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Common adjectives 1
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3. Exercises
22.1 Fill the gaps, as in the example.
1 My hair's awful. I must go to the hairdresser's.
terrible/awful/horrible/bad
2 The weather's _________________________ . I don't want
to go out.
3 The traffic is _________________ in the city centre. Take
terrible / awful
the train.
excellent/great/wonderful
4 That's a(n) _______________________ idea! Let's do it!
horrible/awful
5 How ______________ ! Three exams on the same day!
wonderful/lovely
6 What a _________________ house! The sea is only 100
metres away!
7 My timetable's not ________ . I'm free on Wednesdays and
bad
Fridays.
4. 22.2 What can you say? Someone says to you ...
1 Do you like my new jacket?
_________________________________
Yes, it's very nice. / Yes it's lovely.
2 I have to get up at 4.30 tomorrow morning.
_________________________________
Oh, how awful!
3 Shall we go out for dinner tonight?
_________________________________
That's an excellent idea. or Yes, great!
4 (In your town) Excuse me. Is there a good
restaurant in this town?
_________________________________
Yes, there's the Ritz. It's the best restaurant in town.
5 What sort of person is your English teacher?
_________________________________
She/He's a wonderful person!
5. 22.3 What goes together? Match a description from the left with an
expression from the right.
Draw lines.
1 Blue sky, sun 25°. • a Wonderful news.
2 5 stars (*****), very
famous. • b Awful weather.
3 Bad person. Nobody • c Lovely weather.
likes him/her.
• d An excellent idea.
4 90 out of 100 in an
exam. • e The best hotel in
5 Grey sky, wind, rain, town.
11º.
• f A horrible person.
6 We can take a taxi
6. 22.4 Use a dictionary. Put these new words into the good or bad
column.
dreadful ghastly gorgeous marvellous horrendous fine superb brilliant
Good (+) Bad (-)
gorgeous Dreadful
marvellous ghastly
fine horrendous
superb
brilliant
7. 22.5 Look at the adjectives in 22.4. Think of two nouns to go with each of
the adjectives.
dreadful weather /film
• gorgeous boy/girl
• marvellous weather/food
• fine weather/day
• superb idea/view
• ghastly man/restuarant
• horrendous traffic/person