Is your country warm, cold or freezing in winter time?
Is your hometown tiny, small, big or huge?
What is your home like during the summer, is it cool, warm, hot or boiling?
Some base adjectives (like cold) have a stronger version (e.g. freezing). Here is another example:
| It’s hot today. (30C) |
| It’s boiling today (35C) (= It’s very hot) |
| It’s absolutely boiling today (40C) (=It’s very very hot) |
| Also, we don’t use the word ‘very’ with strong adjectives. |
Decide which of the following sentences are correct and incorrect:
| 1 | It is very boiling. | |
| 2 | It is boiling. | |
| 3 | It is very hot. | |
| 4 | It is absolutely hot. | |
| 5 | It is absolutely boiling. |
Rank the following words from the coldest to the warmest:
| freezing boiling warm hot cool |
| absolutely freezing very cold absolutely boiling very hot |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||
Match the following adjectives to their extreme version:
| boiling, exhausted, hideous, elated, miserable, starving, furious, tiny, freezing, astonished, parched, as red as a beetroot, beautiful, huge, miniscule, stunning, fascinated, famished, gigantic, petrified, hilarious, enormous, gorgeous | Base Adjective | Extreme Adjective(s) |
| Hot | Boiling |
| Cold | |
| Big (3) | |
| Small (2) | |
| Angry | |
| Happy | |
| Funny | |
| Surprised | |
| Interested | |
| Afraid | |
| Sad | |
| Tired | |
| Pretty (3) | |
| Ugly | |
| Embarrassed | |
| Hungry (2) | |
| Thirsty | |
Write a dialogue using at least 10 of the extreme adjectives above.