Order of adjectives Lets do some practice Colours

Order of adjectives Let’s do some practice!

Colours and shapes What shape is it? What colour is it? Listen and check

Colours and shapes What shape is it? What colour is it? Listen and check Orange hexagon Red oval Yellow rectangle Pink triangle Blue diamond Green pentagon Black circle Grey star White cross

Materials: material adjective Denim Cotton Wool Leather Wood Metal Denim Cotton Woollen Leather Wooden Metal/ Metallic Glass Silk Plastic silver Glass Silk Plastic Silver

What is the correct order of adjectives? number A /an opinion Lovely beautiful expensive delicious horrible size Big large huge tiny small enormous age some a lot of a pair of old new modern traditional ancient traditional young shape Oval round square triangular rectangular star-shaped colour Red blue (dark blue/light blue) green yellow multicoloured pattern Spotted striped plain floral tartan origin English Italian Spanish Chinese Indian American material Wooden cotton denim plastic leather silver gold metal noun Table chair dress vase cake bag e. g. A lovely young man / A pair of old red socks / some expensive long Italian jeans / A lot of modern striped English cotton fabric / An enormous Chinese table

Adding more information You can extra information to your description by using ‘with. . . ’ This is a lovely old Chinese vase with two large handles and an interesting design This is brand new blue denim jacket with buttons and a tie belt

Use the information about order of adjectives to table to describe these items

Here are some possible answers A beautiful grey and white patterned vase A pair of expensive red Italian shoes A large modern orange sofa with cushions An interesting old dark wooden table An expensive brown leather handbag A pretty green and white cotton dress

What’s your favourite object? Try to describe something that you love Why do you like it? What colour is it? What shape is it? What is it made of? (What material is it) Where is it from? (What origin is it? ) Listen to some people describing their favourite things https: //learnenglish. britishcouncil. org/category/functions -describing-things