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Common Adjectives: Good and Bad Things

The document discusses good and bad adjectives used to describe things. It provides examples of positive adjectives like "nice", "lovely", "great", and "wonderful" that can be used to talk about good restaurants, views, films, weather, and ideas. Negative adjectives provided include "bad", "terrible", "horrible", and "dreadful" for describing poor weather, food, smells, and work days. The document also discusses expressions used to respond positively like "excellent", "great", "wonderful", and "lovely" and gives examples of how to use descriptive adjectives in sentences.

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Common Adjectives: Good and Bad Things

The document discusses good and bad adjectives used to describe things. It provides examples of positive adjectives like "nice", "lovely", "great", and "wonderful" that can be used to talk about good restaurants, views, films, weather, and ideas. Negative adjectives provided include "bad", "terrible", "horrible", and "dreadful" for describing poor weather, food, smells, and work days. The document also discusses expressions used to respond positively like "excellent", "great", "wonderful", and "lovely" and gives examples of how to use descriptive adjectives in sentences.

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56 Common adjectives: Good and bad things

A Good adjectives

a good restaurant an excellent restaurant a wonderful view


/ˈwʌndəfəl/
good very good
nice lovely great wonderful excellent

A: That’s a nice jacket. A: It’s a lovely day today! /ˈlʌvli/


B: Thank you. B: Yes, it is.
It’s a great film. We all loved it. A: Do you want to go to London on Saturday?
B: That’s an excellent idea! [very good]

B Bad adjectives
The weather this summer was very bad.
Other words that mean very bad are dreadful, horrible, terrible:
The food in that café was horrible. Nobody liked it.
What’s that dreadful smell?
I had a terrible day at work today.
The traffic’s terrible at 5 o’clock on Fridays.
bad weather
C Expressions
A: The train arrives at 7 o’clock; dinner is at 8 o’clock.
B: Excellent! / Great! / Wonderful! / Lovely! / Perfect!
Note: We often say not bad when we are speaking.
A: I get $500 a week in my job.
B: That’s not bad! (= good!)

We use these adjectives with how: My hair is awful!


A: I have to get up at 5.30 tomorrow.
B: Oh, how awful! / how horrible! Common mistakes
A: I’ve got a great new job in New York!
How awful! / How horrible!
B: How nice! / How wonderful! / How lovely! [NOT How bad!]

118 English Vocabulary in Use Elementary


Exercises
56.1 Complete the sentences.
1 My hair’s awful . I must go to the hairdresser’s.
2 The weather’s . I don’t want to go out.
3 The traffic is in the city centre. Take the train.
4 That’s a(n) idea! Let’s do it!
5 How ! Three exams on the same day!
6 What a house! The sea is only 100 metres away!
7 My timetable’s not . I’m free on Wednesdays and Fridays.
8 We have a view of the mountains from our hotel room.
56.2 What can you say? Someone says to you …
1 Do you like my new skirt? Yes, it’s lovely!
2 I have to get up at 4.30 tomorrow morning.
3 Do you want to go out for dinner tonight?
4 (in your town) Excuse me. Is there a good restaurant in this town?
5 What do you think of your English lessons?
6 Is it OK if I come to your house at 6.30 tomorrow evening?
56.3 Match the words on the left with an expression from the right.
1 Blue sky, sun 25° a Wonderful news
2 Five stars (*****) b Awful weather
3 I don’t want to walk. Let’s take a taxi. c Lovely weather
4 90 out of 100 in an exam d A very good idea
5 (in summer) Grey sky, wind, rain, 4° e An excellent hotel

56.4 Put these words into the good or bad column. Use a dictionary.

dreadful brilliant marvellous nasty fine

good bad
dreadful

56.5 Now think of two nouns to go with each of the adjectives in 56.4.
Use a dictionary to help you.
dreadful weather / film
brilliant
marvellous
nasty
fine

English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 119

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