Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives

Adult Literacy Core Curriculum (DfES 2001): writing / sentence focus / grammar

Use adjectives (a) Understand that adjectives extend the information in sentences, by providing some detail about a noun (b) Understand that adjectives help the writer to describe people, feelings, places, situations and objects in more detail (c) Understand that the choice of adjectives can often convey a writer's attitude (d) Know and use the term adjective

NB. Resources in this category are gradually being remapped to the equivalent Reformed Functional Skills English content descriptor: E2.20 Use adjectives and simple linking words in the appropriate way

Learners use a gap-fill to complete positive and negative restaurant reviews.
I designed this resource to encourage learners to use a thesaurus to help improve their vocabulary and use more interesting adjectives.

I’ve used it with Entry level and Level 1/2 learners.

Editor's note

Fully mapped to the new 2018 Functional English content which comes into effect September 2019.

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Level 1
English
FE E2.17 Communicate information using words & phrases appropriate to audience & purpose
FS English E2.20 Use adjectives and simple linking words
FE E2.19 Write in compound sentences, using common conjunctions to connect clauses
FE E3.22 Use language appropriate for purpose & audience
FE L1.24 Use format, structure & language appropriate for audience & purpose
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives
Context
Catering Food Nutrition

A simplified adjectives resource that I created to use with E1/E2 learners to introduce them to writing a description of something. Students should be encouraged to provide one describing word each that can be displayed on the whiteboard before discussing the term adjective.

This resource covers what an adjective is with underlining and cloze writing exercises to build knowledge before students attempt to write a description of two pictures. The descriptions of the pictures can be basic but students should be encouraged to use full sentences.

Level
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
English
FS English E2.20 Use adjectives and simple linking words
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives

Lovely introduction to nouns, verbs and adjectives. For E2-3 ESOL and Literacy.
Start with the PPT which is based on a very tasty bakery theme and includes information and examples for students to work through. Follow this with the handout and a highlighting exercise.

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
English
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives
Adult Literacy Rs/E3.2 Use implicit & explicit knowledge of word types/order to help with decoding/predicting meaning
Adult Literacy Rs/E3.1 Recognise & understand the organisational features & typical language of instructional texts
ESOL
ESOL Ws/E2.2a Use adjectives
ESOL Rs/E3.1b Use knowledge of syntax and grammar to work out meaning
Context
Catering Food Nutrition

Set of reading comprehension and computer-based research/writing task based on a set of instructions for making your own terrarium from a drinks bottle. Written for, and fully mapped to, Entry 2 Functional English and ICT, but could also be used for E1 and E3 learners.

Level
Entry Level 2
English
Functional English - writing
Wt/E2.1
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives
Rt/E2.2
AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts
Rs/E2.1
Functional English reading
ICT
Functional ICT
Context
Gardening & Horticulture

Set of two resources written for ‘Literacy through Drama’ students and ideal for young social networking fans. A character must be selected and then imaginary Facebook / MySpace profiles written. Ideal for encouraging descriptive writing, use of adjectives, etc. 8 pages of writing frames plus a great PPT to introduce the topic (uses Bart Simpson as the character).

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
English
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives
Ws/E3.1
AL Wt/E3.1 Plan & draft writing
Context
Art Film Media Music Radio TV

Heroes and Celebrations chocolate tasting game cleverly combines reading instructions, alphabetical ordering and adjectives into a delicious activity!

Level
Entry Level 2
English
AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts
Rw/E2.4
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives

A short text about a holiday in Barcelona. Students must find all the nouns and adjectives (also makes good E2 reading practice).

Level
Entry Level 2
English
Ws/E2.4
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives
Context
Leisure, Hobbies, Travel & Tourism

A super, complete E2-E3 lesson plan (and resources) originally written for e2e students looking at healthy eating, but great for any group. The lesson plan pays particular attention to equality and diversity.
Includes detailed plan, quiz answer sheet, illustrated fill-in tables and adjective ideas. You will need a selection of exotic fruit and also, if following the entire lesson plan, our Describing Foods resource (see below).

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
English
SLlr/E3.2
SLc/E3.1
SLc/E3.3
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives
Context
Catering Food Nutrition
Health, Social care, Early years

Coronation Street resources – 8 super pages of Entry 2 resources based on this popular soap. Cloze exercise, matching game, alphabetical order, form filling, punctuation and more.
Adapted from Sally Shipton’s Emmerdale resource (see below).

Level
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
English
Form filling
Rs/E2.2 Use sentence structure to decipher and predict meaning
Rs/E2.3 check plausible meanings of sentences when decoding unfamiliar words
AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts
Rw/E2.4
AL Rw/E1.1 Have limited, meaningful sight vocabulary of words, signs, symbols
Ws/E2.1
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives
Ws/E2.3
Ws/E2.4
Context
Art Film Media Music Radio TV

Describing people – a writing framework is a great scaffolded writing resource that makes descriptive less daunting and a lot of fun! Ideal for use after introducing adjectives.

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
English
Ws/E2.1
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives
Ws/E3.1
Wt/E2.1
AL Wt/E3.1 Plan & draft writing