Answer — Exercise 4
3.2 - Home from home·Speakout Advanced - Students' Book
Vraag
- Read descriptions 1-5. Are they from a lecture, an ad, or a piece of fiction? How do you know?
- Underline the adjectives in Exercise 4A. Are they positive, negative or neutral? Think of more example to describe a place or room.
Antwoord
a)
- a lecture → This is factual information, expressed in formal language, and it isn't selling anything.
- a piece of fiction → The extract uses the past tense to describe part of a story and contains thoughts and actions as well as descriptions.
- an ad → It contains notes rather than full sentences and adjectives that focus on positive aspects.
- a lecture → This is factual information, expressed in formal language, and it isn't selling anything.
- a piece of fiction → This uses many adjectives to create an atmosphere and is told in the past tense, which suggests it is a story.
b)
- shady → neutral - depends on whether you are in a hot or cold country
- gloomy → negative; dejected → negative; dreary → negative; grey → neutral - depends on whether it's describing the colour or the mood
- roomy → positive; spacious → positive; good → positive; airy → positive; large → positive
- native → neutral; chilly → negative
- poky → negative; tiny → negative; cramped → negative; gaudy → negative; red, purple, yellow → neutral