Intensifiers

Intensifiers:

We use words like very, really and extremely to make adjectives stronger:

It’s a very interesting story
Everyone was very excited.
It’s a really interesting story.
Everyone was extremely excited

We call these words intensifiers. Other intensifiers are:

amazingly	exceptionally	incredibly
remarkably	particularly	unusually

We also use enough to say more about an adjective, but enough comes after its adjective:

If you are seventeen you are old enough to drive a car.
I can’t wear those shoes. They’re not big enough.

Intensifiers with strong adjectives:

Strong adjectives are words like:

enormous, huge = very big
tiny = very small
brilliant = very clever
awful; terrible; disgusting; dreadful = very bad
certain = very sure
excellent; perfect; ideal; wonderful; splendid = very good
delicious = very tasty

We do not normally use very with these adjectives. We do not say something is "very enormous" or someone is "very brilliant".

With strong adjectives, we normally use intensifiers like:

absolutely	completely	totally	utterly
really	exceptionally	particularly	quite

The film was absolutely awful.
He was an exceptionally brilliant child.
The food smelled really disgusting.

 

PRACTICE

 

Unit 4

GRAMMAR: Defining and Non-defining Relative clauses.

• Relative Clauses EXPLANATION.
• Activity: Unit 4 grammar(1)
• Activity: Unit 4 grammar(2)
• Activity: Unit 4 grammar(3)

VOCABULARY extra activities:

• Vocabulary unit4(1)
• Vocabulary unit4(2)

ANSWER KEY

• VERB TENSES ANSWER KEY
• UNIT 4 ANSWER KEY
• TENSES CHART

OPINION AND FOR AND AGAINST ESSAY

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Unit 4

SUMMARY:

Vocabulary 

•  Topic: Words from the text (guilty, activist, charged with, etc.) 
• Topic: The Environment (waste, global warming, landfill, etc.)
• Topic: Environmental awareness (supplies, damaged, disposed of, etc.)

 Grammar

Conditional clauses  

• Form
• Zero conditional
• First conditional
• Second conditional
• Third conditional

 Wish clauses

•  Form and use

Revision exercises (download)

More exercises with key for self-study (download)

• Set 1
• Set 2
• Set 3

CONDITIONAL CLAUSES

• Conditional Clauses EXPLANATION
• Conditional Clauses EXPLANATION2
• Spanish EXPLANATION
• CONDITIONAL CLAUSES EXPLANATION (Power Point)
• All types Conditionals
• Mixed Conditionals 2
• Sentence Transformation Conditionals

IF ONLY / I WISH

• If only-I wish 1
• I-WISH-IF-ONLY
• III Conditional-I wish-If only

OVER TO YOU 2 ACTIVITIES

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• grammar_unit_5_2star
• grammar_unit_5_3star

VOCABULARY REVISION

• vocabulary_unit_5_1star
• vocabulary_unit_5_2star
• vocabulary_unit_5_3star

Unit 3

MODAL VERBS

• Click here to learn MODAL VERBS meanings
• MODAL VERBS activities

PERFECT MODALS

• Explanation.
• Activities: Perfect Modals1, Perfect Modals2, Perfect Modals3.
• Over to you worksheets: Unit 3 grammar(1), Unit 3 grammar(2), Unit 3 grammar(3).

VOCABULARY

• Vocabulary unit3(1)
• Vocabulary unit3(2)

ON-LINE RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES

• Modal verbs1
• Modal verbs2
• Modal verbs3

Model Fax - Transportation

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are interested in using National Containers Ltd. to trasnport and deliver, door-to-door, a number of consignments in Europe over the next few months.

Our consignments consist of fragile crokery. An average crate measures 187x172x165 cm, and
weighs approximately 35 kg.

Could you please send a quotation and details of schedules. I would also be grateul for information about the necessary documentation.

Yours faithfully,

J. Merton
Sales Manager

Model letter - Bank

The Counties Bank

60 City Road

Salford M5 4WT

2 February2016

Richard Grey

Grey Transport Ltd

350 Dock Street

Salford M6 3WT

Dear Mr Grey,

Further to our meeting on 28 January, I am sorry to inform you that we will not be able to offer you a bridging loan at the present time.

Our decision to turn down your request was influenced by the current economic recession, which has affected our policy on loans to all sectors of industry and commerce. Fuerthermore, our directors now insist that all loans shoud be covered by negotiable securities, such as shares or bonds.

You may, however, be able to raise the capital you need from other sources, such as finance houses. Nevertheless, I should warn you that such sources will probably charge a higher rate of interest than that levied by us.

Once again, I am sorry not to have better news for you, but hope that we may be of more help in the future.

Your sincerely,

John Steele

Manager

Blog Vocabulary 

• Address bar- the bar at the top of the webpage where you type the URL.
• Adsense- ads from Google that run on the internet, even on your blog if you sign up.
• Archive- a list of your past posts.
• Beta- a description meaning a program or software is not yet completely finished, but is in test mode.
• Blogger- the person who blogs/author.
• Blogger- Google's blog systems/platform. It's fairly simple and often recommended for new bloggers due to ease of use.
• Blogging- the actual act of writing posts, or, over the long term, the ongoing activity of keeping up a blog is called blogging.
• Blogosphere- slang for the world/culture of blogs on the net
• Calendar- displays a record of when you've posted
• Category/Label- placing each post in a category or labeling it with a topic will help readers to find posts that interest them.
• Coding- using HTML codes to alter the appearance of the net, such as making it bold, or to insert links, photos or so on. However, many platforms have this built in with the simple click of a button.

• Comment Form- space where your readers are able to interact with you by leaving comments
• Comments- feedback and conversation from your readers.
• Content- the text entries, photos and videos in your blog
• Cookies- when your computer saves info about where/what you've visited on the net.
• Dashboard- administrative area where you manipulate your blog

• Domain name- what someone types into the address bar to find a site, the URL
• Email subscription- when someone signs up to receive an email whenever you post
• Flame war- insults, attacks or personal arguments in the comments.
• Font- how the type appears
• Google news alert- service that sends notice when news stories relating to your topic comes up
• Header- top of a document, blog post or webpage, typically contains the title, author, etc
• Link- a pathway to another page on the web
• Padding- putting together many posts to get your blog ready to roll out, or to prep for a vacation/time away from writing
• Permalink- the permanent place on the web where you can always find one certain post.
• Platform- software program used to blog.
• Rankings- how well a blog, post, or website performs as far as getting traffic.
• RSS Feed- similar to email subscription above

• SEO- search engine optimization, making your text optimal for the attention of search engines like Google, which helps you get traffic and ranking.
• Title- can be the title of either your blog or of a post.
• Widget- items on the side of your blog like calendar, archive, Adsense. Anything in the side columns.
• WYSIWYG- What You See Is What You Get (if you are posting in WYSIWYG mode, then you are NOT using code. What you type is what is seen on the blog after you publish.)

GIANT BLOGGING TERMS VOCABULARY