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English first additional language

Grade 5

Module 24

From designs to adjectives

ACTIVITY 1

TO ENCOURAGE OTHER GROUP MEMBERS TO SUPPORT FELLOW LEARNERS [LO 1.5.3]

TO TAKE PART IN A CONVERSATION ON A FAMILIAR TOPIC [LO 2.1.2]

TO IMAGINE AND DESCRIBE POSSIBILITIES [2.4.4]

Design a shoe!

  • Design and make a shoe, using only waste material.
  • Display the shoe to the rest of the class.
  • What is good about your design?
  • Where do you feel your design could improve?
  • Discuss these points within your group and with your class

Explain how you would go about redesigning the shoe to eliminate the weaknesses.

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Activity 2

TO USE ADJECTIVES AS COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

[LO 6.2.7]

1. DESCRIBING WORDS - Adjectives and Adverbs

Punk-cat, the ginger tomcat, gazes lovingly into Pasha’s green eyes.

She purrs happily, while flicking her long, fluffy tail slowly.

Find the describing words :

  • Underline all the nouns in RED.
  • Underline all the verbs in GREEN.
  • Find the words that tell us more about (describe) the nouns . Circle them in RED.
  • Find the words that tell us more about (describe) the verbs . Circle them in GREEN.

These describing words have special names.

A word that describes the noun is called an ADJECTIVE.

A word that modifies the verb is called an ADVERB.

2. ADJECTIVES - Let’s take a look at adjectives in greater detail.

Place the following words into the right ‘hats’ according to the right category:

MOVEMENT; EMOTIONS; SHAPE; TASTE; WEATHER; TOUCH; SMELL

slow round rectangular salty sweet
woolly bitter rapid square lonely
happy rough overcast sunny fast
oblong sour sad jerky smooth
triangular cold knobbly tasteless content

Could you manage to do that ? Have you realised that adjectives tell us more about the person, place, etc ?

3. Try this: Think of other words to use rather than ‘good’, ‘bad’ or ‘nice’.

  • The ________ woman bought the _______ and placed it into her ________ handbag.
  • A ________ worm peeped at me from the ________ apple in my lunchbox.
  • The _________ man walked down the _________ road.
  • The _______ child behaved badly when he kicked the

dog.

e. The __________ lady is reading a ________ book.

4. Which of the following two paragraphs is more interesting to read? Why?

Sonia Bata collects shoes as a hobby. These artefacts are stored in a building shaped like a box.

Sonia Bata collects various shoes as a fascinating hobby. These ancient artefacts are stored in an interesting building shaped like a rectangular box.

5. Expand the following sentence, using adjectives. (Tip: look for the nouns!)

The professor sold his invention to the manufacturer for a sum of money.

6. COMPARING ADJECTIVES

small smaller smallest
happy happier happiest

Three different forms of each word (small and happy) have been used.

How do I know when to use which form of the word?

CLUE : When comparing two , add _______ to the end of the word.

When comparing three or more, add ________ to the end of the word.

This will help!

  • Double the final consonant if it follows a short vowel, e.g. fat fa tt er fa tt est
  • In words ending in y , the y changes to i before adding – er or –est , e.g. happy happ ier happ iest .
  • If the word ends in e , only add –r or –st , e.g. pale, paler, palest.

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Source:  OpenStax, English first additional language grade 5. OpenStax CNX. Sep 22, 2009 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10992/1.2
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