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ACTIVITY TITLE: Strong Adjectives

AIM OF THE ACTIVITY: Boost and improve students knowledge on extreme adjectives ESTIMATED DURATION: 55 minutes session MATERIALS NEEDED: Copies of the attached documents for students and projector ATTACHED DOCUMENTS: Activities worksheets and answer sheets for the teacher. SUGGESTED LEVEL: B2

!PROCEDURE !1.- PROJECTING PICTURES A ( 10 mins.) Teacher projects a picture and the class tries to guess what the best adjective to describe the situation could be. !!2.- SHEET 1 (20 min) In pairs, students try to complete the sheet for 5 minutes. After that, students gather in groups of four for another 5 minutes, Students are encouraged to write as many adjectives as they are able to as long as they are correct. Then groups put answers in common under teacher surveillance and corrections. !!3.- GUESS THE ADJECTIVE-1 (20 min) A member of the team in the groups of four reads out the sentence without saying the adjective underlined. The resto of the members of the team have to try to guess the adjective missing. They take turns to do that and the teacher keeps the board completed in SHEET 1 so that students can have some help. !!4.- CORRECTING MISTAKES -2 (15 min) Once they have finished completing the sentences with the adjectives, all groups put answers in common and explain why they have chosen their options. Teacher offers help explaining what the best option is if necessary. !

Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Erasmus + Project : 2014-1-ES01-KA101-002752

!!Strong adjetives !!!!!

really..... really......, absolutely.......

good very good excellent/brilliant/awesome

bad very bad horrible/terrible/awful

big very big Huge/gigantic/massive

small

crowed

Hungry

tired

angry

pleased

dissapointed

hot

cold

nice

clean

(never with "very")

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Strong adjetives !!!!really..... really......, absolutely.......

good very good excellent/brilliant/awesome

bad very bad horrible/terrible/awful

big very big gigantic/Huge/massive

small very small tiny

crowed very crowed pocket

Hungry very hungry starving/

tired very tired exhausted/shootened

angry very Angry furious/livid

pleased very pleased chuffed

disappointed very disappointed gutted

hot very hot boiling

cold very cold freezing

nice very nice lovely

clean very clean spotless

(never with "very")