4. The great warrior Fionn Mac Cumhaill was resting at home with his wife one day. There was a Scottish
giant who had heard of Fionn’s greatness and wanted to fight him so that he could get glory.
5. How can we make these sentences come alive?
The great warrior Fionn Mac Cumhaill was resting at home with his wife one day. There was a Scottish giant
who had heard of Fionn’s greatness and wanted to fight him so that he could get glory.
General adjectives-
● hairy
● dusty
● melancholy
● abrupt
● tall
● angry
● grotesque
● monstrous
● miniscule
Adverbs-
quickly
hastily
angrily
faintly
begrudgingly
meagerly
Gerunds-
● walking
● talking
● laughing
● playing
● running
● drinking
● eating
● hating
● loving
● painting
● baking
● mixing
● joking
● betting
● hammering
● nailing
Descriptive Nouns-
● People- features,
height, weight
● Places-
appearence,
location
● Things- size,
shape, color,
texture
(You can interchange
adjectives with-in
nouns.)
6. Adjective Order
1. Quantity or number
2. Quality or opinion
3. Size
4. Age
5. Shape
6. Color
7. Proper adjective (often
nationality, other place of
origin, or material)
8. Purpose or qualifier
I love that really old big green antique car that always parked at the end of the street.
[quality – age – size – color – proper adjective]
7. ● In group of 3 or 4, go to http://www.irishmythology.net/ .
● Click on “Stories” at the top of the page.
● As a group, open, listen and read one of the three
stories.Note the nouns and adjectives used in the story.
● When you are finished, change the adjectives in the first
three sentences of the story using the new material we
discussed in class. Make the story more dynamic!
● Read the new sentences out loud to the rest of the
class.
8. Homework
Rewrite one of the paragraphs from any story on the
website or tell a story from your own country. Change the
descriptive words to make the story come ALIVE!
If time permits, during the next class, read the new story
with the new descriptive words and discuss. Have FUN
with it!
