UNIT 1: THE WAY WE ARE

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutiérrez Alarcón

 Grammar: Adverbs
I drive slowly.
They speak very quickly.
People dress very well.
Use adverbs to say how people do things.
Adverbs usually go after the verb.
I speak English very well.
NOT I speak very well English.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

 Look at the chart for how to make adverbs .
ADJECTIVE ADVERB RULE
slow slowly
quick quickly + -ly
bad badly
carefull carefully
healthy healthily Consonant
easy easily +y = -ily
good well
fast fast Irregular
hard hard
late late

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

• Remember the difference between adjectives and adverbs.
I’m a careful driver. (adjective)
I drive carefully. (adverb)
Not all words that end in -ly are
adverbs, e.g. friendly = adjective.
He’s a friendly person.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

 ADJECTIVE + NOUN
I’m a patient person.
She’s not a good singer.
He’s a fast driver.
She’s a careful driver.
VERB + MANNER ADVERB
I wait patiently in lines.
She doesn’t sing very well.
He drives very fast.
She drives carefully.
Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn
 Exercises: Adjective or adverb. Cross out the wrong word.

1. Our teacher speaks very slow /slowly.

2. Her German is perfect / perfectly.
3. Everything happened very quick / quickly.
4. The class was very good / well.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

5. Please, drive careful / carefully.
6. You can walk safe / safely at night in this city.
7. My sister dresses very good /well.
8. The weather is terrible / terribly tonight.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

 Exercises: Complete the sentences with adverbs from these
adjectives.

Bad good careful hard easy healthy slow quiet beautiful

1. I don’t speak French very _________________ .

2. We played _________________ in the semi-final and we lost 5 – 1.

3. Hurry up! You’re walking very _________________.

4. Can you talk _________________, please? Your father is asleep.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

Bad good careful hard easy healthy slow quiet beautiful

5. We had a good map and we found their house _________________.

6. Open the bag _________________. There are eggs inside.

7. He eats very _________________ - lots of fruit and vegetables.

8. She sings _________________. I’m sure she’s going to be famous.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

 Grammar: Adverbs before adjectives and
adverbs
Use incredibly, extremely, very, really,  She’s incredibly talented.
and so to make some adjectives and  She’s extremely generous.
 He’s a really cool guy.
adverbs stronger.  We get along very well.
Use pretty and fairly to mean “more than  He’s pretty easygoing.
a little”.  He’s fairly laid-back.

Use absolutely or really (but not very)  She’s absolutely wonderful.

with adjectives that are already very  He’s really fantastic.
strong.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

The expression at all makes negatives  She’s not selfish at all.
stronger.
Completely and totally mean 100%.  He’s completely honest.
 She’s totally reliable.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

Exercises: Do you know people with these qualities? Write a
sentence for each expression. Add an example. (p.5)

1. totally laid-back.
2. pretty generous
3. very honest
4. absolutely wonderful
5. not competitive at all

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

6. incredibly impatient
7. fairly disorganized
8. completely reliable
9. extremely talented
10. really inconsiderate

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

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