Living Abroad: An Intensifying Experience

Living Abroad: An Intensifying Experience
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Living Abroad: An Intensifying Experience

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Learning Objective
At the end of the lesson, you will be better able to use intensifiers to describe your experiences living in other countries.

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Explain the objective clearly to the students and emphasize what they will be able to do by the end of the lesson.
What are Intensifiers?
Intensifiers are adverbs that modify adjectives or other adverbs to make them stronger. For example, 'very', 'extremely', and 'absolutely'.

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Explain what intensifiers are and how they can be used to strengthen descriptions.
Examples of Intensifiers
Examples of intensifiers include: very, extremely, absolutely, totally, completely, utterly, quite, really, so, too, and incredibly.

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Provide a list of common intensifiers to the students.
Using Intensifiers to Describe Living Abroad
Using intensifiers can help you describe your experiences living abroad more vividly. For example, 'Living in Japan was very exciting.' can be intensified to 'Living in Japan was absolutely thrilling!'

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Explain how intensifiers can be used to describe living in another country and give an example.
Positive Intensifiers
Positive intensifiers are used to make positive descriptions even stronger. For example, 'beautiful' can be intensified to 'absolutely beautiful' or 'incredibly beautiful'.

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Explain how positive intensifiers can be used to make positive descriptions even stronger.
Negative Intensifiers
Negative intensifiers are used to make negative descriptions even stronger. For example, 'difficult' can be intensified to 'extremely difficult' or 'totally difficult'.

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Explain how negative intensifiers can be used to make negative descriptions even stronger.
Interactive Exercise: Positive or Negative?
In this exercise, you will be given a selection of adjectives and asked to decide whether they are positive or negative. Then, you will choose an intensifier to make the description even stronger.

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Provide instructions for the interactive exercise, including how to access it and what the students will need to do.
Examples of Positive and Negative Adjectives
Examples of positive adjectives include: beautiful, exciting, fascinating, and wonderful. Examples of negative adjectives include: difficult, frustrating, boring, and disappointing.

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Provide a list of positive and negative adjectives to the students.
Interactive Exercise: Describing Living Abroad
In this exercise, you will be asked to describe your experiences living abroad using intensifiers. You can choose from a selection of positive and negative adjectives to help you.

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Provide instructions for the interactive exercise, including how to access it and what the students will need to do.
Conclusion
Using intensifiers can help you describe your experiences living abroad more vividly. By choosing the right intensifiers, you can make your descriptions even stronger and more impactful.

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Summarize the main points of the lesson and encourage the students to practice using intensifiers in their own writing and speaking.
Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Slide 12 - Open question

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.