Course: Legal Technician English

Lesson 02: Adjectives

TEACHER: MG. KAREN Y. ESCALERA VICENTE
 RIDDLE

What kind of
tree can you
carry in your
hand?. A palm
Partners take turns making sentences and responding. For example: Student 1: He is driving.
Student 2: He is not driving. Student 3: Is he driving?. Student 1: The girls have bicycles.
A man is walking
A man is walking. The sun is a big, yellow ball. He es
walking, walking, walking …
The grass is yellow. There are no trees, no flowers, no
water. He is walking, walking, walking…
He does not have a car; he does not have a horse. He
is walking, walking, walking…
The sun is a big, red, ball. He is walking, walking,
walking…
Water! There is water!
The man is running. He es drinking, drinking,
drinking…
The sky is black, and the moon is a big, white ball.
The man has water and he is spleeping.
Answer the questions:
• Where is the man walking?
• What color is the grass?
• In the story. The man does not have …
• What is “a big white ball”?
 The Adjectives
• An adjective is a word that
describes a noun or pronoun such
as a person, place, thing or idea.
• It provides more description and
detail about a: person, place,
thing, or idea

That´s a slow car. an excellent horse

 Difference between an adjective and an adverb
Adjective, it is a word that describes Adverb, it is a word that describe the
someone or something and it usually action verb. It usually goes after the
goes before the noun. main verb in a sentence.
Example: Example:
• That´s a slow car. • That car goes slowly.
• She is a careful driver. • He drives carefully.
Predicate adjectives
Predicate adjectives are in the
predicate and follow a ‘be’ verb,
and they tell more about the
subject.
Examples:
• That student is smart!
• My brothers are fast.
• Those fish are shiny.
• Her dinner is cold.
 Adjectives: ending in –ED and -ING
-ED adjectives:
Describe how people feel.
Are translated: esta/ están
• The boy is interested.
• I am tired right now. My flighyt was
tiring.
• The man is confused about English
grammar.
-ING the cause This film is
boring
-ED the effect I feel really
bored
-ING adjectives.
Describe a situation a person or
thing. It causes a feeling.
Are translated: es/son
• The book is interesting.
• English gramar is confusing for
the man.
 Examples:

The dog is
scary and the
dog is scared.

I´m bored because the

film is boring.

This book is interesting. I

am interested in the book.
 Size + shape + colour + noun
Age
Height Hair Face
• Young • Straight • Thin
• Tall
• teenager • Medium height • Round
• Curly
• Middle aged • Short • Square
• Old • Wavy
• elderly • Bald Eyes
• Pinned up • Blue
Examples: • Brown…
• They have straight hair Figure
Personality
• She has long curly brown hair. • Plump • Funny
• He has short curly dark hair • fat • Friendly
• Slim • Nice
• They have wavy hair • polite
• Thin
• She has long wavy brown hair.
• He has médium-length hair.
 Describe the people
To talk about someone´s appearance,
you can mention:
• General adjectives (beautiful, pretty,
attractive, good looking, handsome)
• Age ….
• Height …
• Figure
• Hair
• Face
• Eyes
• Mouth
• nose
 Choose 2 people and write 5 characteristics of the
person
1.________________________
2. _______________________
3._______________________
4._______________________
5._______________________
• This is a picture of a
young American woman.
The woman has blond hair.
Her hair is long and straight.
She has fair skin.
Her eyes are blue.
She is smiling.
She has straight teeth.

• Do you think she is

beautiful?
This is a picture of a young Indian
woman.
She is thin.
She has brown skin.
She has dark eyes and black hair.
She is wearing a lot of jewerly
Her clothes are very colorful. They
are red an yelllow.
She is covering her hair with a head
scarf.
Look the picture and complete
• This is a picture of a _______
woman.
• The makeup on her face is _____
• The makeup on her lips is ____
• She has ________hair.
• She is wearing _____ Japanese
clothes.
• Her eyes are _____
Adjectives- Word order
The general order of adjectives before a noun.

opinion size Age • Opinion: delicious, lovely, nice,

cool.
• Size: big, small, tall, huge, tiny.
• Age: old, Young, new, Antique
• Shape: round, square, long, fat.
origin color shape • Color: Green, blue, reddish, purple.
• Origin: American, British, Arabic
• Material: gold, wooden, pastic,
synthetic
material purpose • Purpose: gardening, shopping,
riding
 Examples:

Examples:
• An ugly, blue sweater.
• A handsome, young man
• that horrible, big dog
• He is wearing an expensive, long, brown, Italian, cotton
jacket.
• It’s a long, narrow, plastic brush.
• She is a beautiful, tall, young woman.
What´s the correct?
• A red, big ball.
• That is a ugly, wooden chair.
• There are some new, Chinese,
tall students in the class.
• Those houses are big,
old, and white
• This is an old, blue, German car.
Legal vocabulary:
• Detrimental- perjudicial, nocivo Examples:
• Brilliant- fantástico, fabuloso. • They are dishonest people.
• Dishonest- deshonesto • The contract is unlawful.
• Defective/ faulty- defectuoso • This is a unprecedented case
• Onerous - gravoso, costoso, oneroso • If a provision in a contract is void.
• Substandard- de inferior calidad, por debajo • He makes a substandard work.
de la media • substandard housing
• Material- grave, relevante. • Her testimony is detrimental to the
• Unprecedented - que no tiene precedentes, defendant’s case.
algo nunca visto.
• onerous conditions
• Voidable/ unenforceable/ void - adolecer de • defective contracts
defecto, anulable, vacío
• Discharged- Extinguirse • Oh, that’s brilliant!
• unlawful_-ilegal ilicito
Activity in class
• Work in pair: Make a description
of your classmate.
Make sentences using adjectives
James is a taxi driver.
He drives a taxi. But on
Sundays he doesn't
drive his taxi. He stays at
home
 SIMPLE PRESENT: AFFIRMATIVE
We use SIMPLE
SUBJECT
VERB C PRESENT when we
speak different action in
present.
Example:
• I want to a toy.
• Mary needs medicines.
• They never buy oranges
• Mark reads a book.
 SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE
Exceptions:
We add “s” to the verb in third person singular. We use “does” to make questions
and “doesn´t” to make negative. We don´t add “s” to the verb in questions and
negative sentences.

Example:
• The man gets off the subway (+)
• The man doesn´t get off the subway. (-)
• Does the man get off the subway? (?)
• Yes, He does/ No, He doesn´t.
 RULES
In Simple Present Tense, we add the suffix –s / -es / -ies at the end of the verbs for the third
singular subjects( He, She, It )
• The most verbs take –s in the third person singular
• work — works - drink — drinks -help — helps
• smoke — smokes - like — likes - read- reads
• If the verbs end with -ss, -x, -sh, -ch, and -o we add -es at the end of the verbs. Pronunciations
/iz/
• miss — misses - watch — watches -fix — fixes
• mix — mixes - push — pushes -wash — washes
• If the verbs ending in a vowel + -y , add –s
• Play – plays - enjoy – enjoys - say - says
• If the Verbs end with a consonant + ‘–y’, we remove the -y and add –ies at the end of the verbs.
• fly — flies - cry — cries -study- studies
• Copy - copies