4.5 From design to adjectives

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.

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  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

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

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.