(Writing) Adjective hunt

Out in the street hunt for the best 10 adjectives you can find...


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The unusual
The onomatopoeic


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The weather in Auckland  is so _______.

I had such a ________ and _________ day yesterday.

Some people are so _________ and _________.

I couldn't come to school yesterday because I was too ________.

I'm not ________ enough to play basketball.

When I see _____ people I...

I feel ____ when...

Because I am so _____, I...

I don't like ____ people because...

Mondays can be _____; especially if...

If you have a ____ friend, try...

Some of the students at EF are a bit ____, but that's OK because....

As you get older you become more and more ______. Therefore you should....

I wish I wasn't so _____. If only I could be more _____!

 A good __________ is ________,_______, and __________.

A good _________ is ________ and ________, but never ________.

I always eat _______ lobsters because they are so ________ and they sometimes make me feel _______. However, I can sometimes be _____ after eating too many.

I need to buy a _______ pair of glasses because my ______ pair is ______. If I give you a ______ amount of money will you buy me some?

Some adjectives my students have collected:

Spicy married chewy international luck short extra-strength awesome little smiley good vegan fat premium juicy roasted Vietnamese swollen Chinese chunky triangular soft fragile limitless handy scary epic daily calm bionic available first classic clear long meaty new sugary lucky haunted delicious dust-free sparkly strong thicksumptious deep refreshing hot alive natural tropical sexual red white lebanese black daily loveable unmixed

Try to write sentences that are unexpected but still kind of make sense. Try to use more than one adjective per noun.

A good vegan is little and fragile, but never calm, smiley or loveable.

I need to buy a thicksumptious, extra-strength pair of glasses because my dust-free, sparkly pair is fragile. If I give you a scary, chunky amount of money will you buy me some?

Try modifying the words you've found into another form

E.g.

Noun - mariage
Verb - to marry
Adverb - ?
Negative form of the adjective - unmarried


Noun - depth
Verb - deepen
Adverb - deeply
Negative form of the adjective - ?


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(Advanced) Every Political Debate Ever

Every political debate ever

(Upper Intermediate) Japan ninja student gets top marks for writing essay in invisible ink

A Japanese student of ninja history who handed in a blank paper was given top marks - after her professor realised the essay was written in invisible ink.

Eimi Haga followed the ninja technique of "aburidashi", spending hours soaking and crushing soybeans to make the ink.

The words appeared when her professor heated the paper over his gas stove.

"It is something I learned through a book when I was little," Ms Haga told the BBC. "I just hoped that no-one would come up with the same idea."

Ms Haga has been interested in ninjas - covert agents and assassins in medieval Japan - since watching an animated TV show as a child.

After enrolling at Mie University in Japan, the first-year student took a class in ninja history, and was asked to write about a visit to the Ninja Museum of Igaryu.

"When the professor said in class that he would give a high mark for creativity, I decided that I would make my essay stand out from others," she said.

"I gave a thought for a while, and hit upon the idea of aburidashi."

Ms Haga, 19, soaked soybeans overnight, then crushed them before squeezing them in a cloth.

She then mixed the soybean extract with water - spending two hours to get the concentration right - before writing her essay with a fine brush on "washi" (thin Japanese paper).

Once her words had dried, they became invisible. But, to ensure her professor didn't put the essay in the bin, she left a note in normal ink saying "heat the paper".

The professor, Yuji Yamada, told the BBC he was "surprised" when he saw the essay.

"I had seen such reports written in code, but never seen one done in aburidashi," he said.

"To tell the truth, I had a little doubt that the words would come out clearly. But when I actually heated the paper over the gas stove in my house, the words appeared very clearly and I thought 'Well done!'

"I didn't hesitate to give the report full marks - even though I didn't read it to the very end because I thought I should leave some part of the paper unheated, in case the media would somehow find this and take a picture."

As for the essay itself, Ms Haga said it had more style than substance.

"I was confident that the professor would at least recognise my efforts to make a creative essay," she said.

"So I wasn't really worried about getting a bad score for my essay - though the content itself was nothing special."

Japan ninja student gets top marks for writing essay in invisible ink

Michael Vince First Certificate language Practice - Phrasal verbs 1-2

Would you like to be a Phrasal Verb Ninja?

87 phrasal verbs

(Intermediate) What if you could trade a paperclip for a house?

Kyle MacDonald details just exactly how he traded up from one red paperclip to a house, in only a year! It's an unlikely and amazing journey with lots of surprises along the way.

Watch:

What if you could trade a paperclip for a house?




Part 1.

0:38 to 1:54

1. How long ago did Kyle decide to trade his paperclip?

2. What happens in the board game Bigger and Better?

"We're moving liabilities into assets."

3. What does Kyle mean?

"We're improving each other's lives, albeit on a small scale."

4. What does albeit mean?

 Pause and discuss
Have you got anything on you right now that you could call a liability?



Part 2.

1:54 - 4:04

1. Synonym for "dream realised" is dream c____ t_____

2. What's a "blackout"?

3. What's an I O U?

4. When do we say "what do you say?" ?

5. rebranded, mishmash.

How did Kyle rebrand the IOU, keg and sign?

6. Grammar: When Kyle says "not only bla bla" the next thing he says will start with the word "b__ bla bla"

7."Seeing how it was the middle of winter...." - what does "seeing how" mean?

8. Why was the snow mobile an asset rather than a liability at this time?

9. "Who doesn't want to go to the Rockies this time of year?" What kind of question is this?

10. What was the catch for the trip to the Rockies?

11. What's a loophole?



Part 3.

1. What's blackmail?
2. What's an inside joke?

3. Turns out - what does it mean?

4. What did Alice Cooper ask Kyle to promise?

5. An afternoon with Alice Cooper was a "priceless opportunity" - what does that mean?

6. Why did Kyle make such an apparently bad trade?








Can you guess the order that Kyle traded his paperclip up to a house?








two-person trip to Yahk
cube van
recording contract
a year's rent in Phoenix
one afternoon with Alice Cooper
KISS snow globe
movie role
camp stove
doorknob
generator
instant party
fish-shaped pen
skimobile




Traded doorknob for a


traded snowmobile for a


traded cube van for a


traded recording contract for a


traded pen for a


traded fish-shaped pen for a


traded paper clip for a


traded doorknob for a


traded camp stove for a


traded instant party for a


traded two-person trip to Yahk for a


traded movie role for a


traded KISS snow globe for a


traded afternoon with Alice Cooper for a


traded a year's rent in Phoenix for a




The order:

Paperclip     fish-shaped pen      doorknob     camp stove     generator
instant party        snow mobile         two-person trip to Yahk       cube van
recording contract     a year's rent in Phoenix      one afternoon with Alice Cooper
KISS snow globe      movie role       two-story house

What do the italic, bold and enlarged words have in common, respectively?

(Intermediate) Proverbs in the Imperative

1. Don't cry over spilt milk.

2. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

3. Do as you would be done by.

4. Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

5. Don't cross your bridges before you come to them.

6. Never say die.

7. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

8. If at first you don't succeed, try try again.

9. Look before you leap.

10. Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Imperative Verbs


Imperative verbs are also known as ‘bossy verbs’- they tell people what to do! e.g. close the door; empty the bin; eat your dinner!

Look at the sentences below; and think of some imperative verbs that you could put at the beginning in order to make an instruction.


1. ______________right at the traffic lights.
2. ______________the juice into the glass.
3. ______________the kettle in before you use it.
4. ______________on the television please.
5. ______________the window; it’s very cold.

(Upper-Intermediate) How to make chai that gets you high

Abdullah Saeed knows how important it is to chill. That's why VICE's resident weed expert figured out how to infuse chai—arguably the chillest of all beverages—with cannabis, using a handful of spices and a jug of milk.

Take notes:


Ingredients:

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Directions:

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And there you have it.

Watch:

How to make chai that gets you high