Adjectives and Adverbs - Descriptive Writing

Adjectives

&

Adverbs

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• Know Imagery and be able to use it in writing.

• Know adjectives, adverbs and how to use them.

How do we describe people and things?

Imagine I told you my character had dark hair and a moustache, would both of these people fit that description?

What more could we have said to differentiate?

Open Ended

These are both chairs.

Use words to describe each of them so that we can clearly identify which one is being talked about.

Multiple Choice

How many senses do you have which tell you information about the world around you?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

​Imagery is descriptive language used by writers which evoke the 5 senses.

Sight: What you see

Auditory: What you can hear

Smell: What you can smell

Taste: What you can taste

Touch: What things feel like

Open Ended

While you are watching, write down sensory information from the 5 senses: e.g.

"sight: lots of people

Auditory: People talking"

Sight, Auditory, Touch, Taste, Smell

The shirt sat on the table. 

How well did we describe the noun if I was looking at this image?

In order for you to properly describe what you're writing about, you need to use adjectives and adverbs.

Adjectives describe nouns. Adverbs describe verbs. 

Adjectives & Adverbs

Open Ended

Add descriptive adjectives into an original sentence about the following image:

e.g. add into a sentence like "The Lamborghini/car crashed."

Multiple Choice

Adjectives give details/description to...

• Nouns

• Verbs

• Adverbs

• Prepositions

While there are different types of adverbs, the important one we will talk about today is called the Adverb of manner and is generally what people think about when they talk about adverbs.

​Adverbs

​Adverbs of manner explain HOW a verb was done.

I’ll demonstrate a few right now.

I walked around the classroom ____________________.

Give me an adverb of manner to describe my walking!

What do you notice about how the adverbs of manner end?

Do they always do this?

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an adverb that is true about the following image?

• Yellow and green paint

• Flashing-headlights

• Slowly spinning-wheels

• On-fire

Multiple Choice

In the previous question, we had the example of "flashing-headlights". This was an example of using adjectives, which is the adjective and which is the noun?

• Flashing = Noun

  Headlights = Adjective

• Flashing = Adjective

  Headlights = Noun

Open Ended

Brainstorm adverbs to help us describe the dancing we are seeing.

e.g. She is dancing __________

or

She is __________ dancing

Multiple Choice

Adverbs of manner must ALWAYS end with the letters -LY

• True

• False

Open Ended

Spend the rest of the period using adjectives and adverbs to write descriptive detail for the following image. It can have characters and a narrative in it or not - up to you!

We will present these in the class, so make sure it's appropriate to be read out loud.