My present is
this fantastic
dinner!
lesson description
You will be able to classify adjectives and
identify opposites, and use the present
tense form of the verbs “feel” and “guess.”
objectives
• Identify opposites
• Use adjectives
• Practice present tense verbs
Lesson ID: #0390 page 1
vocabulary
1
2
3
4
11
6
7
8
9
S
T F
T W
3 4
S M
1 2
11
9 10
7 8
18
5 6
16 17
14 15
25
12 13
23 24
21 22
19 20
30 31
28 29
26 27
S
T F
T W
3 4
S M
1 2
11
9 10
7 8
18
5 6
16 17
14 15
25
12 13
23 24
21 22
19 20
30 31
28 29
26 27
10
5
12
14
13
15
16
17
20
24
18
21
19
26
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
27
28
The man is comfortable.
The cat is fat.
The cat is skinny.
The dog is cute.
The dog is ugly.
The doctor is young.
The doctor is old.
The toy is new.
The toy is old.
The road is narrow.
The road is wide.
The office is light.
30
29
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
31
23
22
25
34
33
32
The office is dark.
The arrow is straight. / The ground is smooth.
The ground is bumpy.
The man is calm.
The man is angry.
The man is strong.
The man is weak.
The ball is on the top shelf.
The ball is on the bottom shelf.
The angel is good.
The devil is bad.
The boy is happy.
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
The boy is sad.
The man is tall.
The boy is short.
The ball is clean.
The ball is dirty.
The shape is square.
The shape is circular.
The floor is flat.
The ball is round.
The lamp is bright.
verbs to feel
I feel
you feel
she/he/it feels
they/we feel
Lesson ID: #0390 to guess
I guess
you guess
she/he/it guesses
they/we guess
page 2
conversation
Read the following conversation
out loud five times.
Peter: Can you guess what your
present is?
Sara: What, there is more? My present
is this fantastic dinner.
Jeff: Well, you have another present.
Kim: Give her some clues.
Peter: It’s square.
Sara: And? Give me another clue.
Jeff: Ok, it’s flat.
Kim: It’s small.
Peter: It’s black and white.
Bonus Feature: Watch the English Highway video to follow along! (Lesson ID: #0330)
key phrases
your turn
Cheers!
How do you feel?
I don’t feel well.
I don’t know.
I give up.
Is this clean?
Thank you.
What is it?
Fill in the blank with the correct “to feel” or “to guess” verb.
For example: He guesses what I will make for dinner.
1. I ________ sad today.
2. Kim ________that her cat is happy.
3. He ________ happy about the new couch.
4. Peter ________ good after yoga class.
5. At the supermarket, we ________ how much spaghetti Kim needs.
6. They ________ terrific on their birthdays.
7. We haven’t been there, but we ________ that Argentina is beautiful.
8. She ________ bad about breaking the plate.
9. Sara ________ that Peter is at the park.
10. She does not ________ angry.
Lesson ID: #0390 page 3
adjectives
Adjectives describe nouns. They often describe the size, shape, color, and other
characteristics of the nouns to which they refer.
In order to use adjectives correctly, you should remember two things:
1. Adjectives are invariable. This means they do not change their form with regard
to gender or number. In the following examples, notice that it doesn’t matter how
many offices there are; the adjective remains in the same format.
For example:
• A new office
• Many new offices
Usually, adjectives are placed before
the nouns they describe. However,
this is not always true.
We put adjectives after the nouns
they modify when using the following verbs:
• be
• become
• seem
• look
• taste
2. Adjectives are usually placed before the noun they are describing. In the examples
below the words man and book are the nouns being described.
As you can see, the adjective tired
comes after “the boy,” the noun it
describes.
For example:
• He is a tall man.
• It is a red book.
For example:
The boy looks tired.
your turn
Look at the pictures, then fill in each blank with
the correct adjective.
1. The the red ball is ___________.
2. The man in the green shirt is ___________.
3. The road is ___________.
4. The man in the blue shirt is very ___________.
5. The brown cat is ___________.
6. The lamp is very ___________.
7. The boy in the purple shirt is ___________.
Lesson ID: #0390 Now that you understand adjectives, match each word in the
left column with the word in the right column that has the opposite meaning.
1. pretty
2. sad
3. dirty
4. light
5. tall
6. wide
7. strong
8. old
9. happy
10. fat
11. calm
12. top
13. good
a. happy
b. clean
c. short
d. ugly
e. bad
f. angry
g. weak
h. narrow
i. sad
j. young
k. thin
l. dark
m. bottom
page 4
putting it all together…
cultural tip
For each sentence, please circle the adjective, then write your own opposite adjective
next to it. There may be more than one!
In English, it is not polite to refer to
people by their physical appearance.
People don’t like nicknames that point
out physical characteristics, like their
size or hair color.
For example:
Let’s eat dinner at the circular table.
square
1. The ugly princess married a frog.
2. Her new puppy is thin.
3. The small windows make my apartment very dark.
4. Michael seems sad.
5. Tommy played in the mud. He is dirty.
6. My young grandfather plays tennis everyday.
7. Melanie’s boyfriend is tall.
8. This dinner tastes great!
9. The kid plays with the flat ball.
10. Waldo has a weak father.
11. Let’s drive on the bumpy road.
12. The angry clown has a small nose.
13. The river is narrow.
14. Fifi is a tall, bad kitten.
15. The new car is dirty. Lesson ID: #0390 page 5
Answer Key
your turn - exercise 1
your turn - exercise 2
1. feel
2. guesses
3. feels
4. feels
5. guess
6. feel
7. guess
8. feels
9. guesses
10. feel
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. your turn - exercise 3
putting it together - exercise 4
1. d
2. a
3. b
4. l
5. c
6. h
7. g
8. j
9. i
10. k
11. f
12. m
13. e
adjective
1. ugly
2. new, thin
3. small, dark
4. sad
5. dirty
6. young
7. tall
8. great
9. flat
10. weak
11. bumpy
12. angry, small
13. narrow
14. tall, bad
15. new, dirty
Lesson ID: #0390 large
short
narrow
strong
fat
bright
happy
opposite
beautiful/pretty
old, fat
large, bright/sunny
happy
clean
old
short
bad/terrible
round
strong
smooth
happy, large/big
wide
short, good
old, clean
page 6