Adjectives, Gerunds and Infinitives

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Adjectives and Gerunds

By Teacher Erick Aguilar

We gonna work with two topics "Adjectives" and "Gerunds"

This week we will begin with Adjectives and the other two weeks after vacation we will work with Gerunds and finally a review of two of them.

Let's Review

Nouns Do you remember the nouns? Is a name of the person, place, thing or event. Example: Jessica, Supermarket, Chair, Parade.

Let's Review

Pronouns Do you remember the pronouns? Used in place of a noun. Example Sonia - She

Adjectives

What are the adjectives? Adjectives are words that describe nouns, can tell us information about the noun, such the size or color, also tell us someone opinion about a noun or describe someone his feeling.

Adjectives

Examples Michelle is pretty. Pretty is used for describe to Michelle. We went to the amazing party at your home. Amazing is used to describe the party.

Adjectives

Adjectives answer this questions. What kind? How many? Which ones?

Adjectives

Examples What kind of person is Jhonny? Jhonny Is a kind guy. How many rooms do you have in your house? I have three rooms. There're four flavors of ice cream, Which one is your favorite? My favorite is the vanilla.

Types of adjectives

Tell the quality of a noun or pronoun.

Descriptive

Tell restrictions of a word, it modifies

Are use to ask questions

Interrogative

Limiting

Examples of Descriptive

Big, tall, small

Red, yellow, blue

Color

Size

Happy, tired, hungry

Beutiful, expensive, delicious

Opinion

Feeling

Examples of Interrogative

What?, whose? Which?

Questions Interrogative Determiners

Examples of Limiting

One, two, three...

A, an, the

Articles

Number

This, That, those, these

Demostrative Pronouns

Patterns in the adjectives

Adjective + Noun Examples: I have a red bag Whose is this pencil? That cellphone is mine Be + Adjective Example: Carol is beutiful

Activity

Order the sentences: 1. new that my is car 2. Carolina beutiful is 3. yesterday party have great you a 4. the pencil? desk Whose this found I on 5. I how? today feel great you feel 6. is car what? is color your red my car

Prepositions

Prepositions Are words that show things like Time = at 2:00 place = on the table direction = around the corner

Prepositions

Prepositions of place Show where something is. Example: The cat is on the bed. The TV is in front of the bed.

Prepositions

Common prepositions of place Above - sobre Between - entre In front of - en frente de Next to - junto a / a lado de Under - debajo Behind - atrás On - encima In - dentro Across from - En frente de

Prepositions

Sentence Patterns Pattern 1 The + noun + verb + preposition + the + noun Example: The cat is in front of the house. Pattern 2 There + verb + a + noun + preposition + the + noun Example: There is a dog under the sofa.

Prepositions

Prepositions of time Show when something happens. Commons are: At, on and in Example: I eat breakfast at 7:00 am. The party is on December 24. The flowers grow in the spring.

Prepositions of time

When we use the preposition at at + time at + night at + lunchtime / dinnertime When we use the preposition on on + day on + date When we use the preposition in in + the morning / the afternoon / the evening in + months / years in + seasons ( spring, summer, fall, winter)

Prepositions

Others Prepositions Along - a lo largo Amoung - entre Around - alrededor de / entorno de Below - debajo de / por debajo de Toward - hacia By - por / junto a / por delante de Over - encima de / sobre

Activity

Complete with the correct preposition: 1. The painting is ____ the bed 2. There is a cat ____ the coffee table 3. The lamp is _____ the couch 4. There is a bird ____ the box 5. There is a coffee table ____ the couch

Gerunds and Infinitives

What are the gerunds and infinitives? Are words with a verb meaning, they function as nouns in a sentence.

Gerunds and Infinitives

Gerunds Are formed by adding -ing to the base form of the verb. Verb + -ing Example: Reading, walking, writting Infinitives Are formed with the base form of the verb. To + verb Example: to eat, to write, to run

Gerunds and Infinitives

Sentence Patterns Subject + verb + object Subject and object are usally nouns, but gerunds and infinitives can also function as the subject or object of a sentence.

Examples

Example: Cooking is my best strength Cooking - subject She likes walking She - subject Likes - verb Walking - object They go to work They - subject Go - verb To work - object

Rules

Gerund Verb + gerund Common verbs are: consider, discuss, enjoy, finish, keep, practice, quit, recommend and suggest. Example: Carol and Jhonny consider having a date this weekend.

Rules

Gerund Subject = gerund Example: Gardening is my favorite hobby. Meeting new people isn't always easy.

Rules

Gerund Preposition + gerund Example: I thought about taking guitar lessons. Did you plan on calling back to your mom?

Rules

Infinitive Verb + infinitive Common verbs are: agree, decide, hope, learn, need, offer, plan, promise and want. Example: Matilda need to travel to London for her business.

Rules

Infinitive Adjective + infinitive Example: I was happy to see my test score. Is it difficult to make a cake?

Rules

Infinitive Noun / Pronoun + infinitive Example: The teacher told the students to be quiet. We asked them to go to the cinema with us.

Activity

Complete the sentences using gerunds or infinitives depending of the sentence. 1. Call me when you finish____(clean) 2. The teacher told the students___(study) every night 3. He promised___ his sister to the beach (take) 4. ____ always cheers me up (sing) 5. They considered ___ to a new city (move) 6. It is important ___ enough sleep every night (get) 7. We talked about ___ our own business (start)

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