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 We will learn the following:
AGENDA:
Possessive adjectives: ownership

Adjective position in a sentence

Questions with Wh: Finding out the owner

Whose and expressing
Possession.
Telling time: what time is it?

Family members: identifying people in your family.

Describing your relatives
Descriptive adjectives: description

Adjectives that Colors

describe basic Sizes
personalities and Clothing
appearance Asking for and describing colors,
sizes and clothing
 1 st
of all,
Let´s understand:
ADJECTIVES
WHO IS SHE? DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION?

GIRL
(NOUN)
ADJECTIVE= QUALIFIES, GIVES INFORMATION

SHE IS A HAPPY GIRL

 ADJECTIVES ARE WORDS THAT
DESCRIBE, QUALIFY, DENOTE
ATTRIBUTES, OFFERING INTERESTING

“
WAYS OF CONVEYING OUR IDEAS,
Function: BRINGING LANGUAGE ALIVE.
qualify, describe,
denote attributes

PART OF
SPEECH

AN
ADJECTIVE Los adjetivos son palabras que describen,
califican y denotan los atributos del
sustantivo; ofreciendo recursos para
expresar nuestras ideas dándole vida al
lenguaje..
 ADJECTIVE POSITION IN THE SENTENCE
The position will vary according to the role they play in the sencence. For instance:
As a modifier of a noun: they will go before the noun.
After a linking verb ( be, become, seem, appear, taste, feel, grow and turn.)

A
D
J
V E
C N
E T
I O
R V
U
B E
N

She is a happy girl.

La posición del adjetivo varía de acuerdo a la función que desempeña en la oración. Por ejemplo:
Como modificador: antes del sustantivo.
Luego de un verbo copulativo (tal como: be, become, seem, appear,taste, feel,grow and turn)
POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES:
show belonging

➢ My ➢ Her

➢ Its
➢ Your
➢ Our
➢ His
➢ Their
 i s my
es , t h is
Is this your Y
car.
car?
 Questions with Wh:
Whose

WH
Verb
Direct SUBJECT ?
Object To BE

WHOSE IS AN INTERROGATIVE ADJECTIVE:

Interrogative adjectives are words that work with
nouns to pose questions
 WHOSE IS AN
INTERROGATIVE
ADJECTIVE:it is
used to find out
the owner
 It is our car , t h i s is
No ar.
y c
not m ar is
h o s ec
Is this your W
it?
car?

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 TELLING
TIME
What time is it?

TO
WHATTIME
BE IS S IT?

It is 10 past 10 .
What time is it?
It’s five to two.
Al decir la hora,
y usar el “to”
corresponde al
equivalente en español
de “para”, en este caso 5
para las 2.
Se usa “past” como el
equivalente en español de:
“y”. Por ejemplo: 2:10 es 10
past two, o en español a: 2
y 10.
 FAMILY: guess who is who and check in the next slide
if you got the correct answers

IDENTIFYING
PEOPLE IN
THE FAMILY

Who is
FAMILY who?
MEMBERS
  Abraham and Mona are parents to Homer and Herb.
 Clancy and Jackie are parents to Marge, Patty and Selma.
 Abraham, Mona, Clancy and Jackie are grandparents to Bart,
Lisa, Maggie and Ling.
 Homer and Marge are married, Homer is husband to Marge.
Marge is wife to Homer. They are parents to Bart, Lisa and
Maggie.
 Bart is the son of Marge and Homer.
 Bart is Lisa and Maggie’s brother.
 Maggie and Lisa are Bart´s sisters.
 Herb is uncle to Bart, Lisa and Maggie.
 Patty and Selma are aunts to Bart, Lisa and Maggie.
 Ling is the daughter of Selma.
 Ling is cousin to Bart, Lisa and Maggie.
 Maggie and Lisa are Herb´s nieces.
 Bart is Herb´s nephew.
 Ling is Marge’s niece.
 Bart is Patty and Selma’s nephew.
 Lisa and Maggie are Patty and Selma´s nieces.
 In-Laws: (parientes políticos)
 Marge is the daughter in law to Mona and Abraham.
FAMILY  Homer is the son in law to Clancy and Jackie.
MEMBERS  Herb is Marge´s brother in law.
 Patty and Selma are Homer’s sisters in law.
 LET´S REMEMBER
ADJECTIVES ARE USED
FOR DESCRIPTIONS.

LET´S
DESCRIBE
SOME OF
THE
SIMPSON’S
FAMILY
MEMBERS.
 IMPORTANT QUESTION TO ASK FOR
DESCRIPTION

Aux verb 1 Verb 2

What Subject
Do Look like?
DESCRIPT
ION
What does Marge look like?
◎ Marge is tall.
◎ Marge is attractive.
◎ Marge is intelligent.
◎ Marge is romantic.
◎ * tall, attractive, intelligent,
and romantic are all adjectives.
Homer is bald./Homero es calvo. Usamos el
verbo to be porque calvo es un adjetivo
DESC
R IPTIO
N

What does Marge look like?

◎ Marge has blue hair.
◎ Marge has a red necklace.
◎ Marge has big eyes.
◎ Marge has long eyelashes.
The verb have is connected with a
noun,use the formula below:

VERB TO
S HAVE
NOUN
 DESCRIPTION
SYNTAX: Sentence structure and
organization
S VERB TO HAVE Any adjective
Adjective related
to size & length
Adjective : texture color NOUN

◎ Marge has curly blue hair.

◎ Marge has beautiful long curly blue hair.
◎ Marge has a tall hairdo.
◎ Selma has long curly purple hair.
SYNTAX: Sentence structure and organization
◎ Herb has short wavy brown hair.

Subject+Verb+Adj+ Adj+ color+ NOUN

length texture
Colors & sizes

The sun is yellow.

The sky is blue.
Night is black.
This is a big house.
This is a small jacket .
Clothing
 Adjective
Any related to Adjective
S VERB
adjective size & : texture color material NOUN
length

DESCRIPTION & SYNTAX FOR CLOTHING

◎ Mark wears a new large smooth brown leather jacket.

art
ADJ
Size & ADJ ADJ ADJ
S Verb ADJ length texture NOUN
color material
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AND THEN
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TEST
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LEVEL.
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