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PRCTICA GRAMATICAL
OVERVIEW
OBJECTIVES OF THIS CLASS
LEAD IN
PRELIMINARY ACTIVITY
PRACTICE
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITY
CONSULTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
LEAD IN
Complete the chart about adjectives and adverbs using your previous
knowledge and the given examples.
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
My house is a
The
students
_____________________.
_________________
were
_____________
Theyre
playing
____________________
_____________
SENTENCE There
POSITION
___________________
was
___________________
______________________
___________________
The
The
idea
from
children
are
playing
___________
___________________
came
___________________
___________________
____________
May.
_______________
The
train
______________________late.
She ___________________ kind to me.
PRELIMINARY ACTIVITY
Read the following sets of sentences and identify the part of speech of the
words in bold. Justify your answer orally.
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
The
government
will
be
free
to
pursue
its
economic
policies.
__________________________
His nose was thin and sharp.
__________________________
Throw the ball as high as you can.1
__________________________
I trained really hard for the marathon. 1
__________________________
__________________________
PRACTICE
a) Look up the following words in the dictionary. Copy one sentence in
which the word has been used as an adjective and another one in which it
has been used as an adverb.
alike
1)_______________________________________________________________________
2)______________________________________________________________________
_
full-time
1)_______________________________________________________________________
2)______________________________________________________________________
_
pretty
1)_______________________________________________________________________
2)_______________________________________________________________________
well
1)_______________________________________________________________________
2)_______________________________________________________________________
weekly
1)_______________________________________________________________________
PROF. M. CANDELARIA LUQUE C.
2)_______________________________________________________________________
b) Read the text and complete it with the words from the list. You can use
each word twice.
early
long
fast
quick
hard
right
straight
Matthew and Laura were really different. Laura was Spanish. Matthew was
English. He was extremely interested in cricket. She wasnt. Laura had long
____________ hair. Matthew had short, curly hair.
One day, Matthew invited her to watch a cricket match with him. Cricket isnt
a very ____________ game and it is a ____________ game to understand. It had been a
____________ day for Laura. She had a headache because she had been working too
____________. She wanted to catch an ____________ train and go ____________ home.
Matthew didnt want to leave the match ____________. He wanted to watch it
____________ to the end. Matthew thought it wasnt the ____________ time to leave. He
had to think ____________ what was he going to do? He needed a ____________
answer. He found some aspirin in his pocket. You dont need to go home. Here,
take some aspirin ____________. We wont stay ____________, I promise. Just another
two hours.
1996,243.
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITY
What would you say in these situations? React to them using the words in
brackets as adverbs and as adjectives.
1) You are studying and you cannot concentrate because your teenage sisters are
quarrelling. (loud)
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
2) A classmate gives you an exercise for you to check and you think the answers
are correct. (right)
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
3)Your mother wants to know whether youve tidied up your room. You forgot to do
it. (clean)
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
4) Your little brothers are shouting and you are talking on the phone. (quiet)
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
5)A friend of yours tells you that her bike cost her only $30. (cheap)
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
CONSULTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biber, D., S. Conrad, and G. Leech. (2002) Longman Student Grammar of Spoken
and Written English. Essex: Pearson Education Limited.
Bolton, D., and N. Goodey (1996) English Grammar in Steps. London: Richmond
Publishing.
Collins
Cobuild
Advanced
Learners
English
Dictionary
(2003)
Glasgow:
HarperCollins Publishers.
Collins Cobuild English Grammar (1990) London: W. Collins Sons and Co Ltd.
PROF. M. CANDELARIA LUQUE C.
ADJ after v
ADJECTIVES
-al political, reciprocal
ADVERBS
-ward(s) homeward(s),
afterward(s)
-ed
surprised, determined
-fuluseful, beautiful
-ing interesting, thrilling
-ish childish, bookish
-ive effective, active
-less smokeless, motionless
-like catlike, boxlike
-ous continuous, serious
-some troublesome,
awesome
-worthy trustworthy
-ablecapable, lovable
-ly
-ly
weekly
friendly, motherly,
really, effectively,
weekly
clean
clean
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