Prime Time 5, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

Adjectives and adverbs of manner and degree  G12 1 Finding adverbs of manner and degree Take a look at the text “More teens moving away from CDs” and highlight all adverbs of manner and degree you can find. 2 Adverb or adjective? Fill in the correct forms. 1. She is a (real) danger to other people. 2. Granny looked (angry) at the children who had broken her vase. 3. The weather remained (dry) for the rest of the week. 4. Mr Wright’s patient felt very (weak). 5. The fire destroyed the castle (complete). 6. Within one year she got very (famous). 7. What a (grave) mistake. That sounds (terrible). 3 Describing music Use the adverbs in BOX A and the words in BOX B to make ten meaningful sentences about music. BOX A BOX B extremely very successful ambitious totally quite influential aggressive nearly hardly provocative emotional almost scarcely poetic noisy rather little loud hard-working Grammar Adjectives define nouns or pronouns more closely. young people often download digital music from the internet. Downloading music from the internet is often illegal . After verbs like look (for aussehen ), feel, smell, taste, sound, seem, sound, get (for werden ) we use an adjective. The music sounded good . The cake tasted awful . Adverbs of manner and degree define verbs , adjectives and adverbs more closely. ”I am the best singer in the world,” she thought happily . Music is easily accessible on the internet. The guitarist played extremely fast. Adverbs of manner commonly add -ly to the adjective. However, many adjectives ending in -ly (friendly, silly, …) change into ”in a … way”: He talked to the children in a friendly way . Sometimes adjectives and adverbs have the same form. Here are some examples: daily > daily fast > fast long > long early > early late > late right > right straight > straight Exception: good > well TIP Remember: hard = hart hardly = kaum Many children have to work hard to pass their tests. They have so much to learn. BUT: He hardly works at home. He almost always works in his office 108 Music 8 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv