😲 Grammar B1-11: -ed / -ing adjectives

The eleventh material of the Fleydo B1 grammar series, built on the one mistake in this syllabus that is socially expensive rather than merely wrong. The opening image is an arrow: Jade’s accidental tax-law documentary sends boredom out into the room, and Jade receives it — the film is boring, Jade is bored. Every pair in the lesson is taught as one feeling with two seats: -ing on the source that causes it, -ed on the feeler who catches it. A table builds all eleven high-value pairs out of their verbs — bore, interest, excite, tire, surprise, confuse, embarrass, disappoint, relax, amaze, frighten — each with a source example and a feeler example, and two note-boxes dismantle the false rule before it forms: noun type never decides, because an interesting speaker causes a feeling and a surprised face wears one. The choosing procedure runs on four questions ending in the makes-me test, walked through three worked runs — the tiring coach ride, the interesting grandmother, and thirty surprised faces. The compare-and-verdict pair is the heart of the material: Marta is boring against Marta is bored, both perfectly grammatical, one a personality review and one a quiet afternoon — which is why nobody ever corrects the slip out loud. A 130-word museum-trip report carries twelve tappable choices including both tricky seats. Practice runs to thirty-one explained multiple-choice items in four sets, plus twelve situations to sort into cause and catch, six commit-then-peek reveal cards, six real learner repairs, and three traps: the one-letter personality review, things that cause but cannot feel, and the bare verb where the adjective belongs. Teacher notes give a 45-minute sequence, the two-chairs board move, the makes-me rescue, and Cambridge B1 Preliminary relevance.