Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Writing bank 2 for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. To make our writing clearer and more interesting, we choose vocabulary according to the precise meaning the words / phrases convey. Read the blog again and complete the How to ... box with six other adjectives which are related to the word nice and six other adjectives which are connected with the word difficult.
  2. Rewrite the blog entry below using more precise vocabulary instead of repeating the words difficult and nice. Change the word order of sentences if necessary.

Answer

a)

Difficult

  1. challenging
  2. exhausting
  3. demanding
  4. hard
  5. tough
  6. tricky

Nice

  1. friendly
  2. fun
  3. rewarding
  4. amazing
  5. fascinating
  6. fantastic

b)

  • travelling on my own was daunting / hard
  • travelling on buses was exciting but daunting / challenging/hard
  • finding my way to the village was tricky / hard / tough
  • an amazing / fantastic / fascinating
  • everyone l've met has been so friendly
  • quite an exhausting / demanding / tough
  • seems like an amazing / fascinating / fantastic