Ranking Adjectives PLEASE DON T WRITE ON THIS SHEET It will be reused. PLEASE RETURN TO YOUR TEACHER AT THE END OF THE LESSON. 1. Start a new page in your CLASSWORK book, title RANKING ADJECTIVES. 2. Choose THREE of the following adjective groups. Note: you can t choose HAPPY because that s the example I ve done!) 3. In your book, draw three diagrams (see examples) which rank your choice of SEVEN words from STRONGEST to WEAKEST for each group. Use pictures and colour to make it more interesting! big huge large tall jumbo monster jumbo small tiny baby bitty short little mini minature petite teeny infinitesimal puny sad unhappy depressed disconsolate down sorrowful upset joyless sullen wretched happy joyful in high spirits cheery jolly merry ecstatic ecstatic! pretty lovely pleasing fetching cute goodlooking foxy comely ugly un plain unseemly bad crappy horrible not good inferior severe grave vile good great pimped cool fine okay joyful merry happy cheery okay
Ranking Adjectives (M) NAME: DATE: GLUE ME IN NOW, PLEASE For each group of adjectives (describing words), RANK the words from STRONG to WEAK just like in the example. After, COLOUR the pyramids in to show the strength of the words. ecstatic!,,,,, ecstatic, please,,, pretty, lovely, cute, ugly bad, un,,, plain, ugly, horrible,,, bad,, not good, appaling
A Useful list of Evaluation and Judgement Words GLUE ME IN NOW Please! Colour the positive words one colour (maybe green). Colour the neutral words another (maybe yellow). Colour the negative words another (maybe red). Circle words you don t know. un Choose three words you circled and look them up (using a dictionary or thesaurus). Word Meaning In your classwork book (TITLE: Judgement Words), write a sentence for each of the following which evaluates it that is, it tells us whether you think it s a good thing or a bad thing, using positive and negative judgement words (avoid neutral words, unless you feel ambivalent about it). For example: My best friend has an laugh it s so loud I really love her for her sense of humour. 1. Your Mum (or Dad, or Grandma or Caregiver). 2. Your pet. 3. Your best friend. 4. The car you ve always wanted to drive. 5. Millicent. 6. Today s weather. 7. A recent sports game you went to. 8. A movie you ve just seen. 9. Someone you used to know didn t like. 10. Someone from TV.
A Useful list of Evaluation and Judgement Words (M) GLUE ME IN NOW Please! Colour the positive words one colour (maybe green). Colour the neutral words another (maybe yellow). Colour the negative words another (maybe red). Circle words you don t know. un Choose three words you circled and look them up (using a dictionary or thesaurus). Word Meaning Write a sentence for each of the following which evaluates it that is tells us whether you think it s a good thing or a bad thing, using positive and negative judgement words (avoid neutral words, unless you feel netural about it). For example: My best friend has an laugh it s so loud I really love her for her sense of style! My mum/dad/grandma/caregiver. My pet, My best friend Today, the weather is I saw the movie recently and it
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