The best Valentine’s Day adjective word order practice

The best Valentine’s Day adjective word order practice

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

• a traditional long red rose
• freshly-cut wild spring flowers
• a large well-arranged bunch of pretty aromatic seasonal flowers
• a huge square box of delicious dark chocolates
• a fat golden ring
• a bottle of vintage single-malt whiskey
• a fancy candle-lit French meal
• a mysterious anonymous Valentine’s Day card
• a cute store-bought Valentine’s Day card
• a unique hand-drawn Valentine’s Day card
• a big chilled bottle of expensive dry fizzy wine
• an elaborate secret marriage proposal
• an enormous fluffy pink teddy bear
• a classic sentimental romantic comedy
• long silver earrings
• a well-planned evening date
• tasteful designer jewellery
• shareable romantic photos
• a memorable homemade dinner
• an amazing unexpected surprise
• a rich fit good-looking date
• a heavy pink diamond
• a well-wrapped cardboard box tied with a red silk ribbon
• unforgettable shared memories
• a small crystal bottle of exotic musk perfume
• some fancy Italian silk clothes
• an indulgent chilled cream cake
• a fun day-long trip
• a classy waterproof platinum watch
• a stay in a stylish beachside hotel
• a calm relaxing day without your kids

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.

Valentine’s Day 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 long red traditional rose
• freshly-cut spring wild flowers
• a large well-arranged bunch
• aromatic pretty seasonal flowers
• a huge square box
• dark delicious chocolates
• a fat golden ring
• single-malt vintage whiskey
• a candle-lit fancy French meal
• an anonymous mysterious Valentine’s Day card
• a cute store-bought Valentine’s Day card
• a hand-drawn unique Valentine’s Day card
• a big chilled bottle
• dry expensive fizzy wine
• an elaborate secret marriage proposal
• an enormous fluffy pink teddy bear
• a classic romantic sentimental comedy
• long silver earrings
• an evening well-planned date
• designer tasteful jewellery
• romantic shareable photos
• a homemade memorable dinner
• an amazing unexpected surprise
• a fit good-looking rich date
• a heavy pink diamond
• a cardboard well-wrapped box
• tied with a red silk ribbon
• shared unforgettable memories
• a crystal small bottle
• exotic musk perfume
• some fancy Italian silk clothes
• a chilled cream indulgent cake
• a day-long fun trip
• a classy platinum waterproof watch
• a stay in a beachside stylish hotel
• a calm relaxing day without your kids

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

Change groups. Make a list of the ten most important things/ most desirable things for Valentine’s Day 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

amazing anonymous aromatic beachside beautiful/ pretty big/ large black and white candle-lit chilled/ cold classic classy colourful crystal cute dark day-long delicious designer elaborate emerald enormous/ huge exciting exotic expensive fancy fashionable fat fizzy fluffy French fresh fun golden hand-drawn handmade handsome (un)healthy heavy hot/ warm imaginative impressive indulgent Instagrammable Italian long

luxury/ five-star memorable mysterious over-the-top passionate pink platinum reasonable red relaxing rich romantic ruby satin savoury seasonal secret sentimental sexy shareable shared shiny short silk silver simple/ basic small/ tiny soft spring square store-bought stylish sweet tasteful thick thin traditional unexpected unforgettable unique vintage waterproof well… wild

Ø  bottle of… Ø  box of… Ø  bracelet Ø  breakfast Ø  cake Ø  candy Ø  card Ø  champagne/ wine Ø  chocolate Ø  clothes Ø  date Ø  day Ø  dessert/ sweet Ø  diamond/ jewel Ø  dinner Ø  drink Ø  earring Ø  evening Ø  flower Ø  handbag/ accessory Ø  holiday/ vacation Ø  hotel Ø  jewellery Ø  journey/ trip Ø  lunch Ø  marriage proposal Ø  massage Ø  meal Ø  memory Ø  message Ø  movie/ comedy Ø  music Ø  necklace/ chain Ø  night Ø  perfume/ aftershave Ø  photo Ø  poem Ø  present/ gift Ø  ring Ø  rose Ø  song Ø  teddy bear/ soft toy Ø  video Ø  (wrist)watch Ø  whiskey

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