adjectives vs. adverbs
Choose the correct word: She sings (beautiful / beautifully).
She sings beautifully.
Who gave the “I Have a Dream” speech?
→ Martin Luther King Jr.
The chef cooks dinner.
→ Dinner is cooked by the chef.
Complete the sentence:
She ______ (already eat) before she left the house.
had already eaten
What is the capital of the USA?
→ Washington, D.C.
Identify the adjective and the adverb in the sentence: He ran quickly to the red car.
Adjective: red, Adverb: quickly
What was the purpose of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
→ To protest segregation on public buses.
Choose passive or active:
The song (sings / is sung) by Adele.
→ is sung
Choose the correct form:
They (had gone / went) to bed before it got dark.
→ had gone
Name the two major political parties in the USA.
→ Democratic Party and Republican Party
Rewrite using an adverb:
He is a careful driver.
He drives carefully.
Who was Harriet Tubman, and what did she do?
→ She was a former slave who helped many others escape via the Underground Railroad.
Change to passive:
They finished the project yesterday.
The project was finished yesterday.
Make a sentence using past perfect and simple past:
Example: He had finished his homework before his friends arrived.
Who was the first president of the United States?
→ George Washington
Explain the difference.
She looked angry vs. She looked angrily.
“Angry” describes how she looked (her emotion). “Angrily” means she looked in an angry way (her action).
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
The Jim Crow Laws enforced racial segretation so that PoC and white people had different rights.
Form a question in passive:
Did he paint the picture?
→ Was the picture painted by him?
Find the mistake and correct it:
When I arrived, she had goes to school.
→ Corrected: she had gone to school.
How many states does the USA have?
50
Correct and explain: He speaks very good Englishly.
→ Corrected: He speaks English very well.
Explanation: "English" is a noun, "well" is the adverb that describes the verb "speaks."
What was the goal of the Civil Rights Movement?
→ To gain equal rights for African Americans.
Fill in the passive:
The book __________ (write) in 1865 and still __________ (read) today.
→ was written, is read
Turn this into a question in the past perfect:
He had called her before the meeting.
→ Had he called her before the meeting?
Name two important American symbols.
Examples: the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty, the American flag