Writing: A travel blog

Vinsight Collocations: descriptive adjectives

1Which word in each group is the odd one out? 

• 1sunnychillyrainylively

• 2helpfullongfriendlypolite

• 3beautifulpopularhistorictiring

• 4fantasticawfulexcitingfascinating

Vinsight Collocations: descriptive adjectives

2Match sentences 1–6 to a word in the box. 

MOVE
• sunny
• chilly
• rainy
• lively
• helpful
• long
• friendly
• polite
• beautiful
• popular
• historic
• tiring
• fantastic
• awful
• exciting
• fascinating

• 1They built some of the buildings in this city in 1500. 

• 2The people here are friendly, kind and like giving you information. 

• 3It was a warm summer's day with a blue sky. 

• 4The market was busy and noisy, and lots of things were happening. 

• 5In the morning, it was a little bit cold. 

• 6The bus trip took fifteen hours! 

Vinsight Collocations: descriptive adjectives

3Read Jack's travel blog and answer the questions. 

• 1Which city did Jack visit? 

• 2What did Jack like  and what did he dislike ?

• athe bus trip✓✗ 

  bthe people✓✗ 

  cthe restaurant✓✗ 

  dthe weather✓✗ 

  ethe market✓✗ 

  fthe food✓✗ 

  
  

Last weekend, I took the bus from Uncle Mark's house on the coast to Cape Town. It was a ¹bright, bright day, but the ²boring journey into the city was really boring.

While I was staying at a ³busy hostel in the busy city centre, I visited the city's ⁴old houses and its old buildings and met its ⁵nice people. A nice, kind man gave me directions to Table Mountain. I took a crowded cable car up the mountain to see the ⁶fantastic view of the city. It was really fantastic. It was also a very ⁷quiet place. It was so quiet at the top of the mountain. Then I returned to the city centre and visited a ⁸beautiful market and had lunch in a beautiful restaurant. I loved the food there – it was really tasty!

Vinsight Collocations: descriptive adjectives

4In his blog, Jack uses the adjectives in bold twice. Replace the second use in each pair with one of the words in the box. 

MOVE
• friendly
• amazing
• long
• pretty
• lively
• sunny
• historic
• peaceful

Last weekend, I took the bus from Uncle Mark's house on the coast to Cape Town. It was a ¹bright, bright day,

 

but the ²boring journey into the city was really boring.

While I was staying at a ³busy hostel in the busy city centre,

 

I visited the city's ⁴old houses and its old buildings 

and met its ⁵nice people. A nice, kind man gave me directions to Table Mountain.

 

I took a crowded cable car up the mountain to see the ⁶fantastic view of the city. It was really fantastic.

 

It was also a very ⁷quiet place. It was so quiet at the top of the mountain. 

Then I returned to the city centre and visited a ⁸beautiful market and had lunch in a beautiful restaurant. I loved the food there – it was really tasty!

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