Bài tập & Lời giải
1. Circle the correct adjective.
1. Playing volleyball is fun, but it’s tired/tiring.
2. This new computer game is amazed/amazing!
3. I was astonished/astonishing that we won the dance competition
4. ‘I fell off my chair in the middle of a lesson.’ ‘How embarrassed/embarrassing!’
5. My grandma’s stories are always interested/interesting.
6. I read a shocked/shocking report about smoking.
7. I wasn’t surprised/surprising that he was late.
8. I was so annoyed/annoying about your comment!
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2. Complete the text with the correct -ed or -ing adjective formed from the verbs in brackets.
A Long Way Home
Saroo was born in Madhya Pradesh in India. His family were very poor, so when Saroo was just five, he and his brother Guddu found work on trains as cleaners. The job was very (1)_______ (tire) and ONE DAY Saroo fell asleep at the station.
He was so (2)_______ (exhaust) that he slept for hours. When he woke up, Guddu was not there. Saroo was (3)_______ (worry). He looked for his brother, but couldn’t find him. It was very (4)_______ (frighten). After two weeks, the police found Saroo, but he couldn’t tell them where his home was – he was too (5)_______ (confuse).
In the end, the police had to place him with an adoption agency. An Australian family took him to their home and he grew up with them. As an adult, Saroo looked for his hometown in India. It took months, but in the end, he found it. He was (6)_______ (delight) and traveled there at once. When he saw his mother again for the first time in 25 years, it was a very (7)_______ (move) experience.
Newspapers and TV stations became (8)_______ (interest) in Saroo’s (9)_______ (astonish) story and Saroo himself wrote an (10)_______ (excite) book about it in 2012.
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3. Complete the sentences with -ed or -ing adjectives formed from the verbs below.
confuse |
disgust |
excite |
frighten |
move |
1. ‘This milk has got black bits in it.’ ‘How__________!’
2. We all cried at the end of the film - it was so__________!
3. I enjoyed the book, but I was__________about the ending. It didn’t make sense.
4. I love watching football, it’s so__________!
5. I felt__________because it was dark in the house and I was alone.
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4. Read the Vocab boost! box. Choose ONE of the verbs below. Write down the related adjectives and nouns, using a dictionary to help you. Then write example sentences.
amuse | depress | entertain | relax | satisfy |
1. Verb:______________
Example:______________
2. -ed adjective:______________
Example:______________
3. -ing adjective:______________
Example:______________
4. noun:______________
Example:______________