***** Shhh... KEEP YOUR ENGLISH UP TO DATE in progress Which TV programme do you think is excellent? What type of food do you find delicious? Which shop do you think is great? So, todays about - adjectives. :) Professor David Crystal is one of the worlds foremost experts on language. He has selected another 24 words and expressions that have recently made it into the language, if not necessarily into dictionaries. - BBC Learn English 1 Lets go through some new vocab first: * valley girls - young,wealthy, middle-class women from California, US * cool - fashionable, especially for young people * profound wonder - a strong feeling of amazement * weaken - to make something less strong * intense - very strong or powerful * dated - old-fashioned 2 Listen to Professor Crystal. Does the new use of this word have a positive or negative meaning? 3 Here are some more adjectives similar to awesome, and theyre jumbled in the sentences. Reorder the letters and check your ideas in the Comment: a I think David Beckham was a truly trage footballer. b Your essay is texnellex. Well done. c The young actors performance is utterly rubesp. d The design of the new skyscraper is simply gunstnin. e Robin van Persie scored a truly decinbreli goal the other day. Have fun! :D
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:49:50 +0000
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