Market Leader Elementary Unit 3, including adjective opposites
Choose two problems from the list below, decide who is discussing those problems in a meeting, then roleplay the whole meeting (from greetings to finishing smoothly). Your teacher will tell you if, when and how you can use the adjectives on the next page to help.
Possible topics to discuss problems about
- Arguments/ Disagreements
- Bathroom/ Toilet
- Bugs/ Insects
- Complaints
- Concentrating
- Conference/ Trade fair
- Dangers/ Risks
- Decoration/ Furniture and fittings
- Dirt/ Messiness
- Electronics/ Technology
- English language learning
- Equipment
- Exercise/ Sports
- Food and drink
- Health
- Information
- Lighting
- Meetings/ Online meetings
- Mistake
- Money/ Finances
- Noise
- Paperwork/ Administration
- Presentations
- Relationships between co-workers (= colleagues/ workmates)
- Reorganisation
- Sales
- Skills
- Smoking
- Space
- Staffing
- Stationery
- Stress
- Tasks
- Telephoning
- Temperature
- Time
- Transport/ Travel/ Commuting/ Business trips
- Work spaces
- Working hours/ Overtime
- Work-life balance
Useful adjectives for discussing the problems and solutions
- boring – interesting
- bright – dark
- cheap/ reasonable – expensive/ pricey
- clean – dirty
- clear – confusing
- close/near – far
- dangerous/ risky – safe
- easy – difficult/ tricky/ hard
- flexible – inflexible
- hard – soft
- heavy – light
- high – low
- hot – cold
- late – early
- long – short
- messy/ untidy – tidy/ neat
- noisy/ loud – quiet/ peaceful
- old – new
- young – old
- relaxed – stressed
- relaxing – stressful
- reliable – unreliable
- slow – fast/ quick
- small/ little – big/ large
- up to date – out of date
- warm – cool
- wide – narrow
- wrong – right/ correct
When your teacher stops you, share one solution and see if the class thinks it will work.
Ask about any adjectives above you aren’t sure about, working together as a class to use them to describe problems and/ or solutions each time.
Adjective opposites practice
Without looking above, try to write the opposite of each of the words below. Sometimes more than one answer is possible.
- boring
- bright
- cheap/ reasonable
- clean
- clear
- close/near
- dangerous/ risky
- easy
- flexible
- hard
- heavy
- high
- hot
- late
- long
- messy/ untidy
- noisy/ loud
- old
- young
- relaxed
- relaxing
- reliable
- slow
- small/ little
- up to date
- warm
- wide
- wrong
Check above. Sometimes other answers are possible, so please check if you wrote something different.
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