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Adjectives to
Describe Places
Traveling and Leisure Time
Grammar & Structure
Level B1

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Adjectives to Describe Places Outline

Content
In this lesson you will use descriptive words to talk about places you like.

Learning Outcomes
• Learn to use adjectives.
• Learn travel and leisure related vocabulary.
• Practice the adjectives to talk about food, weather, people, shops,
transportation, and towns/cities themselves.

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Grammar

An adjective is a word that

is used to describe a
noun.

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Please note
Adjectives sometimes appear after a verb.
They can also appear before a noun.

Example This place is full of people.

The place is crowded.

This is a crowded place.

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Grammar

A touristy place Disney World is touristy

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Grammar

Please note
Before adjectives + noun you will often find a
determiner: -a, an, the, this, that, my, your,
every, one, twenty, many, etc.
Examples
The small house we visited.
Your colorful house.
Two beautiful houses.

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I see many calm places.

Her place is calm.

I think this is one calm place!

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Grammar

Please note
There are different types of adjectives: quality,
quantity, number, age, opinion, color, etc.

Opinion
• Examples: Beautiful, Ugly, Interesting, Boring.

Size
• Examples: Huge, Tiny, Little, Big.

Age
• Examples: Young, Old, Ancient, Modern.

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Grammar

Text

Adventurous An adventurous person is outgoing.

Famous A famous person is popular.

You can use adjectives
to describe other
Bustling A bustling place is crowded. adjectives.

Bright A bright place is sunny.

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Grammar

1. Beautiful A beautiful place is nice to visit.

2. Old An old monument has a lot of history.

3. Colorful A colourful house is unique.

4. Lively There is a lot going on in a lively bar.

5. Inexpensive An inexpensive restaurant does not cost very much.

6. Popular A popular museum is liked by a lot of people.

7. Boring A boring shop is not interesting.

8. Peaceful A peaceful person is very calm.

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Please note

When using many different adjectives, you

should keep in mind which adjectives to use
first.

• Determiners come first

• Example: Two shops

• Quantity and Opinion come second

• Example: Two beautiful shops

• Age, Size, Color, Shape, Origin, etc come at the end

• Example: Two beautiful, modern and pink shops.

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Vocabulary

Exciting
Contemporary

Inspiring
Charming

Historic Mysterious

Industrial
Alive

Bustling
Picturesque
Charming Famous

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Vocabulary

Adventurous Bright
Touristy Rural
Normal Urban
Artistic Crowded
Beautiful Calm
Ugly Safe
Expensive Dangerous

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Review

1. Peaceful A calm and relaxed person.

2. Touristy A busy and crowded restaurant.

3. Magical A mysterious , interesting and dangerous village.

4. Unique A colorful , alive and different shop.

We often have two, three or more adjectives in

front of a noun. In this case the word and and
commas are used in between the adjectives.

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Exercises

Writing

Find the opposite of the adjectives.

Word 1 Word 2
1) Cold   Dangerous
2) Safe   Hot
3) Sweet   Calm
4) Crowded   Boring
5) Urban   Rural
6) Interesting   Salty

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Exercises

Writing
Write a paragraph that describes where you
are now.
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Exercises

Writing
See what adjectives you can fit to describe
different places in the same season.
1) Mexico in the winter is…
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2) Berlin in the winter is…

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Exercises

Speaking

Describe one of the places in the list below

to your partner, until they guess which one
you are talking about.

1) Berlin
2) Mexico
3) Rio de Janeiro
4) Amsterdam
5) Los Angeles

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Exercises

Writing

Assess which word fits with the example

1) Mysterious  Strong  Magic  Interesting

2) Adventurous  Inspiring  Dull  Exciting
3) Popular  Charming  Positive  Friendly
4) Urban  Crowded  Busy  Alive
5) Picturesque  Colourful  Bright  Intelligent
6) Sweet  Spicy  Sour  Ugly

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Exercises

Speaking
Put the words below into the boxes to qualify if
they are positive, negative or neutral
adjectives for people.
Adventurous – Affectionate – Amazing - Artistic – Beautiful – Brave – Bright – Careful –
Charming – Cheerful – Clumsy – Confident – Curious – Discreet – Dull – Drunk – Independent
– Energetic – Friendly – Generous – Intelligent – Kind – Lazy – Modest – Naïve – Normal – Old-
fashioned – Passionate – Playful – Proud – Punctual – Positive – Quick – Reserved – Respected
– Selfish – Silly – Sweet – Strong – Tired – Ugly – Weak.

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Exercises

Writing
Describe the following hypothetical situations
with the adjectives you have learned.

1) If you feel confident…

2) If a town is ugly…
3) If you are in an amazing place…
4) If you meet an old-fashioned person…

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Exercises

Writing

Formulate sentences using these words.

1) my – kind – generous – and – friends – are – very – .

2) your – in – people – the – are – city – cheerful –?

3) interesting – are – when – they – also – creative – people – are - .

4) my – beautiful – and – , – sweet – positive – girlfriend – is – !

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Exercises

Speaking

What adjectives would you like your ideal

partner to have or not have? Use the words
below to describe them.
Adventurous – Affectionate – Amazing - Artistic – Beautiful – Brave – Bright
– Careful – Charming – Cheerful – Clumsy – Confident – Curious – Discreet –
Dull – Drunk – Independent – Energetic – Friendly – Generous – Intelligent –
Kind – Lazy – Modest – Naïve – Normal – Old-fashioned – Passionate –
Playful – Proud – Punctual – Positive – Quick – Reserved – Respected –
Selfish – Silly – Sweet – Strong – Tired – Ugly – Weak.

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