Intensifying Adverbs

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Teacher: Arturo Campos

Secondary Level
I E P San Luis
English Department

INTENSIFYING ADVERBS

Adjective Extreme Adjective Adjective Extreme Adjective


angry furious bad awful, terrible

big huge, gigantic pretty gorgeous, beautiful

clean spotless cold freezing

crowded packed nice lovely

dirty filthy funny hilarious

good fantastic, excellent hot boiling

disappointed gutted hungry starving

interesting fascinating old ancient

tasty delicious pretty gorgeous


sad miserable scary terrifying

happy elated small tiny

surprising astounding tired exhausted

ugly hideous long endless

expensive exorbitant

EXERCISES
I Match the adverbs in A with the adjectives in B to make common collocations.
A absolutely bitterly deeply highly highly ridiculously strongly
B expensive freezing probable regret successful suggest Touched
II Which words does not collocate with the adverb?
1 deeply believe moving religious
2 ridiculously cheap easy imposible
3 highly cold unsual unlikely
4 strongly recommend beleve care
5 totally amazing large understand
II Complete the sentences with a suitable adjective from the box.
starving boiling hot enormous fascinating tiny astonished filthy
brilliant exhausted furious essential terrible gorgeous packed freezing
1.- When will lunch be ready? We ‘re starving.
2.- Can you close the window? I’m freezing.
3.- My cousins live in an enormous house. It has got eight bedrooms, three bathrooms, two
living rooms …
4.- Susan looks gorgeous in her new dress
5.- We went to the cinema yesterday evening and we watched a fascinating film.
6.- My parents will be furious if we are late again.
7.- The floor was covered in tiny bits of paper.
8.- Wash your hands before dinner. They are filthy.
9.- Paul’s been working all day. He looks exhausted.
10.- The food in the hotel was terrible. We didn’t have any meal while we stayed there.
11.- Einstein was a brillant scientist.
12.- Open the windows, please. I’m boiling hot.
13.- Computer are nowadays an essential part of our lives.
14.- We were astonished at the extraordinary beauty of the pictures.

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