mrmen-adjectives
TRANSCRIPT
Mr. MEN adjectives practice
http://helloteachermarta.blogspot.com.es/
http://helloteachermarta.blogspot.com.es/ 1
DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
1. Underline the adjectives that describe a person´s physical appearance and
circle the adjectives that describe a person psychologically.
2. Now, classify them in two groups:
Physical appeareance Psychological description
Name:_____________________________________________________ Class: __________
Date: ____________________________________________________________________
http://helloteachermarta.blogspot.com.es/ 2
3. Watch the slideshow (downloadable here: http://bit.ly/llK4NA) and use one of
the adjectives below to describe the pictures:
noisy busy greedy lazy
nosy = nosey grumpy skinny happy
clumsy funny messy silly
4. How many answers did you get right?
5. How many mistakes did you make?
6. Write the adjective that represents each sentence:
a) Not quiet - _ _ _ _ _
b) You have a lot of things to do - _ _ _ _
c) You are only interested in food or money - _ _ _ _ _ _
d) You don´t like working. All you want to do is lay on the sofa or sleep all
day - _ _ _ _
e) You want to know things about other people - things that are none of
your business - _ _ _ _
1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9.
10. 11. 12.
http://helloteachermarta.blogspot.com.es/ 3
f) You don´t laugh, you´re in a bad mood - _ _ _ _ _ _
g) Very thin - _ _ _ _ _ _
h) You break things, you drop things, you walk into things - _ _ _ _ _ _
i) Someone or something that makes you laugh is… - _ _ _ _ _
j) The opposite of tidy - _ _ _ _ _
k) If someone isn´t being serious, you say: “Don´t be … “ - _ _ _ _ _
7. Which of the adjectives above describe you?
_______________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
8. Write the opposites of:
1. Noisy -
2. Happy -
3. Messy –
4. Lazy -
5. Greedy –
6. Fast -
7. Skinny -
8. Funny -
9. Silly -
10. Tall -
http://helloteachermarta.blogspot.com.es/ 4
9. Write the appropriate adjective for each of these Mr Men pictures:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)
k)
l)
http://helloteachermarta.blogspot.com.es/ 5
10. Write a sentence to describe each of the prevoius Mr. Men physically.
Ex. a) Mr. Messy is fat and pink. He’s got big black eyes and he’s smiling.
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
http://helloteachermarta.blogspot.com.es/ 6
11. Now design your own Mr. Men character and organize your ideas in this
thinking map. Then you will have to present it to your partners.
Mr. /Ms.
_________________
Physical Description
Clothes (in general/during the
weekend)
Daily routine
Favourite things (sport/food/colour/
number/book…)