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Target 8: Describing words (Adjectives and Adverbs)

Part One: Adjectives

Task 1: Adjectives 1 point

A. Here is a selection of adjectives that can be used of ‘big’. Other answers
may also be acceptable – check with your teacher.

enormous large huge massive giant

BIG vast colossal bulky oversized monstrous

immense great substantial towering sizable

Here is a selection of adjectives that can be used of ‘nice’. Other answers
may also be acceptable – check with your teacher.

good lovely kind beautiful pleasant

okay excellent attractive fine good looking
NICE

charming beautiful satisfactory enjoyable pleasing

B. The adjectives are underlined in the sentences below:

1. We looked out of the tiny window and saw a fabulous view of the beautiful
lake.

2. Lucky Mr Smith has won a new car in the weekly raffle.

3. It was a cold, wintery day and the sky was grey and cloudy.

4. I saw a huge, black, hairy spider crawl under my wooden table.

5. Fred’s old barn is dark and spooky but Joe’s old barn is darker and spookier.

(There are twenty adjectives.)

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