2 Order of adjectives Opinion Size Shape Age Color Origin Material Purpose A subjective attitude to someone or something e.g nice, perfect To estimate the dimensions of an object or a person e.g large, huge, narrow To mark out any forms an object can have e.g round, triangular To convey how old something or someone is e.g antique, young, twoyear-old To describe any colors or tints an object can have e.g grey, silver, beige To show the country an object/person comes from e.g French, English, Italian To express materials an object can be made of e.g wooden, silk, woolen To define what an object is used for e.g dining, hotel, swimming Exercise 01 Put the adjectives in the correct order Don’t look for your _ scarf, I’m washing it (winter/woolen/grey) Lincoln walked among _ trees (yellow-and-red/ tall/autumn) She noticed a spot on her favorite jacket (strange/black/oval) This _ dress doesn’t suit you (silk/loose/azure/vivid) Put your _ boots out of the carpet (dirty/green/rain/rubber) This chair is a piece of art (leather/grayish/new) Imagine a _ table (large/working/wooden/comfortable) She has a _ hair (brown/long/beautiful/curly) Are you sure I will find this _ hat in that shop? (pirate/unique/leather/black/triangular) Do you recognize this lady, Mr Smith? (Spanish/ charming/tall/young) Exercise 02 Correct or wrong? CorrectWrongIron your green old sport sweater.She lost her glass unique tiny shoe.Is it an antique bronze Greek bust?He doesn’t see my ink blue pen.Will you call my old army pal?Tom ate sweet fresh cherry pie.My car is a European rusty bucket.Can you buy this blue big balloon?Your new leather Thai bag is nice.I saw his cool green Italian bike Exercise 03 Make up sentences gadgets/to/I/want/buy/European/don’t/any/popular crimson/British/his/car/sport/is/new/broken is/elegant/this/American/lady/teacher/our/tall/new ? Roman/want/do/to have/you/this/vase/why/marble/old ? Exercise 04 Distribute the adjectives in the correct groups OpinionSize Shape Age Color Origin Material Purpose KEYS Exercise 02 Correct or wrong? Exercise 01 Put the adjectives in the correct order Don’t look for your grey woolen winter scarf, I’m washing it (winter-woolen-grey) Lincoln walked among tall yellow-and-red autumn trees (yellow-and-red; tall-autumn) She noticed a strange oval black spot on her favorite jacket (strange-black-oval) This vivid loose azure silk dress doesn’t suit you (silk-loose-azure-vivid) Put your dirty green rubber rain boots out of the carpet (dirty-green-rain-rubber) This new grayish leather chair is a piece of art (leather-grayish-new) Imagine a comfortable large wooden working table (large-working-wooden-comfortable) She has a beautiful long curly brown hair (brownlong-beautiful-curly) Are you sure I will find this unique triangular black leather pirate hat in that shop? (pirate-uniqueleather-black-triangular) Do you recognize this charming tall young Spanish lady, Mr Smith? (Spanish-charming-tall-young) CorrectWrongIron your green old sport sweater.+She lost her glass unique tiny shoe.+Is it an antique bronze Greek bust?+He doesn’t see my ink blue pen.+Will you call my old army pal?+Tom ate sweet fresh cherry pie +My car is a European rusty bucket.+Can you buy this blue big balloon?+Your new leather Thai bag is nice.+I saw his cool green Italian bike.+ Exercise 03 Make up sentences gadgets/to/I/want/buy/European/don’t/any/popular I don’t want to buy any popular European gadgets crimson/British/his/car/sport/is/new/broken His new crimson British sport car is broken is/elegant/this/American/lady/teacher/our/tall/new ? Is this elegant tall American lady our new teacher? Roman/want/do/to have/you/this/vase/why/marble/old ? Why you want to have this old Roman marble vase? Exercise 04 Distribute the adjectives in the correct groups Opinionstylish, splendid, amazing, prettySize huge, little, tall, vastShape polygonal, curved, streamlined, curlyAge half-year-old, ancient, decrepit, youngColor beige, azure, black, reddishOrigin Portuguese, Thai, Russian, PeruvianMaterial leatherette, flax, iron, bronzePurpose dining, dance, swimming, sitting