1. Are You Bored or Boring?
For a review of spelling rules addressing how to add –ed and –ing to verbs, see eslprintables PowerPoints
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2. What is happening in this picture?
Tom Bob
Blah, blah, blah…
Mmmmmmm…
What is happening in this picture?
What do you think Tom is thinking? Bob?

3. Have you ever been in a situation like this?
I am SO not interested!
Wow, I’m so interesting!
He is boring me to death!
What I’m saying is really interesting!
Tom Bob
Would someone please just get me out of here?!
He’s interested in what I’m saying!
Have you ever been in a situation like this?

4. Emotion Verbs  Adjectives
There are many verbs which have to do to with emotions or feelings, such as:
excite
interest
amaze
irritate
horrify
Many of these verbs can be modified to form adjectives.

5. -ing and –ed pairs exciting excited
There are many pairs of adjectives derived from such verbs, for example:
exciting excited
interesting interested
amazing amazed
irritating irritated
horrifying horrified
Can you think of others?
Additional possibilities:
frighten
amuse
fascinate
frustrate
excite
bore
confuse
terrify
alarm
annoy
astonish
bewilder
concern
convince
depress
disappoint
disgust
embarrass
encourage
entertain
exhaust
humiliate
inspire
intrigue
overwhelm
perplex
please
puzzle
relax
satisfy
shock
surprise
tire
worry

6. What’s the difference?
When we talk about emotions or feelings, we divide people or things into two categories, based on whether they
cause the emotion (the “Source”) or
experience the emotion (the “Experiencer”)

7. The contortionist was amazing.
Source
A Source can be a thing or a person.
When we talk about a Source, we use the –ing form.
The contortionist was amazing.

8. Experiencer Usually an Experiencer is a person.
An Experiencer experiences the emotion or feeling.
An Experiencer is affected by the Source.
When we talk about an Experiencer, we use the –ed form.

9. The children were amazed by the contortionist.
Source
Experiencers

10. frighten
The movie is ________________.
The girls are ________________.

11. The movie is frightening . The girls are frightened .
(Source)
The girls are frightened
(Experiencers)

12. amuse
This family is ________________.
The TV show is ______________.

13. amuse This family is amused . The TV show is amusing . (Experiencers)
(Source)

14. Julian Beever’s street art is ____________.
fascinate
Julian Beever’s street art is ____________.
I am ________ by Julian Beever’s street art.
For more info on Julian Beever:

15. Julian Beever’s street art is fascinating .
fascinate
Julian Beever’s street art is fascinating .
(Source)
I am fascinated by Julian Beever’s street art.
(Experiencer)

16. The woman is _______________. The computer is _____________.
frustrate
The woman is _______________.
The computer is _____________.

17. The woman is frustrated . The computer is frustrating .
(Experiencer)
The computer is frustrating .
(Source)

18. excite
What is so ___________?
These people are really _________.

19. These people are really __excited .
What is so _exciting ?
(Source)
These people are really __excited .
(Experiencers)

20. bore
This teacher is ________.
These students are _________.

21. These students are bored .
This teacher is boring .
(Source)
These students are bored .
(Experiencers)

22. Of course, maybe the teacher
is bored, too!

23. Your turn Make up a pair of sentences using this verb and picture:
confuse

24. Your turn Make up a pair of sentences using this verb and picture:
terrify