7C  Adjective snap

Extreme adjectives
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excellent fantastic awful terrible

delighted furious hilarious exhausted

astonished astonishing terrified terrifying

boiling freezing good good

bad bad pleased angry

funny tired surprised surprising

frightened frightening hot cold

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Extreme adjectives

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All about you!
Questionnaire
1 Have you ever been somewhere which was really ?

2 When was the last time you were really ?

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3 Can you think of a very book you’ve read recently?

4 What was the last film you saw that was really ?

5 Have you ever been really ?

6 Have you seen anything very on the news lately?

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7 Have you got any clothes that look really on you?

8 Has anything really happened to you in the last

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few weeks?

9 Do you know any jokes?

10 Have you bought anything recently?

11 Which television programme do you think is ?

12 What’s the most thing that’s ever happened to you?

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Instructions and Answer key
You will need: one set of cut-up adjective cards and one copy of the
Questionnaire per student

STAGE 1
• Students work in groups of three. If there are extra students, have
one or two groups of four.
• Give each student a complete set of adjective cards. Student A places
his/her cards face down in a pile in front of him/her, while Students
B and C lay their cards out face up in front of them.
• Student A then turns over the cards one at a time, saying the word
on the card as he/she places it down on the desk. Students B and C
have to look through their own cards as quickly as possible to find
the matching adjective. (For example, if Student A turns over angry,
Students B and C have to look through their cards for furious.)
• The first student to place the matching card on top of the adjective
card takes the ‘trick’. The winner is the student with the most tricks.
• Students then change over so that someone else is student A, and
play the game again.

STAGE 2
• Give each student a copy of the Questionnaire. Students work
individually and fill in the gaps with a suitable adjective.
• Students then work in pairs and ask each other the questions.
Encourage students to ask suitable follow-up questions where
appropriate.
• Students report back to the class on the most interesting things they
found out about their partners.

ANSWER KEY
good: excellent, fantastic
bad: awful, terrible
pleased: delighted
angry: furious
funny: hilarious
tired: exhausted
surprised: astonished
surprising: astonishing
frightened: terrified
frightening: terrifying
hot: boiling
cold: freezing

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