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Downloadable worksheets: Extreme Sports Discussions + Intensifier exercises - Very/Quite/Really/Ex tremely etc. Level: intermediate Age: 12-17 Downloads: 466   Extreme Records - 13-Year-Old Climbs Everest + Intensifiers, Gradable/Non-Gradabl e Adjectives Level: intermediate Age: 13-17 Downloads: 291   Base and Strong adjectives - 2 pages + key Level: intermediate Age: 12-17 Downloads: 238   Extreme Adjective Pelmanism (Matching Game) Level: elementary Age: 7-100 Downloads: 12   Gradable and extreme adjectives Level: intermediate Age: 9-100 Downloads: 3   gradable and ungradable adjectives and adverbs Level: intermediate Age: 13-100 Downloads: 34

Gradable and Extreme Adjectives   A. Match the adjectives. Write the letters a-k.                          Adjectives:   Gradable           Extreme         1.  big                     a. freezing       2.  small                  b. starving       3.  hot                     c. delicious       4.  cold                   d. exhausted       5.  hungry               e. boiling       6.  pretty                 f. gorgeous       7.  tasty                  g. huge       8.  tired                   h. tiny       9.  bad                    i. awful     10.  nice                   j. hideous        11.  ugly                   k. awesome       B. Choose the correct adjective to describe the pictures.      Remember: very/quite + gradable adj.                            really/absolutely + extreme adj..           1)                                        These shoes are very uglyhideous.                           But these are really uglyhideous.          2)   The actress is quite gorgeouspretty, but at the party she was absolutely gorgeouspretty.          3)                   She's very hungrystarving.      She's really hungrystarving.          4)                       This hamburger is very bighuge.      But this one is absolutely bighuge.          5)                                         This burger is quite tinysmall.       And this one is really tinysmall.          6)                                This food doesn't look very tastydelicious.      But this cake looks absolutely tastydelicious.          7)                                      This restaurant is very niceawesome.             The Under Sea Crazy Restaurant is really niceawesome.          8)                                    Sweets are quite awfulbad for you.        But fried food is really awfulbad.          9)                        Today it's absolutely hotboiling.      Today it's quite hotboiling.         10)                      The weather is very freezingcold.      The weather is really freezingcold.         11)                         She's very tiredexhausted.     She's absolutely tiredexhausted.     C. Write the adjectives under the correct pictures:      overweight, fit, voluptuous, anorexic, unattractive, obese, handsome, beautiful.        1)    2)   3)   4)                                                                         5)     6)     7)       8)                                                                                      D. Choose the correct phrasal verb to complete each sentence.        1. I think Susan should cut back onthrow upgive up smoking once and for all.      2. Catherine put on 5 kilos between Christmas and New Year, so she threw upcut back onate up chocolate.      3. It's our wedding aniversary today and we're going to eat outthrow upeat up tonight.      4. Give upEat upThrow up your vegetables and I will let you have some cake for dessert.      5. I won't eat any shellfish, because I'm afraid I might throw upcut backeat up.