It is an introduction to adjectives ending in -ed or -ing. It is meant to contrast their meaning and explain their relationship to show how each one of them complements each other. I would use it for Intermediate ESL or EFL students
2. -ing Adjectives
-ing shows who or what causes the feeling:
e.g.
Freddie Mercury’s concerts were
exciting. Mercury was exciting!
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3. -ed Adjectives
-ed shows who or what “has”, experiences or
feels the feeling
e.g.
That man is excited. The
audience is excited.
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5. Verb To interest:
The Sphinx is interesting.
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6. … so we are …? in it.
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7. Or, at least, he is interested in it.
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8. Verb To tire/ To exhaust
The man and the dog are …
…because rescuing people is a/an … work.
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Verb To tire/ To exhaust
The man and the dog are tired or exhausted.
…because rescuing people is a tiring/ an exhausting
work.
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Discuss this quote in pairs, please. What does it mean?
When can you apply it?
Editor's Notes
David Ogilvy’s memo about himself:
Thirty-three years later, he sent the following memo to one of his partners:
Will Any Agency Hire This Man?
He is 38, and unemployed. He dropped out of college. He has been a cook, a salesman, a diplomatist and a farmer. He knows nothing about marketing and had never written any copy. He professes to be interested in advertising as a career (at the age of 38!) and is ready to go to work for $5,000 a year.
I doubt if any American agency will hire him.
However, a London agency did hire him. Three years later he became the most famous copywriter in the world, and in due course built the tenth biggest agency in the world.
The moral: it sometimes pays an agency to be imaginative and unorthodox in hiring.