Adjectives- Discuss and Agree with -ed & -ing adjectives

ed and ing adjectives discuss and agree

Working in pairs or small groups, try to make as many sentences as you can with -ed and -ing adjectives that everyone in your group agrees with. You can only use each adjective once, but you can use both the -ed and -ing versions of the same adjective and/ or different words with the same meaning to make different sentences.

Suggested phrases for -ed and -ing adjectives

• We both/ all think that… is…
• We both/ all think that… are…
• We both/ all feel… when we…
• We both/ all would feel… if we…
• We both/ all have… and we found it…
• We both/ all agree that… is the most… (in this city/ in this country/ in the world).
• We both/ all imagine that… would be…
• We both/ all felt… the last time that we…
• We both/ all felt… the first time that we…
• We both/ all think that the sound/ taste/ smell/ feeling/ texture/ appearance of… is….
• We both/ all think that… is more… than…
• We both/ all think that… is …er than…

Suggested -ed and -ing adjectives

Some are not -ed/ -ing pairs, in which case the other one is in brackets below

• annoyed/ annoying
• ashamed/ (shameful)
• bored/ boring
• challenged/ challenging
• confused/ confusing
• delighted/ (delightful)
• disgusted/ disgusting
• embarrassed/ embarrassing
• excited/ exciting
• exhausted/ exhausting
• fascinated/ fascinating
• frightened/ frightening
• interested/ interesting
• relaxed/ relaxing
• satisfied/ satisfying
• stressed/ (stressful)
• terrified/ terrifying
• thrilled/ thrilling
• tired/ tiring

Share some sentences with the class and see if anyone else agrees, then try to find or think of words with similar and opposite meanings to those above.