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Exercises

22.1 Fill the gaps, as in the example.
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EH My hair’s ... awful... I must go to the hairdresser’s.
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PWN The trafficis .............. in the city centre. Take the train.
The weathers ................. . I don’t want to go out.
That's a(n) oo. idea! Let's do it!
NNO HOW senen ! Three exams on the same day!
What ao...
house! The sea is only 100 metres away!
My timetable’s not ..................... . ’'m free on Wednesdays and Fridays.

22.2 What can you say? Someone says to you ...
1 Do you like my new jacket?
2 I have to get up at 4.30 tomorrow morning.
3 Shall we go out for dinner tonight?
4 (In your town) Excuse me. Is there a good restaurant in this town?
5 What sort of person is your English teacher?

22.3 What goes together? Match a description from the left with an expression from the right.
Draw lines.
Blue sky, sun 25”. op Wonderful news.
Up S5 stars (dd), very famous. Ln Awful weather.
Bad person. Nobody likes him/her.
Lovely weather.
UR 90 out of 100 in an exam. An excellent idea.
The best hotel in town.
Grey sky, wind, rain, 11°.
N We can take a taxi. mo A horrible person.
22.4 Use a dictionary. Put these new words into the good or bad column.

dreadful ghastly gorgeous marvellous horrendous fine superb _ brilliant

good (+) bad ()

dreadful

22.5 Look at the adjectives in 22.4. Think of two nouns to go with each of the adjectives.
dreadful weather/film

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