Pronunciation

5 Listen and mark the main stress for eachadjective. Translate them.

1fascinated, fascinating

2 daunted, daunting

3 challenged, challenging

4 petrified, petrifying

5 annoyed, annoying

6 disgusted, disgusting

7 inspired, inspiring

8 worried, worrying

-ED and –ING ADJECTIVES (e.g. worried-worrying)

-ing adjectives	Describe a person, a thing or a situation	We met interesting people. It was a frightening story. I had a relaxing bath.
-ed adjectives	tell us how people feel	I’m interested in museums. They were frightened. He was tired.

6. a) Complete the dialogues with the most appropriate adjective from Ex. 5.

A: Do you like camping?

B: I can honestly say I hate it! I spent a week camping once and every nightI was (1)______because it was so dark and I kept hearing animals. I even found putting up my tent quite (2)______. It’s quite old and one or two of the bits were missing.

A: Are you scared of heights?

B: Well, no actually. I like being high up. I went up in a small airplane a few years ago. I was a little (3)______at first because it was a bit bumpy. But in the end I found the whole experience really (4)______. It made me want to do other things – perhaps even go parachuting one day.

A: How do you feel about eating food you’ve never tried before?

B: I don’t usually mind new vegetables and things but I’m not very keen on eating meat I’ve never tried before. Actually, the other day, a friend of mine persuaded me to try snails. I was (5)______with him because he didn’t tell me what they were. He pretended they were bits of chicken. Well, when I found out, I was nearly sick! They were really (6)______!

A: How would you feel about a job that involved working with animals?

B: I’ve just spent the summer holidays working at a monkey sanctuary and I loved it. You might not think monkeys are very interesting but they’re (7)______when you get to know them. Some things were difficult – like catching them to give them medicine was pretty (8)______, but it was all very rewarding.

b) Listen and check your answers.