ADJECTIVE FORMATION ( FOR DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS)

1.- Adjectives in - ed/-ing
Choose the right adjective. Example: I was disappointing/disappointed with the film. I had expected it to be better.
1 We were all horrifying/horrified when we heard about the disaster.
2 It's sometimes embarrassing/embarrassed when you have to ask people for money.
3 Are you interesting/interested in football?
4 I enjoyed the football match. It was quite exciting/excited.
5 It was a really terrifying/terrified experience. Later, everybody was very shocking/ shocked.
6 I had never expected to be offered the job. I was really amazing/amazed when I was offered it.
7 The kitchen hadn't been cleaned for ages. It was really disgusting/disgusted.
8 Do you easily get embarrassing/embarrassed ?

2.- Rewrite the following sentences by using the suffix – less


�� I have no money. I’m broke: …………………………………………………….
�� I don’t know what to say…………………………………………………………
�� There are lots of people who have no house to live in………………………….
�� This film seems to have no end………………………………………………….
�� Once upon a time there was king with no mercy………………………………
�� He lost all his teeth in an accident……………………………………………….
�� Maria has no hope at all………………………………………………………….

3.- Create adjectives and their opposite from the nouns in the box + the suffixes - less and – ful. Then write a sentence with each of the adjectives.
NOUN + LESS ( lack of...)
NOUN + FUL (abstract noun)

Noun	Adjective 1	Adjective 2	Your sentence with 1 of the adjectives.
Harm	Harmful	harmless	Don’t worry about the dog. It’s harmless.
Peace
Use
Hope
Care
Power

4.- Rewrite these phrases or sentences without changing the meaning. 


Follow the example: �� A man with wavy hair= A wavy-haired man.


�� A girl with long hair= ………………………………………………………………………..
�� A boy with blue eyes= ………………………………………………………………………
�� Men with fat bodies=………………………………………………………………………..
�� A car with 5 doors=………………………………………………………………………….
�� I don’t like boys with a big nose=…………………………………………………………..
�� Yesterday I met a soldier with one arm=……………………………………………………..

�� A boy with a round face…………………………………………………………………….
�� A baby with a big head………………………………………………………………………
�� Women with fat bodies………………………………………………………………………..
�� People with an absent mind………………………………………………………………..
�� I hate people with a hard heart…………………………………………………………….
�� The story is about a bull with two heads………………………………………………….
�� My father has got curly hair……………………………………………………....................
�� She can’t see very well because her eyes are crossed…………………………………...
�� I have a house with 3 toilets………………………………………………………………….
�� We booked a room with two beds…………………………………………………………
�� I don’t understand people with a narrow mind…………………………………………..