2021-11-14
15 分钟Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome back to the podcast where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the english language, to help you to improve your conversational English, to help you to improve your business English, to help you to improve your chances and opportunities of getting that job that you really wish for or desire.
So we, we help you with your grammar, pronunciation, phrasal verbs, expressions, vocabulary, everything that you could possibly think of for English.
And later on I'll give you my contact details, should you or somebody you know wish to contact me.
So, what are we going to cover in this particular podcast?
Well, again, in this particular podcast, we're going to talk to you about adjectives, in particular, evaluative adjectives in English.
Evaluative adjectives in English, quite a mouthful, but it means adjectives to evaluate something or to measure something, and we're going to look at it in two aspects, positive evaluations and negative evaluations.
Okay, so, evaluative adjectives in English.
So I'll give you the list of the positive and the negative, and then I go through them, give you some examples.
Hopefully you'll get a better understanding.
So, positive, first rate, spectacular, stunning, clever, witty, and then negative, as you'd expect, the opposite, amateurish, predictable, fake, unconvincing, wooden.
Okay, so let's start with the positive.
When we describe something as first rate or top class, we mean it's really, really good.
So the hotel I went to last week, oh, it was first rate.
I mean, it was a four star hotel, of course, but really the services were first rate.
The room was really wonderful.
It was well furnished.
There was a little living room area where I could sit and work on the table, and there was a very well appointed and presentable en suite bathroom.
So it was really first rate.
Or if you go to a top class restaurant, you see the service.
It was first rate.