Language skills Extras Explore 11 Saving the world 149 Look at this sentence. The journey of these sculptures of ice from glaciers to ocean is eerily beautiful and utterly terrifying. We could also describe the icebergs using these adverbs. How would they change the meaning? Which expressions from 13a could describe: 1 a dream? 3 a romantic song? 5 a piece of jewellery? 2 a fashion model? 4 a mountain landscape? Add adverbs from the boxes to 1–6. How do they add to the meaning? 1 hot weather 3 ugly apartment blocks 5 a dangerous road 2 a cold wind 4 an intelligent person 6 a successful book Match each pair of adverbs with a sentence. How do the two adverbs in each pair differ in meaning? 1 Unfortunately he is ill in hospital. 2 He remained silent throughout the meeting. 3 We were driving close to the edge of the road. 4 The river looks easy to cross. 5 The crossword was difficult to solve. 6 The streets were quiet. Choose three expressions from 14a and b which describe experiences you have had. In pairs, listen to each other’s experiences and ask questions to find out more. Language focus Adverb / adjective collocations 13 a strangely beautiful breathtakingly beautiful stunningly beautiful strikingly beautiful heart-rendingly beautiful astonishingly beautiful b 14 a bitterly stiflingly notoriously hideously highly wildly b critically / terminally deceptively / relatively impossibly / frustratingly dangerously / terrifyingly eerily / pleasantly obstinately / tactfully Speaking 15 a b Transport Transporting goods and people make up an important part of the service industry. Discuss these questions in class. 1 How are goods transported? Which types of transport do you know? 2 Which types of companies are involved? What services do they offer? 3 What are the advantages and disadvantages of the various means of transport? Transport, particularly by air and road, is one of the worst offenders when it comes to air pollution and climate change. In the EU there are constant attempts to improve the environmental record in this respect. Read the fact file on the next page and find out what the following numbers refer to: 1 5,1 3 70 5 574.8 2 310 million 4 33 6 30,000 Reading 16 17 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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