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PHOTOGRAPHY
9.2
VOCABULARY
ADVERB-ADJECTIVE COLLOCATIONS
5
Find the following adjectives in the article. Note the
adverbs that go with them.
different moving unexpected wrong
6
Complete each sentence below using an adverb-
adjective collocation from the boxes.
heavily highly painfully totally
criticised praised qualified shy
unbelievable unjustified
1
Cartier-Bresson was
for his excellent
coverage of Gandhi’s funeral in India in 1948.
2
Mario Testino was
in many fields before he
moved to London to train as a photographer.
3
The plot of the film was
and the war scenes
were fake.
4
One Hour Photo
is a film starring Robin Williams
about a quiet and
photo technician.
5
A top university was
for spending £1.4m on
art works when its main building needed repair.
6
The banning of photographers from the area was
as there was no obvious danger to people.
GRAMMAR
GRADABLE AND UNGRADABLE ADJECTIVES
7
a
Look at these adjectives from the article. Put them
into pairs with similar meanings.
essential excellent good important
unique unusual
7
b
Now put the following adjectives into pairs with
similar meanings.
angry bad big cold devastated
enormous exhausted fascinating freezing
furious hungry
interesting small
starving terrible tiny tired upset
Adjectives can be gradable or ungradable. For example,
cold
is gradable (there are degrees of ‘coldness’), but
freezing
is
ungradable – it is at the end of the scale of ‘coldness’.
Some ungradable adjectives express extreme qualities
(e.g.
terrified
,
furious
,
starving
) and others express absolute
qualities (e.g.
alive
,
correct
,
dead
,
male
,
human
).
8
Which of the adjectives in Exercise 7 are gradable
and which are ungradable?
Gradable
Ungradable
angry
furious
9
a
Find the adjectives from Exercise 7a in the article
and note the words before them. Then choose the
correct option in the statements below.
1
Gradable
/
Ungradable
adjectives can be made
stronger or weaker with words like
very, a bit,
extremely,
,
and
.
2
We often use
absolutely,
and
with
gradable
/
ungradable
adjectives.
9
b
Now complete the statements above with the
words in the box.
a little completely pretty slightly totally
GRAMMAR TIP
We can use
really
with both gradable and ungradable
adjectives:
The film was really interesting.
The exhibition was really fascinating.
Really
,
awfully
and
terribly
are more common in
informal spoken English.
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Language reference and extra practice, pages 126–149
10
Correct the adverbs if they are wrong.
1
I thought it was a very excellent photograph.
2
We were a bit tired after our visit to the Louvre.
3
I was very devastated when they said the exhibition
was closed.
4
The photographs were extremely terrible.
5
When we had finished going round the photo
exhibition, we were absolutely exhausted.
11
Identify the adverb-adjective combinations in the
text below. Are there any combinations that don’t go
together? Why?
SPEAKING
12
Work in small groups. Find a favourite photo on
your phone or think of one you have taken that you
like. Describe the photo and say why it is one of your
favourites.
The National Museum of Bahrain has a very
excellent collection of archaeological exhibits,
examples of culture and traditions and permanent
and temporary exhibitions of Bahrain artworks.
It opened in 1988 and the Natural History Hall
opened in 1993. This has a wonderful collection of
flora and fauna found in the country. The building
is very enormous and is situated next to the sea. We
were absolutely hungry at the end of our visit, and
luckily the museum café has great food. Admission
is very cheap at only 1BD. There is an excellent
shop which sells some extremely fascinating
souvenirs. For such a small country, this collection is
absolutely interesting and most visitors have a really
wonderful day.
