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Sports, games and hobbies

Do the following exercises:

Exercise 1: Hobbies
Exercise 2: Match a picture and a word
Exercise 3: Olympic Sports
Exercise 4: Memory match
Exercise 5: Sports Vocabulary
Exercise 6: Play - Do - Go
Exercise 7: Play - Do - Go
Exercise 8: Play - Do - Go
Exercise 9: Sports Picture Quiz
Exercise 10: Hobbies
Exercise 11:  Sports Quiz

Formation Of Adjectives in English

Forming adjectives

Typical adjective endings

Some adjectives can be identified by their endings. Typical adjective endings include:

1. -able/-ible understandable, capable, readable, incredible
2. -al mathematical, functional, influential, chemical
3. -ful beautiful, bashful, helpful, harmful
4. -ic artistic, manic, rustic, terrific
5. -ive submissive, intuitive, inventive, attractive
6. -less sleeveless, hopeless, groundless, restless
7. -ous gorgeous, dangerous, adventurous, fabulous

Sometimes when adding these endings changes have to be made. Here are some rules for forming adjectives and their exceptions:

Add	Exceptions	Word	Adjective
-al	If ending with an ‘e‘, drop it	Nature Function	Natural Functional
-y	If ending with an ‘e‘, drop it	Ice Oil	Icy Oily
-ful	If ending with a ‘y‘, replace with an ‘i‘	Beauty Peace	Beautiful Peaceful
-ous/-ious	If ending with a ‘y‘, drop it	Mystery Danger	Mysterious Dangerous
-ic	If ending with a ‘y‘, drop it	History Rust	Historic Rustic

Forming adjectives from nouns and verbs

Adjectives can be formed from different words. They can be formed from nouns:

Noun	Adjective
accident	accidental
danger	dangerous
length	long
star	starry
wind	windy

From verbs:

Verb	Adjective
enjoy	enjoyable
help	helpful
obey	obedient
play	playful
talk	talkative

Or even from other adjectives:

Adjective	Adjective
comic	comical
correct	corrective
elder	elderly
red	reddish
sick	sickly

Examples and exercises

Choose two pictures from the ones given below

1. Describe them independently

2. Compare them 

3. Do you like them? Why? Why not?

POP ART

Drowning Girl (Roy Lichtenstein)  

ABSTRACT

No. 5, 1948 (Jackson Pollock) 

 

SURREALISM

The Persistence of Memory (Salvador Dali) 

EXPRESSIONISM

The Scream (Edvard Munch) 

CUBISM

Three Musicians (Pablo Picasso) 

SYMBOLISM

The Kiss (Gustav Klimt) 

POST-IMPRESSIONISM

Starry Night (Vincent van Gogh) 

IMPRESSIONISM

Dance at Le moulin de la Galette (Pierre-Auguste Renoir) 

REALISM

The Gleaners (Jean-Francois Millet) 

ROMANTICISM

The Third of May 1808 (Francisco Goya) 

BAROQUE

Las Meninas (Diego Velazquez) 

RENAISSANCE

The Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) 

MEDIEVAL

How to describe a picture 

Words used to describe works of art or crafts

Words for Art

               Adjectives          

Art Vocabulary

Food, Food, Food....

Click on the links below for some practice:

A / AN, SOME, ANY

COUNTABLE OR UNCOUNTABLE?

A LOT OF, MANY, MUCH, SOME, ANY, A

THERE IS or THERE ARE

THERE IS or THERE ARE (affirmative, negative, interrogative)

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ACTIVE/PASSIVE VOICE