7.7 Writing an article reviewing an event

SB p. 96-97: read the Writing Focus:

Read an example:

Underline all the adjectives in the article.

LANGUAGE FOCUS
Modifiers with base and extreme adjectives
• You use different adverbs to modify base or extreme adjectives. Base adjectives are gradable e.g. very bad is worse than quite bad. Extreme adjectives are nongradable e.g. impossible means impossible – you can’t be ‘more’ impossible or ‘less’ impossible.
Fill the gaps with the underlined adjectives from the example:

Complete the dialogues with extreme adjectives. The first letters are given.

1 M: Well, that was a really t errible (very bad) meal! And extremely expensive. I'm d            (very disappointed) after spending so much money on that!
R: Actually my food was d           (very tasty) and I think the chef is absolutely b           (very talented). Besides, I think it's h           (very funny) that you say that now after eating everything. And rather quickly I might add.
M: That's not fair. I was so s          (very hungry) that it was i            (not possible) not to eat whatever they put in front of me.

2 J: That was an absolutely a         (very good) concert, Oli. Thanks again for inviting me. The band were f           (very good)!
O : Oh, man. I'm e          (very happy)! I've wanted to see them play live for years. I knew they were good but that was e           (very good)! And the way they played the songs differently to how they sound on the albums was also f             (very interesting)!
J: I agree. They're very talented.

Choose the correct modifier.
Telly-Addicts: last night on the box

Last night’s television highlight was definitely the            [absolutely, rather] fascinating BBC2 documentary Icemen about the lives of fishermen in Iceland. Some of the fishermen’s stories were            [rather, absolutely] sad, but            [very, absolutely] interesting, and the shots of the Icelandic coastline were            [very, absolutely] gorgeous.
Also worth watching was Channel 4’s new quiz What’s Up? which was presented by the            [extremely, absolutely] talented Rosie Perks and her            [absolutely, very] funny partner Richard Bond. Though many of the questions on the show are            [quite, absolutely] impossible to answer, we still found it a            [really, absolutely] entertaining from start to finish.