mr. Yang was unable to find a job. 20. I’ve got a book which is (ancient cylendrical and small). 16. The car (old and big purple was). 17. The (wild American golden ) eagle is (huge tender and). 18. The (black African tall) president visited the Italian president. 19. (yellow short and) Mr. Yang was unable to find a job. 20. I’ve got a book which is small, ancient and cylendrical

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