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The best Xmas adjective word order practice

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Choosing and arranging the best adjectives with typical Xmas vocabulary, including working out adjective word order rules/ patterns.

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The best Xmas adjective word order practice

With your partner(s), try to agree on the ten best/ most important things from this list.

  • a traditional chocolate-filled advent calendar
  • aromatic alcoholic brandy sauce
  • disgusting over-cooked Brussels sprouts
  • a heavy round iced Christmas cake
  • a long sweet red candy cane
  • cute wintery recycled Christmas cards
  • catchy traditional Christmas carols
  • realistic-looking gold chocolate coins
  • clear sour red cranberry sauce
  • sticky dried dates
  • a freezing-cold snowy Xmas Day
  • a merry filling traditional Xmas dinner
  • weird yellow eggnog
  • a busy traditional German Xmas fair
  • cheerful bright multi-coloured fairy lights
  • thick steaming-hot brown gravy
  • a complicated homemade gingerbread house
  • unfunny old Christmas cracker jokes
  • sweet brightly-coloured easy-to-peel mandarins/ tangerines
  • crumbly freshly-baked mince pies
  • aromatic piping-hot mulled wine
  • a healthy vegetarian nut roast
  • hard-to-use manual nutcrackers
  • a bright-red winter poinsettia
  • exciting loud party poppers
  • crispy brown roast potatoes
  • exciting-looking beautifully-wrapped brightly-coloured rectangular presents
  • a pretty little red-breasted robin
  • a full black cotton sack
  • jolly red-cheeked fat Santa
  • a magic flying sleigh
  • smelly sparkly artificial snow
  • a long knitted Christmas stocking
  • long sparkly silver and gold tinsel
  • a tall green plastic Xmas tree
  • a huge home-cooked stuffed turkey
  • colourful seasonal wrapping paper
  • a prickly real holly wreath

Compare your list with another group, seeing if you can agree on any which you have ranked (very) differently.

Ask about any which you don’t understand, are not sure how to rank, etc, discussing how good or bad they are each time.

 

Xmas things with mixed adjectives

Try to remember or work out what order the adjectives with each noun below should be in. Some are already in the right order.

  • a chocolate-filled traditional advent calendar
  • alcoholic aromatic brandy sauce
  • disgusting over-cooked Brussels sprouts
  • a heavy iced round Christmas cake
  • a long red sweet candy cane
  • cute recycled wintery Christmas cards
  • catchy traditional Christmas carols
  • gold realistic-looking chocolate coins
  • clear red sour cranberry sauce
  • dried sticky dates
  • a freezing-cold snowy Xmas Day
  • a filling merry traditional Xmas dinner
  • weird yellow eggnog
  • a busy German traditional Xmas fair
  • bright cheerful multi-coloured fairy lights
  • brown steaming-hot thick gravy
  • a complicated homemade gingerbread house
  • old unfunny Christmas cracker jokes
  • brightly-coloured easy-to-peel sweet mandarins/ tangerines
  • crumbly freshly-baked mince pies
  • aromatic piping-hot mulled wine
  • a healthy vegetarian nut roast
  • hard-to-use manual nutcrackers
  • a bright-red winter poinsettia
  • exciting loud party poppers
  • brown crispy roast potatoes
  • beautifully-wrapped brightly-coloured exciting-looking rectangular presents
  • a little pretty red-breasted robin
  • a black cotton full sack
  • fat jolly red-cheeked Santa
  • a flying magic sleigh
  • artificial smelly sparkly snow
  • a long knitted Christmas stocking
  • long silver and gold sparkly tinsel
  • a green plastic tall Xmas tree
  • a home-cooked huge stuffed turkey
  • colourful seasonal wrapping paper
  • a prickly real holly wreath

Try to work out the adjective word order pattern/ rule and use that to help. Then check.  

 

Change groups. Make a list of the ten most important/ desirable things for Xmas from your choice of the mixed adjectives and nouns below. You can use any number of adjectives with each noun, but be careful with word order.

a

some

many

(non-)alcoholic

American

antique

aromatic/ smelly

artificial/ plastic

baked/ roast

beautiful/ cute/ pretty

big/ large/ huge

black

bright/ brightly…

British

brown

busy/ lively

catchy

cheap

chocolate(-filled)

circular/ round

clear

(freezing) cold

(multi-)coloured

colourful

complicated

cotton

crispy/ crunchy

crumbly

dried

easy/ easy-to…

empty

exciting

fat

filling

flashing/ twinkling

folded

fresh/ freshly…

fun

full

funny

German

gold

green

hard/ hard-to…

healthy

heavy

home-cooked

homemade 

(piping/ steaming) hot

iced

icy

jolly/ merry/ cheerful

juicy

little/ small/ tiny

local

long

loud/ noisy

luxury

magic

manual

mashed

new

old

prickly

quiet/ peaceful

real/ realistic

rectangular

recycled

red

rich

runny

seasonal

shiny

silver

sliced

snowy

soft

sour

sparkly

square

steaming

sticky

stuffed

sweet

tall

thick

traditional         

vegetarian

winter/ wintery

wool/ woolly/ knitted

yellow

advent calendar

angel

bauble

Brussels sprout

candy cane

chocolate (coin)

Christmas cake

Christmas card

Christmas carol/ song

Christmas crackers

Christmas Day/ Eve

Christmas dinner

Christmas fair

Christmas tree

cranberry sauce

dates/ figs

decorations

eggnog

fairy lights

gingerbread (house/man)

gravy

holly

mandarins/ tangerines

mince pies

mulled wine

New Year’s Day/ Eve

nuts/ nut roast

nutcracker

party poppers

poinsettia

potatoes

presents/ gifts

pudding

sack

Santa (Claus)

(brandy/ bread) sauce

sleigh/ sledge

snow(man/ ball)

star

stocking

tinsel

turkey

wrapping paper

wreath

-s

 

Look at other groups’ lists and vote on the best.

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