Gradable and Extreme Adjectives- Speaking Card Game
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Students use cards with gradable and ungradable adjective pairs to make conversation questions, match the pairs, add collocations, and test each other on the language - including adverbs with gradable adjectives and extreme adjectives.
Lesson Plan Content:
Gradable and extreme adjectives speaking card game
Spread the cards across the table face up. Use as many cards as you can to make sentences about things you have in common (opinions in common, experiences in common, etc), with sentences like “We both think/ find/ have/ have found/ feel/ believe/…”
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Suggested discussion questions How would you feel if…? How… is/ are… (in this country/ town)? How… would you be if…? How… would you have to be to…? How… would… have to be for you to…? What would you do if…? Would you agree/ say that… is/ are…?/ Would you describe … as…? Would you… (just) because…?/ Would you… if you were…? |
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Useful phrases for agreeing I totally agree./ That’s quite right./ I have exactly the same opinion. I think that is fair/ a good description. |
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Useful phrases for disagreeing I wouldn’t go as far as that. I’d say…/ I wouldn’t go as far as to say… More like… I would go even further and say… |
Ask about any cards which you couldn’t use, then work together to match the cards with gradable adjectives and extreme adjectives with similar meanings (extreme adjective = very + gradable adjective). There is more than one match for each.
Make sure that you have two gradable adjectives and two extreme adjectives in each group, then match them to opposites to help and to start checking your answers.
Put the adverb cards into columns by which kinds of words they go with.
Check with un-cut-up copies of the worksheets. Synonyms are paired next to each other, with gradable and extreme adjectives with similar meanings on the same line. Opposites are above and below each other.
Test each other on the adjectives:
- Say two words with the same or related meanings, and see if your partner can say how they are related
- Say the gradable and extreme adjectives mixed up and see if your partner can say which is which
- Say three of the four things on one line and see if your partner can say the fourth thing
- Say seven of the eight words with similar and opposite meanings and see if your partner can say the eighth word
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with extreme adjectives |
absolutely |
completely |
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totally |
utterly |
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perfectly |
entirely |
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with gradable adjectives |
slightly |
a little |
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a bit |
not very |
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fairly |
very |
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extremely |
incredibly |
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with both |
pretty |
really |
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amusing/ humorous |
funny |
hilarious |
side-splitting |
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serious
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sad/ solemn |
tragic |
dead serious |
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attractive/ pretty |
good looking |
gorgeous |
stunning |
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ugly |
unattractive |
hideous |
gruesome-looking |
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big |
large |
huge/ gigantic |
massive/ enormous |
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little |
small |
tiny |
minuscule/ minute |
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cool |
cold
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freezing |
frozen |
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warm |
hot |
baking/ boiling |
roasting |
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sad |
unhappy
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miserable |
heartbroken |
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glad/ pleased
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happy |
delighted |
overjoyed |
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sleepy |
tired |
exhausted |
shattered/ knackered |
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lively
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energetic |
hyper |
hyperactive |
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necessary
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important |
crucial/ vital |
essential |
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unimportant
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trivial |
pointless |
worthless |
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rich
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wealthy |
filthy rich |
loaded |
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poor
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low income |
penniless |
broke |
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good |
decent |
great/ brilliant |
fantastic/ splendid |
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bad |
deficient/ inferior |
awful/ terrible |
dreadful/ disastrous |
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boring |
uninteresting |
mind-numbing |
soul destroying |
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interesting
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stimulating |
captivating |
fascinating |
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damp
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wet |
soaked |
sopping |
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dry
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dehydrated |
parched |
bone dry |
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hungry |
peckish |
starving |
dying of hunger |
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full |
satiated |
stuffed |
full up/ fit to burst |
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tasty |
palatable |
delicious/ lip-smacking |
mouth-watering |
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yucky
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unappetising |
revolting |
sickening |
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frightened
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scared |
terrified |
petrified |
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brave
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courageous |
fearless |
heroic |
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drunk/ intoxicated |
tipsy/ merry |
wasted/ wrecked |
blotto/ smashed |
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sober |
straight/ temperate |
stone cold sober |
clear-headed/ dry |
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