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· VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
· UPPER-INTERMEDIATE (B2-C1)
EXTREME
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Extremely good/bad
Study the following adjectives and put them into the correct categories below.
appalling
awesome
brilliant
dreadful
horrendous
terrible
terrific
wonderful
Extremely good:
Extremely bad:
If you want to make an extreme adjective sound more extreme, you can use the word ‘absolutely’,
e.g. absolutely brilliant, absolutely dreadful. But you cannot use ‘absolutely’ with ordinary adjectives.
Work in pairs. Take turns to describe something with an adjective above. Continue until all the
adjectives have been used. For example: "Spain’s performance in the World Cup was absolutely horrendous."
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From ordinary to extreme
Match the extreme adjectives to the ordinary adjectives below.
agonizing
critical
effortless
filthy
hilarious
mouthwatering
penniless
perilous
spotless
vast
1.
painful
3.
dirty
5.
clean
7.
funny
9.
2.
easy
4.
large
6.
tasty
8.
poor
10. serious
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Complete the dialogue below with the extreme adjectives from page 1. More than one answer may
be possible in some cases.
A:
So, how was your trip?
B:
Well, I got to see lots of fascinating places. But I spent most of the time traveling by train —
the country is so
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!
A:
I can imagine. And what was your impression of the cities?
B:
You know, the cities are full of contrasts. The centers are so clean — in fact, they’re absolutely
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. Yet if you go into the poor areas, you see some really
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places.
A:
And what were the locals like?
B:
The locals were very friendly. Most people that I met were not particularly well-off, but some
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of them were absolutely
— they couldn’t afford more than one meal a day.
A:
Did you try to speak the local language?
B:
Well, I’d already studied the language for 5 years, so having a basic conversation was
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. But longer discussions were still a bit challenging.
A:
And what about the food?
B:
The food was delicious. Some of the dishes I tried were absolutely
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. So I’d
definitely recommend the cuisine.
A:
Sounds nice. Oh, I also wanted to ask — did you travel in the east of the country?
B:
No, I didn’t. There’s a serious conflict going on there and I’ve heard that traveling in that
region can be really
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. So I decided to skip it. But I visited the seaside.
A:
How was the sea?
B:
Well, unfortunately I got stung by a jellyfish on my first day. It took me a week to fully recover!
A:
Was it painful?
B:
Painful? Yeah, it was really
!
Work with a partner. Take turns to describe a place you have visited using extreme adjectives.
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Homework
Your friend wants to visit your home town or country. Write an email recommending which places
or cities he/she should visit, which areas should be avoided, the best time of the year to come and
when he/she should avoid coming. Use as many extreme adjectives as possible.
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Word families
Complete the table and then the sentences below with appropriate nouns like in the example.
Adjective
Noun
Adjective
Noun
filthy
filth
exhausted
exhaustion
perilous
hilarious
vast
ecstatic
effortless
starving
brilliant
terrified
1.
Matt was suffering from exhaustion after completing the marathon.
2.
Jamie was filled with
3.
It was Mark’s first time jumping out of a plane. You could see the look of
after winning the lottery.
on his
face.
during the famine.
4.
Many people died of
5.
You can truly experience the
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He managed to win the game with a broken foot. Everyone appreciated the
of the Pacific Ocean when you travel by ship.
of
his performance.
7.
Google’s Translate tool can be the source of great
. Some of the translations really
make you laugh.
8.
This part of the town is filled with so much
— nobody wants to come here.
Now choose 5 nouns from the table and make your own sentence for each word.
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