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game for teaching extreme adjectives <br>extreme adjective are not gradable and not all intensifiers can modify such adjectives
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COLD CLEVER HAPPY ANGRY OLD UGLY TASTY SMALL GOOD DIRTY LONG SAD BAD CLEAN EXCITING IMPORTANT UNUSUAL FUNNY SCARY
For the teachers COLD ANGRY TASTY BIG SMALL OLD HAPPY CLEVER UGLY GOOD DIRTY SAD LONG BAD CLEAN WEAK EXCITING HUNGRY SCARY FUNNY UNUSUAL IPORTANT TIRED INTERESTING PRETTY HOT NICE BIG FREEZING FURIOUS DELICIOUS HUGE TINY ANCIENT JUBILANT BRILLIANT HIDIOUS FANTASTIC FILTHY MISERABLE ENDLESS AWFUL SPOTLESS FRAGIL THRILLING STARVING TERRIFYING HILARIOUS EXTRAORDINARY ESSENTIAL EXHAUSTED FASCINATING GORGEOUS BOILING LOVELY HUGE Instructions for the teacher. Preparation Print the board games on tick paper or a cardboard; laminate them if you want to use them many times. Find tokens for each student. Provide dices. Divide the class into groups of 3 – 4 students each. Give each group a board game and a dice. Give each student a token (or bean, coin, button, etc.). The game The players put their tokens on the square Start. The first student throws the dice and moves his token ahead the corresponding number of squares. The student says an extreme adjective. More advanced students can build a sentence Example: big – huge : This builging is huge. It has 40 floors. If the answer is correct, the student stays, if the answer is incorrect, he has to go back where he came from. The first student who takes a number that places his token on “home” or surpasses it is the winner.