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Conversation practice
Answer the following questions. Try to find adjectives or adverbs in each of them.
- Do you know a dog which barks loudly?
- Do you know any beautiful tourist spots?
- Can you cook well?
- Would you say that you’re a hard worker?
- Does it bother you when people are frequently late?
Theory part 1
Exercise 1
Choose the correct word and answer the questions.
- Do you usually eat slow/slowly or quick/quickly?
- Are you more comfortable in loud/loudly or quiet/quietly environments?
- Are you a patient/patiently or impatient/impatiently person by nature?
- Do you pay attention to details in your work close/closely?
- Are you calm/calmly in stressful situations?
Extra questions:
- Are you natural/naturally drawn to environments that are quiet/quietly and peaceful/peacefully, or do you thrive in lively and loud/loudly surroundings?
- Do you usually make decisions quick/quickly and confident/confidently, or do you tend to careful/carefully weigh all options before reaching a conclusion?
Exercise 2
Choose the correct word in each sentence.
- He quick/quickly finished her homework and went outside to play.
- She lifted the heavy/heavily box and carried it.
- The loud/loudly thunder shook the entire house.
- Jim spoke kind/kindly to his friend who was feeling blue.
- The doctor patient/patiently listened to the patient's concerns.
- The close/closely friends shared their secrets with each other.
- He easy/easily solved the puzzle in a matter of seconds.
- The quiet/quietly library was a perfect place to study.
Answer key
- quickly
- heavy
- loud
- kindly
- patiently
- close
- easily
- quiet
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Exercise 3
Choose the correct word and watch the clips.
1. “Do you want to stand awkward/awkwardly in the corner with me?”
2. "Come on, you're a wonderful/wonderfully dancer." "Mum, I suck.”
3. "It’s a nice/nicely gesture. It is, but it feels like charity”
4."Look how clean/cleanly that splits the coconut open there.”
5. “It is a strange/strangely fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt. Such a little thing.”
6. “He'll be over the moon. He may even lean back in his chair a little and nod slight/slightly.”
7. "Oh I know but alcohol affects me strong/strongly.”
8. “What can men do against such reckless/recklessly hate.”
9. "Because of the nature of your mother's illness, unfortunately, things may progress very quick/quickly.”
10. "I think we shouldn't've brought Buffy back. I knew it was gonna end bad/badly.”
11. "Hey, so how was Joan?" "(I) broke up with her." "Why?" "Don't tell me. Because of the big-nostril thing?" "They were huge." "How many perfect/perfectly fine women are you gonna reject over the most superficial, insignificant things?"
12. “You're simple/simply the best. Better than all the rest.
Theory part 2
Exercise 4
Choose the correct word and answer the questions.
- Does the idea of going on a roller coaster seem exciting/excitingly or scary/scarily to you?
- Do you prefer to wake up early/earlily or late/lately at the weekends?
- Do you agree that coffee smells wonderful/wonderfully?
- Tell me about the last incredible/incredibly tasty dessert you ate.
- Can you share some fashion tips on how to look good/goodly for a special occasion?
- Have you ever been in a car that was driven dangerous/dangerously fast/fastly?
- Have you ever completed a challenging task surprising/surprisingly quick/quickly?
- Have you ever travelled unbelivable/unbelievably far/farly from home?
- When dealing with problems are you often impatient/impatiently?
Answer key
- exciting, scary (’seem’ is a linking verb)
- early, late (’early’ and ‘late’ are irregular adverbs)
- wonderful (’smell’ is a linking verb)
- incredibly (the adverb ‘incredibly’ describes the adjective ‘tasty’)
- good (’look’ is a linking verb)
- dangerously fast (the adverb ‘dangerously’ describes another adverb ‘fast’; the adverb ‘fast’ is irregular)
- surprisingly quickly (the adverb ‘surprisingly’ describes another adverb ‘quickly’, the adverb ‘quickly’ describes the verb ‘complete’)
- unbelievably far (the adverb ‘unbelievably’ describes another adverb ‘far’, the adverb ‘far’ is irregular)
- impatient (the verb ‘be’ is a linking verb)
Exercise 5
Choose the correct word in each sentence.
- The sunset looks beautiful/beautifully tonight.
- The child was extreme/extremely excited about the surprise.
- The magician performed incredible/incredibly good/well.
- The cake tastes exceptional/exceptionally delicious.
- He plays the piano good/well.
- She works hard/hardly to achieve her goals.
- The coffee smells wonderful/wonderfully in the morning.
- He drives dangerous/dangerously fast/fastly.
- They worked so hard/hardly that they stayed late/lately to finish the project.
- The cake tastes incredibly/incrediblily delicious/deliciously.
Answer key
- beautiful (look is a linking verb)
- extremely (the adverb ‘extremely’ describes the adjective ‘excited’)
- incredibly well (the adverb ‘incredibly’ describes another adverb ‘well’)
- exceptionally (the adverb ‘exceptionally’ describes the adjective ‘delicious’)
- well (the adverb ‘well’ describes the verb ‘play’)
- hard (the adverb ‘hard’ is an irregular adverb)
- wonderful (the verb ‘smell’ is a linking verb)
- dangerously fast (the adverb ‘dangerous’ describes another adverb ‘fast’; the adverb ‘fast’ is an irregular adverb)
- hard, late (both adverbs are irregular)
- incredibly delicious (the adverb ‘incredibly’ describes the adjective ‘delicious’; the verb ‘taste’ is a linking verb)
Exercise 6
Choose the correct word and watch the clips.
1. “In the gathering dark, the will of the Ring grows strong. It works hard/hardly now to find its way back into the hands of Men. Men, who are so easy/easily seduced by its power.”
2. “You look so great/reatly!” “You too, beautiful.”
3. “If you are wise/wisely, you will leave this place”
4. "Look, I'm not in the mood, okay? I didn't sleep good/well last night.”
5. "Study hard/hardly and you will be rewarded. Fail to do so, and the consequences may be severe/severely. Your previous instruction in this subject has been disturbing/disturbingly uneven. But you'll be pleased to know, from now on, you will be following a careful/carefully structured, Ministry-approved course of defensive/defensively magic.”
6. "Don't you think the ending was pretty wonderful/wonderfully?"
7. "Larry, what's done is done. Even the glory of Rome had to come to an end." "Would you please not look dramatic/dramatically off into the distance when you say that? It makes me feel worse”
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