adverbs of manner

Adverbs of manner are usually formed from adjectives by adding –ly:

bad > badly; quiet > quietly; recent > recently; sudden > suddenly

but there are sometimes changes in spelling:

y > i

easy > easily;

happy > happily

But there are some exceptions

Dry >dryly

Shy> shyly

Sly >slyly

le >ly

gentle > gently

sensible>sensibly

possible>possibly

If an adjective ends in –ly we use the phrase in a …. way to express manner:

Silly > He behaved in a silly way.
Friendly > She spoke in a friendly way.

Pay attention!!!

complete>completely

attractive>attractively

but true>truly

al>ally

historical>historically

ic>ally

logic>logically

specific>specifically

l>ly

careful>carefully

punctual>punctually

·         These adverbs follow the verb they refer to

I drive carefully

I drive my car carefully

I drive carefully my car

·         They follow the object

I speak English well

·         They are before adverbs and expressions of time and place

He always sings loudly in the afternoon

A few adverbs of manner have the same form as the adjective:

Early

Fast

Hard

High

Late

Long

Low

Near

Straight

Two adverbs may have a different meaning

He works really hard                    I hardly know him

He never arrives late                  I haven’t been to the cinema lately

He’s aiming high                         I don’t think highly of her

Children can enter free                He spoke freely to me

We often use phrases with like as adverbials of manner:

She slept like a baby.
He ran like a rabbit.

Adverbs of manner and link verbs

We very often use adverbials with like after link verbs:

Her hands felt like ice.
It smells like fresh bread.

But we do not use other adverbials of manner after link verbs. We use adjectives instead:

They looked happily happy.
That bread smells deliciously delicious.

My smartphone

This is what a student in the first class has written about smartphones
Writing activity.....what can you do with your smartphone?


  My smartphone

My phone is my life because I can do everything with my phone.

First, I  can take photos and see photos. I can make videos and watch videos. I can play games and send text messages.

Secondly, I can make calls to my mother, my father, my sister, my friends...

Thirdly, I can listen to music, surf the Net and I can go on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Musically and Whatsapp....

I can also watch videos on Youtube. I can know what the weather will be like and I can read my e-mails, too.

What's more, I use my phone as a calculator when I do maths.

Finally, my phone is like a friend to me because I always carry it with me at school...in the gym , for example.

I'd say that it's the most useful thing in the world.

The things of my phone that I hate are when the battery is discharged and when I can't connect on the Internet.

" My life is impossible without my smartphone!!!"

Creative writing

I gave the students the following information

Sir Percy has been killed in the library of the old castle where he lived.

WHO KILLED SIR PERCY?

The suspects

Sir Percy’s wife

Sir Percy’s son

Diane the maid

Ben the butler

Sir Percy’s mistress

The students were asked to imagine the kind of questions the inspector is going to ask the suspects and then invent a story identifying the possible culprit and his or her motive

QUESTIONS

• Where were you when Sir Percy was murdered?
• What were you doing?
• Where did you last see Sir Percy?
• Which room were you when Sir Percy was murdered?
• Have you had any arguments or problems recently?
• Has anything strange happened recently?
• How long have you known Sir Percy?
• How long ago did you know Sir Percy?
• In your opinion, did Sir Percy have any enemies?
• Did you notice anything strange that day?
• Did you see anybody going into the library at the time of the murder?

Sir Percy was murdered by Diana, the maid, because several years ago Sir Percy  had killed the maid’s nephew in a car crash.

In fact Diana was upset, she loved him like a son.

She had brought up her nephew, because the baby hadn’t had a father and the mother had escaped in search for luck, to become an actress.

So Diana was employed by Sir Percy, who didn’t know anything about Diana’s nephew, and when all the people in the house trusted her she poisoned Sir Percy.

Few nights ago Sir Percy was murdered. A detective is investigating the case. The suspects are Sir Percy’s wife, Sir Percy’s wife, sir Percy’s son, Diane the maid, Ben the Butler and Sir Percy’s mistress.

He was murdered in his library. The detective asked the suspects some questions.Sir Percy’s wife did not know her husband’s mistress so she had no motives.

Sir Percy’s mistress looked at the maid with contempt ….so that led the detective to question the mistress. He found a knife in the mistress’s bag and after having asked her some questions he found out the truth. The mistress killed Sir Percy because she had found out that the maid was in love with Sir Percy and she believed that the two were lovers so she got mad with jealousy and killed Sir Percy.

Sir Percy was stabbed with a knife. He was murdered on Saturday night in his library while he was reading. In my opinion the murderer is Sir Percy’s son because he’s a cook and the knife used by the murderer is a special knife which is usually used by a cook.

What’s more, I found out that Sir Percy had an illegitimate child born from his relationship with the mistress. When Sir Percy’s son found out this fact the same day of the murder, he stabbed his father in a fit of madness and jealousy.

Sir Percy’s mistress, who was jealous of Sir Percy’s love towards his wife used to talk to Ben the butler, who was in love with her, about her sorrow.

Ben the butler and Diane the maid used to share information. Diane was also really close to Sir Percy’s wife, so she told her about the relationship.

Sir Percy’s son heard the conversation and knew his mother was suffering, so he sneaked out at night and killed his father.

Shakespeare Sonnet 18

Sonnet 18 

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

A famous sonnet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

Here it's sung by David Gilmour

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

And summer's lease hath all too short a date

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

MODERN TEXT

Shall I compare you to a summer day?

 You’re more lovely and milder. 

Rough winds shake the pretty buds of May, 

and summer doesn’t last nearly long enough. 

Sometimes the sun shines too hot, 

and often its golden face is darkened by clouds. 

And everything beautiful stops being beautiful, 

either by accident or simply in the course of nature. 

But your eternal summer will never fade, 

nor will you lose possession of your beauty, 

nor shall death brag that you are wandering in the underworld, 

once you’re captured in my eternal verses.

 As long as men are alive and have eyes with which to see, 

this poem will live and keep you alive

Opposite Adjectives

Generally speaking, students in the first class know few adjectives.

The purpose of the following  lesson, which we did yesterday, is to help them get to know some more adjectives.
Of course, I had to focus on a topic and give them  the adjectives relating to that topic.
Our topic is one they like very much: SMARTPHONES.

I gave each of them a piece of paper where they could read an adjective. Another student in the class had the opposite one. Their first task was to find the student having the opposite adjective.Then they were asked to build up a sentence where they could use the word smartphone and the  adjective.
Given the following adjectives:

Great                                                                                 Awful

Helpful                                                                              Useless

Convenient                                                                        Inconvenient

Amazing                                                                            Ordinary

Expensive                                                                         Cheap

Beautiful                                                                           Ugly

Big                                                                                     Small

New                                                                                   Old

Up-to-date                                                                        Old

The students created the following sentences:

My smartphone is really up-to-date

My smartphone isn't old

I've got an awful internet connection on my smartphone

 The cover of my smartphone is amazing

My smartphone is ordinary. It isn't great.

That smartphone is inconvenient, because it's expensive

That smartphone in the shop is very convenient

My smartphone is really helpful, because it may do lots of things

My smartphone is useless because it's broken

I can use my smartphone very well, because it's user-friendly

I can't use my smartphone very often because it's difficult to use

My smartphone has got an ugly design

My smartphone has a beautiful design

My smartphone is old

My smartphone is new

My smartphone is cheap, because it's small

That smartphone is expensive, I'll not buy it! 

Each student dictated his /her sentence to the other classmates.

So, you could say that this was a writing activity, but at the same time it was a listening activity, as well.

In addtion, they learnt new words like up-to-date,cheap, awful and user-friendly. 

Next time, we'll focus on smartphone addiction.