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Adjectives and Adverbials – Word Order

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Positions of Adjectives/Adverbials

Click on the links below to go to the corresponding website with grammar analysis and online exercises.

  Adjective Order (click here)

Opinion

Size

Age

Shape

Colour

Origin

Material

Purpose

Order of Adverbials (click here)

Verb
Manner
Place
Frequency
Time
Purpose
Beth swims
enthusiastically
in the pool
every morning
before dawn
to keep in shape.
Dad walks
impatiently
into town
every afternoon
before supper
to get a newspaper.
Tashonda naps
in her room
every morning
before lunch.

Adverbials: “BBC Learning English”

Online Exercises

1. Rebuild the sentences “Drag and Drop” (Hot Potatoes Format)

2. Rebuild the sentences “Position of Adverbs”  (New English File 4)

3. Rebuild the sentences “Adjective Order” (Headway Advanced)

4. Multiple Choice “Order of Adverbials”

5. Space Invaders Game “Adjective Order” (New English File 4)

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Junk food, junk school. Lovin’ it?

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The previous post, Energy Wasting Day, shows an April Fool’s Day joke (click here for a classic example) with the worthy intention of focusing attention on the issue of energy use in our daily lives. However, the following news is NOT an April Fool.

Read this McDonald’s website and decide for yourself. Does this mean the final destruction of British state education, or is this the way forward? Is this the future for Catalonia, with plans for indirect management  of schools? (A[dvanced] Level is equivalent to Batxillerat.)  

McDonald’s to offer qualification that is equivalent to an A-level

McDonald’s has become one of the first companies in the UK to be given Awarding Body status by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), enabling them to award accredited qualifications, equal to GCSE’s, A levels and degrees, to employees for the first time.

McDonald’s has been piloting a ‘Basic Shift Managers’ course since the beginning of the year, to teach staff everything they need know about the day-to-day running of a restaurant, from basic operational requirements and marketing to human resources and finance.

The initiative aims to give official credit to training which otherwise would not be recognised outside of McDonald’s and demonstrate how the workplace can be part of employees’ continuous learning.

McDonald’s A Level
 What’s wrong with Mcdonald’s?Source: Website
  Grease Gag

What’s the question?

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“Information” Questions: Online Practice

WHAT?   WHICH?   WHEN?   WHERE?   WHY?   WHO?   WHOSE?   HOW?   HOW MUCH?   HOW MANY?

Question Word (WH) + (Auxiliary) Verb + Subject + Infinitive  ______? [QUASI?]

 How do we ask questions? We put the auxiliary before the subject.

 There are some online exercises for you to practise question forms. Click on the links to do these exercises.

1. Write the question – Present Simple

2. Write the question – Present Simple / Continuous

3. Write the question – Present Continuous

4. Choose the Question Word (Wh___)

5. Past Simple – Auxiliary Verb/Subject

6. Write the question – Past Simple – Ex. A

7. Write the question – Past Simple – Ex. B

8. Write the Question Word (Wh___)

Decorate Your Room

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Click here and use the website program to decorate Angelina Jolie’s lounge. (= living room) 

Here are your instructions.

This is a pretty living room. There’s a wooden door on the right. The walls on the left and on the right are yellow, but the wall at the back of the room is mauve. The ceiling is white, and it has circles on it for decoration. There’s parquet on the floor.

There’s a comfortable blue sofa on the left. A cat’s sleeping on the sofa, and there’s a teddy bear on the right of it. There’s a red coffee table in front of the sofa, and there’s an old-fashioned telephone in the middle of it.

In the right-hand corner there’s a wooden cupboard with brown and green doors. There’s a tall turquoise-coloured lamp between the cupboard and the sofa.

There’s a window behind me, but there aren’t any other windows. There aren’t any pictures on the walls either. It’s a simple style of decoration, but I like it because it’s very calm.

When you finish the decoration, click here to see the solution, and compare it with your version. Angelina