Adverbs of manner

o The children are preparing the

scenery for the school play.
Put it down carefully!
The paint is still wet.

• Complete the table.

Regular Irregular
Adjective Adverb Adjective Adverb
tight tightly good well
careful carefully fast fast
loud hard hard
quiet
happy
easy
• Read the information.

Use • For adjectives that end in -y, we change

• Adjectives describe a thing or person: -y to -i and then add -Iy:
She's a good singer. He's a slow worker. happy" happily
• Adverbs of manner describe an action. noisy" noisily
They tell us how someone does • These adverbs are irregular. We do not
something: form them with -Iy:
She sings well. He works slowly. good •• well fast" fast hard" hard
Form and spelling • Adverbs of manner come after the verb:
Mrs Smith walks slowly. Peter runs fast.
• To form adverbs of manner, we add -Iy to
an adjective: • fast and hard can be adjectives or
adjectives.
slow" slowly quick" quickly
Brian runs fast. Brian is a fast runner.
loud" loudly polite" politely

e Complete with adverbs.

I Aunt Agatha is a careful driver. She drives. c;ar.efu.l.ly'.
2 Harry is a bad player. He plays .
3 Mrs Hardy is a good cook. She cooks .
4 Peter's a fast swimmer. He swims .
S Mr Hardy's a hard worker. He works .
b Lucy is a slow writer. She writes . . .
7 Mr Davis is a quiet speaker. He speaks .
8 Beth is a neat writer. She writes .

G Put the words in the correct column.

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Adjective Adverb Adjective or adverb

..dClrl9~rOLJs .. .............. ... .................
................. ................. . ................

................. . ................

................. . ................
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 Choose and complete.
(careful, carefull~)
a Th'ISISver~
.. Important. Rd'
ea It carefull/l ::1
b You can use m~ camera, but be ver~ ..ca.refu.t. ..... with it.
2 (eas~, easil~)
a Of course I can do this exercise! It's ver~ .
b Kell~ makes friends .
3 (quiet, quietly)
a Please be Sarah's doing her homework.
b 'The bab~'s asleep,' m~ mum said .
4 (beautiful, beautifull~)
a She sings ....
b Those flowers are .
5 (safe, safel~)
a Don't walk on that bridge. It isn't .
b B~e, Dad! Drive .

G Choose and complete.

Hi Izumi,
The school play is tomorrow, but the scenery isn't ready. Actually, it was ready, but my silly
brother fell on the scenery yesterday and destroyed it! He is so 1" .. , .. , .... , .. ,,! It's not fair!
We worked really 2.,."., .. "., .. , in my Art class to make it and now we must start again! Luckily,
Peter wasn't hurt 3 ,., .. ,.. He's only got a scratch on his knee.

The team from my Art class is great! We can all draw really 4 ."." .. ,.. ,., . We have
photographs of the things we want to paint and we draw them 5., .. , .. , .. , ..... on big pieces of
paper. Then we add the colours. We must be very 6., ,., .. , .. , .. ,., because the paint dries
7
Bye for now,
Lucy

G Write sentences in the present simple. Use an adjective or adverb.

I Luc~ / be / good / at Art Jucy ..;~.!J.0o~..att\rt. .
2 Peter / sometimes / work / careless ................ . .
3 Harr~ and Beth / alwa~s / work / hard .
4 English / be / eas~ . .
5 our teacher / speak / clear . .
b Beth / be / alwa~s / polite ....................................... ........... . .
7 Liz's mum / alwa~s / drive / slow .
S Peter's room / be / ver~ untid~ .
9 1/ can't / draw / ver~ good .

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10 that stor~ / be / ver~ funn~ .
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e Choose an adverb to complete the sentences so they are true for you.

I I work in class. 4 My best friend speaks English .

2 I write my homework . 5 I like to play music .
3 Our teacher sometimes speaks very . b I sing .

Writing practice

o Read the review in TeenLink about the school play. Then choose a word and
complete with its adjective or adverb form.

Prince Rupert the Donkey

The play is about a donkey. Rupert. Rupert works hClrcJ
1.. all day. He wants to
be a man and stop working. One day. a good witch turns him into a prince - he is now
Prince Rupert Donkey. He meets the 2 Princess Julia and falls in love with her.
The only problem is that he can't speak 3................. - no one understands him -
because. in his mind. he is still a donkey!
Helen Barnes was very 4 as Princess Julia. She sang 5 and her
acting was excellent. Tom Good was B as Prince Rupert Donkey - he danced
7 and sang really B -like a real donkey! He was very 9. .
The audience laughed all the time!

«D> Write.
Write a review about this school play for TeenLink. Use Exercise'! as a model. Try to use six
adverbs in your review.

e eee eeee eeeee eec

Wobble the Wizard Youl1.g girl, Jel1.l1.y,works hard but
The is about . very poor.
She meets Wizard Wobble.
Wizard Wobble il1.telligel1.tal1.dkil1.d
but his magic is I1.Otvery good.
Very ful1.l1.Yplay.
Sue Browl1. played JeI1.I1.Y:good sil1.ger.
very pretty ,
Joe Smith played Wobble: ful1.l1.Yvery
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